Local Government
Woodanilling
Region
Great Southern
Orchard Rd SW Woodanilling
Woodanilling
Great Southern
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| Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 18 Mar 2003 | Category 3 | |
The place is significant as it is a burial site - one of a number of lonely graves in the Shire.
The graves are located to the west of the Boyaminning homestead in a fenced area containing jam tree regrowth. The four graves are marked with granite headstones.
The graves are those of Mary (Wontum), Quartermaine, the Aboriginal wife of Elijah Quartermaine and three of their daughters. Four of Elijah and Mary's children died at an early age. The eldest child Phillip was burned to death. His parents were clearing the land and the wind caught the flames of a burning pile of sticks the child was standing by and he was engulfed by flames. (Another son was later named Phillip and he died on the train in 1942). Two girls, Winnie and Lavina, died as babies and another daughter, Meena, was thought to have died of dysentery. She had been grape picking at Trimmings and became ill through eating too many grapes. These three girls were buried on the farm at Boyaminning as was their mother after her death from pneumonia in about 1910. Mary walked everywhere with the girls, into Woodanilling and often to Wagin too. She would do the washing for neighbours for 'two bob' (two shillings). Mary was called 'Wontum' as on her visits to the neighbours she would say "I want um" this or that. Later she often carried a shotgun to shoot a kangaroo or wallaby they may encounter along the way.
| Ref ID No | Ref Name | Ref Source | Ref Date |
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| John Bird; "Round Pool to Woodanilling" pps 22, 27, 243-244 | 1985 | ||
| Maps/Photos 3/4, 3/5, 3/6; John Bird: "Round Pool to Woodanilling" p191 | 1985 |
Historic Site
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| Original Use | MONUMENT\CEMETERY | Grave |
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| OTHER | Other Sub-Theme |
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