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Toorbul Historic Cemetery
Caboolture Shire, Queensland, Australia

Submitted by Judith Dickson, Jun 10, 2007 [judy_dickson@brisnet.org.au]. Total records = 13.

The cemetery is located off Pumicestone Road, Toorbul. Turn off Pumicestone Road into the Pony Club entry. The cemetery is down this driveway on your right.

The following information is given on a sign at the cemetery:
“This area was set aside as a cemetery reserve on 30 May 1891, following a request to the State government from the local Toorbul Community. Members of the local community became trustees for the reserve until 1978, when the reserve was placed under the jurisdiction of the Caboolture Shire Council.

The cemetery contains thirteen graves, although only two graves are now visible. The first burial here was as early as 1879. Graves contained in the Toorbul Cemetery Reserve belong to members of the early European families who settled in the area. Descendents of these families still reside within the Caboolture Shire.”

The sign goes on to list those buried at the cemetery (reproduced here in alphabetical order). Those marked with an “*” still have a visible memorial.

- Judith Dickson

Bonney, Ernest, d. 30 Jan 1886, aged 5 minutes
Bonney, Walter Herbert, d. 26 Jan 1895, aged 5mths and 13days
Carnegie, Helen, d. 8 Sep 1913, aged 74yrs, s/w John Carnegie (husband)*
Carnegie, John, d. 24 Sep 1903, aged 65yrs, s/w Helen Carnegie (wife)*
Freeman, William, d. 5 July 1911, aged 85yrs
Freemantle, Rosina Phyllis, d. 29 Jun 1899, aged 1yr 4mths
Furlong, Thomas, d. 12 Aug 1897, aged 76yrs 11mths
Marren, David, d. 23 May 1883, aged 9weeks
Pieper, Otto, d. 6 Nov 1896, aged 1yr 3mths
Sass, Henry, 14 Apr 1879, aged 27yrs
Simpson, Albert Edward, d. 6 Mar 1887, aged 4yrs
Simpson, Edwin, d. 1 Apr 1898, aged 40yrs 1mth
Volz, Mary Ethel, d. 4 Aug 1903, aged 1yr 6mths