Cemetery Significance Statement (Part 6)
SMITHFIELD CEMETERY RESERVE (CEM.90 / R.76 / Por.46)
Stewarts Road, Barron, Queensland 4878.
Statement of Cultural Heritage Significance
© 2021 Phoenix
This statement of cultural significance was prepared by Dr Dave Phoenix in 2021 in accordance with the ICOMOS Burra Charter (1999) and the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection’s guidelines for assessing cultural heritage significance.
Part 6: Burials.
- Go to ⇒ Part 1: Description
- Go to ⇒ Part 2: History
- Go to ⇒ Part 3: Graves
- Go to ⇒ Part 4: Land Tenure
- Go to ⇒ Part 5: Governance
- Go to ⇒ Part 7: Images
Registered and unregistered burials at Smithfield:
| 1. George Matthews | Adult male, age unknown Cause of death: suspected crocodile attack Date of death: c.27 March 1877 Queensland Death Certificate: none issued Possibly buried at Smithfield, Date of burial: 2 April 1877 |
| 2. John McGrath | Adult male, age unknown Cause of death: punch to head at Croft’s Hotel Date of death: 2 May 1877 Queensland Death Certificate: none found Unregistered Smithfield burial Date of burial: May 1877 |
| 3. Mary Gernox (Geroux) | 2 year-old female child Cause of death: fever Date of death: 8 May 1877 Queensland Death Certificate: 1877/C325 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: 8 May 1877 |
| 4. Benjamin Simmond | Adult male Cause of death: ‘found dead’ Date of death: 27 May 1877 Queensland Death Certificate: 1877/C327 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: 28 May 1877 |
| 5. James Cummings | 58 year-old male Cause of death: intermittent fever Date of death: 14 July 1877 Queensland Death Certificate: 1877/C329 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: 15 July 1877 |
| 6. Erstine Hingst | Female, approiximately 36 years old Cause of death: fever Date of death: 6 August 1877 Queensland Death Certificate: 1877/C341 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: 7 August 1877 |
| 7. William ‘Bill’ Smith | 55 year-old male Cause of death: suicide by shooting Date of death: 26 Dec 1877 Queensland Death Certificate: 1877/C359 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: 27 December 1877 |
| 8. John McGillon | 32 year-old male Cause of death: drowned in the Barron Date of death: 7 February 1878 Queensland Death Certificate: 1878/C382 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: 11 February 1878 |
| 9. Maria MacDonald | 30 year-old female Cause of death: inflammation of intestines Date of death: 3 May 1878 Queensland Death Certificate: 1878/C435 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: 3 May 1878 |
| 10. William Emmett | 45 year-old male Cause of death: fever Date of death: 13 May 1878 Queensland Death Certificate: 1878/C443 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: 14 May 1878 |
| 11. Christopher Kelly | 6 year-old male child Cause of death: convulsions Date of death: 18 May 1878 Queensland Death Certificate: 1878/C439 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: 19 May 1878 |
| 12. Rebecca Crossland | 11 day-old female baby Cause of death: convulsions Date of death: 16 November 1878 Queensland Death Certificate: 1878/C480 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: 17 November 1878 |
| 13. William James Legren (Le Grande) | 8 day-old male baby Cause of death: convulsions Date of death: 12 November 1883 Queensland Death Certificate: 1883/C900 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: 13 November 1883 |
| 14. Bertha Helena Richter | 8 months 6 days old female infant Cause of death: convulsions Date of death: 5 March 1887 Queensland Death Certificate: 1887/C661 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: 6 March 1887 |
| 15. Kate Barry | Female baby, less than 23 days old Cause of death: unknown Date of death: 15 June 1887 Queensland Death Certificate: 1887/C757 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: June 1887 |
| 16. Beatrice Ryan | 4 month-old female infant Cause of death: unknown Date of death: 19 June 1887 Queensland Death Certificate: 1887/C724 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: June 1887 |
| 17. Frederick Condon | Male, approximately 37 years-old Cause of death: haemorrhaged liver in boxing match at Kamerunga Date of death: 22 June 1887 Queensland Inquest: Item ID: 348743 Queensland Death Certificate: 1887/C708 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: 22 June 1887 |
| 18. John Willoughby | 36 year-old male Cause of death: blasting accident on Range Railway Date of death: 18 July 1887 Queensland Death Certificate: 1887/C723 Unregistered Smithfield burial Date of burial: July 1887 |
| 19. Robert Joseph Sullivan | 1 year 5 month old male infant Cause of death: unknown Date of death: 20 September 1887 Queensland Death Certificate: 1887/C752 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: September 1887 |
| 20. Louis Kopp | 62 year-old male Cause of death: unknown Date of death: 13 July 1893 Queensland Death Certificate: 1893/C811 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: July 1893 |
| 21. Martha Hudson | 49 year-old female Cause of death: intercranial haemorrhage Date of death: 10 January 1915 Queensland Death Certificate: 1915/C178 Burial registered at Smithfield Date of burial: 10 January 1915 |
| Alleged to have been buried at Smithfield: | |
| Miss Murdoch | Date of death: unknown |
| ‘A Chinaman’ | Date of death: after 1915 Cause of death unknown No death certificate found |
| Claimed to have been buried at Smithfield (but buried elsewhere): | |
| Samuel John Ferguson | 46 year-old male Cause of death: Died of fever onboard S.S. Vernon. Date of death: 1 July 1877 Buried at Double Island Beach. |
Go to Cemetery Significance Statement ⇒ Part 7: Images.