Samuel Blackmore's grave

Author

Shire of Woodanilling

Place Number

17125

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Location

Katanning-Dumbleyung Rd Glencoe

Location Details

Local Government

Woodanilling

Region

Great Southern

Construction Date

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

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Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type	Status	Date	Grading/Management		More information
Type	Status	Date	Category	Description	More information
Municipal Inventory	Adopted	18 Mar 2003	Category 4	Category 4 Significant but not essential to an understanding of the history of the district: photographically recorded prior to any major redevelopment or demolition.

Statement of Significance

The place is significant as it is a burial site - one of a number of lonely graves in the
Shire.

Physical Description

No evidence of the grave site remains. It is believed to be near the creek below the
homestead site

History

In 1875 Samuel Blackmore, his wife Catherine and children (Mary and Thomas) took a
selection on Yellyellan Gully which they named "Bamboo". When Blackmore died he
was buried on the property.

Samuel Blackmore had arrived in the colony only shortly before his marriage to
Catherine Glynn (an Irish lass) in York in 1848. Blackmore worked as a labourer for
Chas Heal, a farmer at York, till the 1860's. It is said that they travelled to the Yowangup
locality in 1869. Their daughter, Mary Jane (born 1849) grew up helping her father and
from an early age became very proficient at driving the bullock teams. Mary met a
contract worker at Coompatine, Henry Bradbury, and the couple were married about
1874.

While the Blackmores lived at 'Jamboo' and farmed their small selection, Samuel
Blackmore was engaged in the sandalwood trade in his bullock and horse teams
continued to be a familiar sight for many years even after the founding of the township of
Katanning in 1889.

A son, Thomas, had been born in 1859 at York married Stephen Hale's daughter Dora
Agnes at Arthur River in August 1891. However, two years later she was to die in
childbirth, while Thomas himself died relatively young at Katanning in 1907. Thomas,
had shifted from Kojonup to Broomehill with his brother-in-law John Delaney in 1895.
The pair spent the next few years carting supplies to Southern Cross, Kalgoorlie,
Coolgardie and Menzies. His son Stephen served as a stretcher bearer with the 28th
Battalion and was awarded the Military Medal. Lance Corporal Blackmore was the first
Kojonup serviceman to return home with distinction (in September 1918).

References

Ref ID No	Ref Name	Ref Source	Ref Date
	John Bird;" Round Pool to Woodanilling", ps 45, 49, 50, 105, 250, 173, 284		1985

Place Type

Historic Site

Uses

Epoch	General	Specific
Original Use	MONUMENT\CEMETERY	Grave

Historic Themes

General	Specific
OTHER	Other Sub-Theme

Creation Date

06 Oct 2004

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Approved

Last Update

01 Jan 2017

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