This CD provides photographs of 145
headstones in the Ravenswood cemetery in November 2003
and includes an index to the 196 names mentioned in
the monumental inscriptions. The index can be searched on
name and year with QFHSdatasearch, with search results
linked to the corresponding photographs for display via a
button on the result panel.
Headstones remaining in the cemetery in
2003 record details of former residents from 1872 to
recent times, with 2001 the date of the most recent burial
recorded on the monumental inscriptions. Though there are
many burials unmarked by a headstone these photographs
provide a valuable insight into the lives of those who
lived there.
Ravenswood, located about 120 kilometres
south-west of Townsville, was founded in 1868 following
the discovery of gold and was an extremely prosperous gold
mining centre with a population of up to 5000. The Hotels
and Publicans Index published by QFHS shows more than 50
hotels in the 1870s. Today it is almost a ghost-town
though it still has many reminders of the past – mullock
heaps, tall chimneys, discarded machinery and the
cemetery.
This CD is an excellent resource for
researching Queensland families.
QFHSdatasearch is a generic interface
designed to search genealogy databases and was developed
by the Queensland Family History Society Inc. This version
features field oriented and keyword searches, Boolean
selection, sorting and wildcard searches
