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Upper Picton Cemetery Multi-Cache

Hidden : 10/10/2016
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Upper Picton Cemetery

 

The cache is Not at the listed coordinates

This is my first multi- cache and no better place to start than a cemetery

The graveyards of a district contain a silent history of its past that give the historian much information.

Upper Picton Cemetery also known as Picton General Cemetery has such a history.

About the year 1828 grants of land were made in the district, a site for a township called on the old plan “ Redbank”, from the reddish colour of the soil in the cuttings. A small portion of that site was set aside by Major H C Antill for a cemetery in 1847. That land was a portion of the present Upper Picton Cemetery.  From 1847 through to the years around 1930 various  denominations  purchased the land for internments.

To find this multi- cache you will need to find the following information from the headstones located only from the top of the cemetery, south to the  Dunlop Place boundary:

A:  The month of James Bollards’s death

B:  The second number in the age of Margaret Bollard

C: The sum total of each number of Jacob Creightons  year of death

D: Age of Lorna Shoobridge when she died

E:  Amelia O’rourke’s  age at death

F: The number of children that Charlotte Blatch had.

 

The cache is located at  S. 34° A. (B-5) (C-5)    E.   150°  (D+4). (E-5) (F-9)

It is in a small bison tube well camouflaged. Pencil required.

After completing your find, why not take a walk around the cemetery to add some history to your conquest.

CONGRATS to National Steel on FTF 16.10.16

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Vgf ABG tneontr ohg vgf pybfr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)