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Bowmans Forest Cemetery
Date Published
: Cemetery
: burial records, cemetery sections, Chinese
: Ovens Goldfields
: Bowmans Forest
: 1868
: burial records, cemetery sections, Chinese
: Ovens Goldfields
: Bowmans Forest
: 1868
Bowmans Forest Cemetery
Image Courtesy of: Ren Raven
The other unusual section was the “Chinese and Strangers” who were allocated a spot in the far southern end of the cemetery. Indeed there are 7 Chinese buried here which attest to a long association with this district. Five of the men drown in Ovens River during a flood in 1878 and the others from disease and old age. Four of their tombstones remain in lonely isolation.
Bowmans Forest Cemetery Chinese Section
Image Courtesy of: Ren Raven
Bowmans Forest Cemetery 1868
Image Courtesy of: Bowmans Forest Murmungee History
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