Burial register, Normanton
Date Published
: burial records, cemetery sections, Chinese
: Gulf Country (Qld & NT)
: Normanton
: 1945
Burials Normanton
The Chinese population of Normanton and the Gulf region was substantial and significant intermarriage took place, especially with the indigenous people. No marked graves remain at Normanton cemetery (two previously recorded stones could not be found in 2024).
"The burials register (to 2012) records 27 burials between 1887 and 1930 that are identifiable as Chinese. The age of 14 of the deceased is unknown, one was over 80 years, one was in their seventies, three in their sixties, two in their fifties, one in the forties, three in their thirties, and two died at six weeks (Carpentaria Shire Council 2012). The alien section at the rear of the cemetery contains Chinese burials from which two fragmented grave markers were retrieved in 2011, subsequently repaired and returned to site."
Gordon Grimwade, A Grave Situation: Burial Practices among the Chinese Diaspora in Queensland, Australia (ca.1870–1930). International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 28, 295–329 (2024), p.24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-023-00713-7
Tommy Ah Gow was aged 97 when he died in 1955.
For more on Tommy Ah Gow see: Sandi Robb, North Queensland's Chinese family landscape: 1860-1920. PhD Thesis, James Cook University. 2019, Appendix A.
Tommy Ah Gow death record
