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Established | 1862 |
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Country | Australia |
Coordinates | 34°34′41″S138°44′30″E / 34.57799°S 138.74172°E Coordinates: 34°34′41″S138°44′30″E / 34.57799°S 138.74172°E |
Website | Town of Gawler: Cemeteries – Willaston |
Find a Grave | Willaston General Cemetery |
Footnotes |
The Willaston General Cemetery on Dawkins Avenue, Willaston, South Australia opened on 1 August 1866. [1] to replace the original burial ground on Murray Street, Gawler, South Australia was made in the mid 1850s, [2] with the headstones from the original cemetery moved to the entrance. [1]
Interments at the cemetery include: [3]
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Ephraim Henry Coombe was a South Australian newspaper editor and politician. He was editor of the Bunyip at Gawler from 1890 to 1914. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1901 to 1912 and 1915 to 1917, representing the electorate of Barossa. A long-time liberal in the House, he refused to join the united conservative Liberal Union in 1910, and was defeated in 1912 recontesting as an independent. Following his defeat, he edited the Daily Herald from 1914 to 1916. He was re-elected to the House for Barossa in 1915, having joined the Labor Party, but died in office in 1917.
John McKinlay was a Scottish-born Australian explorer and cattle grazier, and leader of the South Australian Burke Relief Expedition - one of the search parties for the Burke and Wills expedition. McKinlay was also a member of Charles Sturt's Central Exploring Expedition from 1844-1845. The town of McKinlay in north western Queensland is named after him.
The Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association, more commonly referred to as the BL&GFA, is an Australian rules football competition based in the Barossa Valley, Gawler Region and Light Region of South Australia, Australia. Just 42 kilometres north of the state capital of Adelaide, the BL&GFA is an affiliated member of the South Australian National Football League. In 2022, Nuriootpa secured the premiership cup for a record equalling eighth time. The current president of the League is Mick Brien and the major sponsor of the league is the Grant Burge Winery.
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Walter Duffield was a pastoralist and politician in colonial South Australia, Treasurer of South Australia 1865 to 1867.
Gawler was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1938 to 1970.
James Martin was an industrialist and politician in the early days of the Colony of South Australia.
Leslie Samuel Duncan was a newspaper editor and politician in the State of South Australia.
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Job Harris, was a store keeper, post master, hotelier, gold miner and South Australian prominently associated with the discovery of gold at the Barossa Goldfields, the largest gold rush in the colony of South Australia.
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The Hundred of Mudla Wirra is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the northern Adelaide Plains of South Australia, first proclaimed in 1847. The hundred is bounded on the north by the Light River and on the south by the Gawler River.