Local Government
Broome
Region
Kimberley
87 Robinson St Broome
Seafarer's Cemetery
Seamen's Cemetery
Broome
Kimberley
Constructed from 1883
Type | Status | Date | Documents |
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Heritage List | Adopted | 28 Aug 2014 | |
State Register | Registered | 02 Jun 1995 | HCWebsite.Listing+ListingDocument, HCWebsite.Listing+ListingDocument |
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Type | Status | Date | Grading/Management | |
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Category | ||||
Register of the National Estate | Permanent | 18 Apr 1989 | ||
Classified by the National Trust | Classified | 07 Jun 1983 | ||
Aboriginal Heritage Sites Register | Permanent | |||
Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 28 Aug 2014 | Grading A |
Broome Pioneer Cemetery is significant as an important historical record of seafaring and explorer pioneers and associations with Broome from 1883 to present day. The palisades and several headstones are of aesthetic importance for their design characteristics. The cemetery is picturesque on a promontory overlooking Roebuck Bay.
Broome Pioneer Cemetery comprises 11 graves and a number of memorial plots and commemorative sites. The pioneer graves have headstones and two graves have palisade surrounds. Installation of plaques around the site is adhoc. Retained banks of the promontory. Palisades and headstones restored in 2007.
The first graves on the site were of men who had died at sea. The first burial took place in 1883, the same year that Broome was gazetted as a town. Pemberton Walcott (1883), Inspector of Pearl Fisheries, Sub-Collector of Revenue and an Officer of Customs; pearler Matthew Forrest (1884) brother of John and Alexander Forrest and pearler Edward Cokayne Chippindall (1886). The cemetery was gazetted on 20 April 1890. Although there is another public cemetery in Broome, over the years, various members of old Broome families have been buried or their ashes interred at the Pioneer Cemetery and memorials have been erected. During the bombing of Broome by the Japanese on 3 March 1942, between 70 and 100 Dutch refugees from Indonesia died when the fifteen flying-boats they were occupying were sunk. They were buried in a mass grave beside the Pioneer Cemetery and after the war were disinterred for burial elsewhere. A plaque marks the place of the original grave.
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Ref ID No | Ref Name | Ref Source | Ref Date |
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Conservation Management Plan L Gray & I Sauman | 2004 | ||
Broome Historical Society | |||
information provided by Kim Male; Tom Chapple, Broome | The Exciting Years | 1912-1930 |
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No.32 | MI Place No. |
Library Id | Title | Medium | Year Of Publication |
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7101 | Broome pioneer cemetery : conservation management plan. | Heritage Study {Cons'n Plan} | 2004 |
8907 | Broome Pioneer Cemetery. Conservation works : final report. | Conservation works report | 2008 |
Other Built Type
Epoch | General | Specific |
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Present Use | MONUMENT\CEMETERY | Cemetery |
Original Use | MONUMENT\CEMETERY | Cemetery |
General | Specific |
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PEOPLE | Early settlers |
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