Not far from Castlemaine’s Forest Creek Diggings is the Pennyweight Flat Children’s Cemetery. There can be no more stark a reminder of how difficult life would have been for a gold mining family in the nineteenth century than this stark cemetery. Over two hundred children lie buried in tiny graves on a hill of rocky land worthless for mining purposes.
Note how the rocks have been stacked up where the ground has been too rocky to dig a deep grave.
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Now that’s one place I simply couldn’t visit.
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It was very moving. I can’t help but think of my Great Grandmother who lost 9 of her 13 children on the goldfields.
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I know people say, you just have to keep going when things like that happen but I think I’d just lose the will to live.
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Yes I doubt I would have that fortitude.
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How dreadful
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Put life in perspective doesn’t it?
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Most certainly
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Very sad 😔
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Just awful.
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I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this before, but I used to live on the north-west coast of England in a village where there is a church graveyard with the graves of so many people, many children, who drowned or died in accidents on the rocks, it breaks your heart to read them.
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And in those days they probably couldn’t swim yet lived off the sea.
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Indeed.
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I agree. Very sad.
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Most upsetting. My great grandmother lost nine of her thirteen children on the goldfields. Such hard times.
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Indeed they were.
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It certainly puts our minor difficulties into perspective!
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So sad
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So sad
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Very sombering.
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