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BUSHY CREEK CEMETERY

Location

Bushy Creek Lane GLENTHOMPSON, Southern Grampians Shire

File Number

691

Level

Stage 2 study complete

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Bushy Creek Cemetery is a typical small, square burial area associated with a homestead. The burials are primarily those of the Beggs family, who have had a long association with Bushy Creek. Many of the graves have stone or granite headstones, surrounded by wrought iron fencing. A number of memorial plantings are included within the cemetery, which are overgrown and in poor condition. Bushy Creek has had a long association with the Beggs family, who retained the property within the family for over 130 years prior to its recent sale outside the family. The cemetery is in overgrown and poor condition, but retains a very high degree of integrity.

How is it significant?
Bushy Creek Cemetery is of historical significance to the Southern Grampians Shire.

Why is it significant?
Bushy Creek Cemetery is of historical significance for its associations with the Beggs family and the early pastoral run, taken up as early as the 1840s by James Kidd. The cemetery is the final resting place of many of influential and important Beggs family through over 130 years. It is of further historical significance as a tangible link to the past, which provides information about a previous way of life.

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