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Wednesday 18 April 2012

Colac Cemetery and the Pioneering Women

The Colac Cemetery Trust has offered to open the Colac Cemetery on the weekend of the launch of "Pioneers and Suffragists" August 18 and 19, and to have staff on hand to assist descendants to find the gravesites of the women.
This is a generous gesture and a great opportunity.

We will prepare a list of our women who are buried in the cemetery and the Trust is going to do their best to locate the gravesites prior to the weekend.

Another good reason to come along to the launch and perhaps spend the weekend in Colac, renewing relationships, finding new connections and collecting other family tree information.

A dream day

Lynne Johnston - our new team member - and I just spent the full day at the Public Records Office and uncovered some really great information from Wills and Probate papers.

Hopefully now we will be able to track down some more information on the elusive Sharrow family. There were four in the family that signed the 1891 petition in Colac. A mother, two of her daughters and her daughter in law and yet we haven't been able to track down many people associated with this prominent Colac pioneering family.

Thomas Sharrow, and later his son also Thomas,both undertakers, buried many of the pioneers of the Colac district.  There has to be a photo somewhere.