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Hawes Street Burials

Northam, Northam Shire, Western Australia, Australia – *No GPS coordinates

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  • Intersection Hawes and Chidlow Street, Northam, Western australia
    Northam, Northam Shire, Western Australia 6401 Australia

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"In August 1844 a meeting was held to discuss the erection of a Church in Northam and a block was chosen in Hawes Street where it now meets Chidlow Street. The Church did not eventuate and the grounds were subsequently used as a burial ground - and by 1848 six bodies had been interred. However the government did not realise until some time later that this site had been adopted as a burial ground.
A new cemetery was quickly designated on the site of the present railway station, but it was ignored and a further half dozen burials took place on the Hawes Street site.
From 1856 the present cemetery was reserved and burials took place there. A problem then arose in Hawes Street where the graves remained in the line of the road. The authorities were given permission to remove the remains, but it is said that although a sign was erected to that affect, none were removed and the road was made over them."
"In August 1844 a meeting was held to discuss the erection of a Church in Northam and a block was chosen in Hawes Street where it now meets Chidlow Street. The Church did not eventuate and the grounds were subsequently used as a burial ground - and by 1848 six bodies had been interred. However the government did not realise until some time later that this site had been adopted as a burial ground.
A new cemetery was quickly designated on the site of the present railway station, but it was ignored and a further half dozen burials took place on the Hawes Street site.
From 1856 the present cemetery was reserved and burials took place there. A problem then arose in Hawes Street where the graves remained in the line of the road. The authorities were given permission to remove the remains, but it is said that although a sign was erected to that affect, none were removed and the road was made over them."

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