Twenty-six graves Dunwich memorial plaque Dr Mitchell's grave Dr Ballow's grave Memorial plaques to Dr Ballow
TWENTy-six graves
Twenty-six crosses mark the approximate resting place of immigrants buried in the historic cemetery at Dunwich, Stradbroke Island. A plaque listing their names stands at one end.
dunwich memorial plaque
A plaque listing names of those who died during the voyage or quarantine of the Emigrant was unveiled at the Dunwich cemetery in 2002. Deceased listed (in approximate chronological order) are:
AT SEA: William Frith 2 May - Diarrhoea Hannah Hallett 24 May - Apoplexy Mary Meara 25 May - Typhus Catherine Slattery 3 June - Diarrhoea Hallett infant 18 June - Diarrhoea Mary Burberow 19 June - 'Decay of nature' Anne Cunningham 3 July - Typhus Mary Waterson 10 July - Typhus James Chapple 15 July - Typhus Ann Gleeson 22 July - Typhus AFTER ENTERING BASS STRAIT Ann Charlton 26 July - Typhus George Hayward 26 July - Typhus Sophia Brimble 28 July - Typhus (Ann/Mary) Connor 29 July - Typhus James Lancaster (seaman) 31 July - Typhus Caroline Loder 3 August - Typhus Fanny Bloxam 5 August - Typhus IN MORETON BAY Euphemia Furphy 8 Aug - Typhus Henry Waterson 10 Aug - Typhus AT ANCHOR AT QUARANTINE STATION Daniel Gorman 13 August - Typhus A transcription of the text on the plaque (with notes) may be found here. |
AT THE QUARANTINE GROUND:
Elizabeth Wade 21 Aug - Drowned Joseph Rowe, 23 Aug - Typhus George Heuston 24 Aug - Typhus Johanna Dwyer 27 Aug - Typhus Joseph Ball 27 Aug - Typhus Elizabeth Brimble 31 Aug - Typhus John Connor 31 Aug - Typhus Henry Roberts, cook 31 Aug -Typhus James Hallett, 3 Sept - Typhus Maria Trowbridge 5 Sept - Typhus Robert Frith (3-6 Sept?) - Typhus Charles Hallett (3-6 Sept?) - Typhus John Hector (3-6 Sept?) - Typhus James Real (3-6 Sept?) - Typhus James Syrett (3-6 Sept?) - Typhus Hester Farmer 10 Sept - Typhus Dr George Mitchell 19 Sept - Typhus Jane Syrett 19 Sept - Typhus Mary Ann Ball 20 Sept - Typhus Henry Hallett 25 Sept - Typhus Thomas Coleman 26 Sept - Typhus Dr Ballow 29 Sept (not on plaque) - Typhus Samuel Brimble 30 Sept - Burns Andrew Brimble 22 Oct- Typhus Baby Canning ? - Typhus? Eliza Cummins ? - Typhus? Mary Anne Salisbury ? - Typhus? Baby Salisbury ? - Typhus? |
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A plaque on the north face of Dr Mitchell's grave reads:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE MITCHELL LATE SURGEON SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SHIP “EMIGRANT,” who well and fearlessly combated for many weeks a deadly malady to which he fell a victim 15th* September 1850 Aged 25 years *Note that he actually died on 19th Sept 1850, not the 15th |
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A plaque on the south face of the grave bears the inscription:
AROUND THIS STONE ARE INTERRED THE MORTAL REMAINS OF TWENTY-SIX IMMIGRANTS, WHO SEEKING IN THIS LAND AN EARTHLY HOME, HAVE FOUND, ELSEWHERE, WE TRUST, A BETTER COUNTRY. |
dr ballow's grave
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Dr David Keith Ballow is buried beside Dr George Mitchell at Dunwich. A plaque on his tomb reads: Sacred to the Memory of DAVID KEITH BALLOW, LATE COLONIAL SURGEON, CORONER OF THE DISTRICT, AND MAGISTRATE OF THE TERRITORY, WHO IN THE DISCHARGE OF HIS DUTY AS SURGEON SUPERINTENDENT OF THE QUARANTINE STATION AT DUNWICH, fell, with many others whose graves are around, a victim to typhus fever. Born at Montrose October 27th, 1804. Died September 29th, 1850. Greater love hath no man that this, that a man lay down his life for his friend—15th chap. St. John, 13th verse. THIS TOMB WAS ERECTED BY HIS AFFECTIONATE WIDOW, MARGARET CAMPBELL BALLOW. |
memorial plaques to dr ballow
By the late 1840s, the Church of England in North Quay was inadequate for Brisbane’s growing congregation. Dr Ballow was on the planning committee for the building of a new church in William St. He did not live to see it completed. After his death in 1850, the congregation had a memorial stone made and installed in the church, presumably in the William St premises, which opened in the early 1850s. When St John’s Cathedral was built in Ann St, Brisbane, the stone was transferred to the basement of St Martin’s, next door. A plaque bearing the same inscription is affixed to the outer wall of Ballow Chambers, Wickham Terrace - one of Brisbane's oldest purpose-built medical buildings, which opened in the 1920s.
Memorial stone held in the basement of St Martin's House
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The text on the plaque reads:
To the Memory of David Keith Ballow, late Colonial Assistant Surgeon, Coroner of the District and a Magistrate of the Territory who, on the arrival in this port of the ship "Emigrant," having malignant typhus fever on board, with which the medical officer of that vessel was seized and subsequently died, nobly undertook the duties of Surgeon Superintendent of the Quarantine Station, at Dunwich, and fell himself a victim. Born at Montrose, Scotland, 17th October, 1804; died, Sept. 29th, 1850. |
Plaque at Ballow Chambers. Photo by Eddie Smith
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Photo by Kerry Raymond, from Wikimedia Creative Commons
