Memorial, Weldborough Cemetery
Date Published
: memorials, cemetery sections, Chinese, cemeteries / graves / headstones
: Northeast Tasmania
: Weldborough
: 1906
A memorial to all Chinese buried in the Weldborough cemetery erected by the Chinese community.
Weldborough memorial
By the early 20th century the tin mining villages such as Weldborough had been depopulated but their cemeteries remained. The Chinese community based in Launceston erected this memorial to those buried there and presumably also conducted regular ceremonies during the annual Ching Ming festival.
A notable feature of the memorial is that it refers to Imperial China as "Da Qing Guo" or Land of the Great Qing - the then ruling Manchu dynasty.
The English reads:
THIS STONE HAS BEEN ERECTED BY THE CHINESE AS A PLACE OF WORSHIP OF CONFUCIUS' RELIGION TO THE DEPARTED CHINESE AND THOSE CONNECTED WITH THE CHINESE IN THE WELDBOROUGH CEMETERY
