Stephen Smith - Kingston, Norfolk Island.
S 29° 03.425 E 167° 58.115
58J E 789049 N 6782051
An unusual headstone found among many similar headstones, often engraved with similar inscriptions, in the old cemetery on Quality Row, Norfolk Island.
Waymark Code: WMVGWP
Location: Norfolk Island
Date Posted: 04/18/2017
Views: 6
When the sound of the bell tolling was heard across the island, you knew that someone had died. The bell tolled once for each year of the person’s life. Spanning over 200 years, the Norfolk Island cemetery is one of the most important and unique cemeteries in Australasia.
A walk through the Cemetery will bring to life the people, events and history of Norfolk Island. There are many unusual deaths registered on the headstones, drownings, illness, murders, convict graves, all of them telling a story of life on Norfolk Island many years ago.
This headstone remembers Stephen Smith, free overseer at Norfolk Island who was barbarously murdered by a body of prisoners on 1st July 1846 whilst in the execution of his duty at the Settlement Cookhouse, leaving a wife and three children to lament his loss.
Type of Death Listed: Murder
Website (if available): [Web Link]
Cause of death inscription on headstone: Not listed
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