Deniliquin Cemetery

Deniliquin Cemetery

Lacking amy remaining grave markers the record or burials has been used to create a list.

Deniliquin Cemetery - list of Chinese burials from 1871 to 1957

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Chinese section, Deniliquin Cemetery

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That some at least of the burials were returned to China has been recorded (1886). Community members continued to carry out ceremonies until at least the 1930s.

Source: John E. P. Bushby, Saltbush Country - History of the Deniliquin District, 1980, p.269.

For Deniliquin

Tommy Ah Mon worked with Pelly Ah None at the Butter Factory garden, but later went to the River Street garden with Chun Ah Yin who delivered vegetables around the town in a horse drawn cart. Local residents may remember Tommy delivering his vegetables in a green Chev. van supplied by Burchfields. Tommy went to Melbourne with Sun Yee Lee to Little Bourke Street.

Mow Ong had the Brewery garden for many years. He had the misfortune to fall from a fruit tree on to a tin and severely injure his side, which maimed him for life. He was assisted at the garden by Ah Louey who is remembered for his delivering vegetables around in two baskets suspended on a cane stick across his shoulders.

Source: John E. P. Bushby, Saltbush Country - History of the Deniliquin District, 1980, p.276.

For a description of Fan Tan played in the Deniliquin Chinese camp see:

Source: The Pastoral Times, Saturday 20 May 1882, p.3.

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