Trail of Death Sherwood, Queensland, Australia
By Youngoldfella on 23-Dec-07. Waypoint GA0951

RIP Knighty.

I contacted the last finder and they have placed this one in a place where I can retrieve it. I am complying with the wishes of the original hider, Knightsy, and now this will be put to rest as per his wishes. Thank you to those of you who kept it mobile. I will recover this one next time I am in Brisbane.

I visited Ellen and she handed me the cache. A lot easier to find here than at the other places I had search for it.

I have a idea where to place it next.

Found in the Brisbane General Cemetery, a great cache!
Now been moved to lie with Ellen (the one we loved) at the Sherwood Anglican Cemetery.
Good luck!

The cache is now visiting with John Donaldson (1841 – 1896) who was a prominent pastoralist and politician.

Mr Donaldson was a member of the Legislative Assembly representing Warrego and later Bulloo and was Postmaster General and Secretary of Public Instruction.

He was also a local director of the Commercial Bank of Australia, a director of the Queensland Deposit Bank and Building Society, a member of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce and president of the Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland. Proud of his descent, he was vice-president of various Scottish societies and was associated with many different sporting organizations. He was a founder and later vice-president of the Queensland Stock Breeders and Graziers Association and a trustee of the United Pastoralists Association.

Mr Donaldson was one of four delegates who represented Queensland at the 1891 National Australasian Convention where he sought free-trade colonies and a conservative constitution. The contributions of Mr Donaldson and his three colleagues towards Federation are commemorated at the Federation Pavilion which is situated not too far from the cache’s present location.

Spotted this cache while planning a trip to another cemetary so we thought we'd grab it and move it along. We found the cache and smuggled it out hoping not to be mistaken for grave robbers.
Sitting in the car we opened the container and discovered its secret - have brought it home to do our homework and will move it along shortly. Found with Jabiru230.

Thanks for the cache!

Rated: for Overall Experience

Have moved the cache to the Hemmant Cemetery.

Now resting next to the family plot of the Laidlaws. Of note, is the commemoration to Arthur Bridgeman Laidlaw who is in fact not buried here at all. He was killed in action on the 9th June 1917 in Messines, Italy.

As per the ADFA record he has no known grave. His name is included on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium.

The Hemmant Cemetary is primarily a lawn cemetery. Only this small section is "traditional". It is close to the sextant's office so you perhaps should time your visit out of hours.

No need to log the coordinates! Have been waiting to grab this one for ages. Went to the Tarampa Pub for Christmas Lunch with the family so the drive home was the chance. Didn't have the notes but remember enough to start looking through this charming little cemetary. Couldn't enjoy the view as the rain was tumbling down. Geobrat found the relevant plaque and Missbehavin swooped on the "cache". Retrieved and will move on in the next few days. Great Christmas Day adventure, thanks for the cache. Cheers, svn07

Rated: for Overall Experience

Well done on moving this cache, but you need to post the new coordinates so people can find it

Moved the cache to a beautiful graveyard in Tallegalla.

It is being closely guarded by Mr Frederick Sidney Cotton.

Sidney Cotton became famous as a pioneer of aerial photograph and as a notorious allied spy who flew daring flights over Nazi Germany before World War II. He numbered among his close friends George Eastman, Ian Fleming and Winston Churchill.

It is said that Mr Cotton is the real life inspiration for the James Bond character in Ian Fleming's novels.

The cemetery can be found on Rosewood-Marburg Road just north of the town of Rosewood (on the hill).

This was my first Cache find EVER and it was sooooo much fun! Top idea for a cache, very interesting and unique.

Cache was very easy to find.

I can safely say that I am now addicted!

Rated: for Overall Experience

We had a look this morning and the cache is resting peacefully next to Mr Stephens.

I looked for it today, but no luck! It looked like that someone else might have been here previously.

Cache is now in South Brisbane Cemetery near Thomas Blacket Stephens grave (1819-1877), newspaper proprietor and politician. Portion 10A Grave Number 2.

You can park on TJ Doyle Memorial Park Dr and walk the last 120m or drive/ride to parking spot 20m from grave at S27 29.920 E153 01.434. The main gates are off Annerley Road.

You can also visit Thomas' son's grave at S27 29.952 E153 01.647 (very close to Annerley Road entrance) and the memorial to the Bogga Road inmates here (S27 29.960 E153 01.497).

Thomas Blackett Stephens was born in England in 1819, moved to Sydney, and arrived in Moreton Bay in 1853. He used to pass along Old Cleveland Road when travelling between the Darling Downs, where he bought wool for the mills in England and Ormiston, where he had a wool scour. In 1857 he bought a block of 94 acres at Stones Corner, and by 1859 he had increased this to five blocks and established a wool scour on Ekibin Creek. He later built a fellmongery and tannery for his son at Essie Street. He built his house, ‘Cumbooquepa' on Stephens Street in South Brisbane, the site of Somerville House.
In 1861 he purchased the Moreton Bay Courier and he remained its proprietor until 1869. In 1859 he became an alderman in the first Brisbane Municipal Council, and in 1862 its second mayor. He served in the Lower House of Queensland Parliament for many years, and also as a minister, and was Colonial Treasurer from 1868. Subsequently, he joined the Legislative Council. He had a variety of other business interests, newspapers, companies and land development. In 1877 he died and was buried at the South Brisbane Cemetery. The Division (later Shire) of Stephens was named after him.

As I approached GZ I was looking at the trees wandering which one was holding the treasure. None of them looked liked they had been severely pruned and the GPSr was leading to the Marconi plot. Ahh now I see what If was referring. Cache was retrieved quickly and I did feel rather guilty as I made a retreat to the car with the cache baggage under my arm. Once home, I realised why a pen was required. Now to find a suitable rsting spot. Thanks Knightsy and Youngoldfella (or is that oldyoungfella). Top cache.

Rated: for Overall Experience

The reports of this caches demise are greatly exaggerated.
I dropped in to say Hi to Mr Marconi this morning. He has been guarding this cache well. The tree that I placed the cache under has been severely pruned (but it is showing signs of recovery). Nevertheless the cache remains exactly where I left it in April

Had no luck with this cache either.

Found Mr Marconi's resting place but couldn't locate the cache.

The Trail of Death has led to the Balmoral Cemetery in Brisbane.
Joseph Cornelius Marconi was born in London in 1876. He was a well known and colourful identity in Brisbane. From about 1910 he made and sold a range of liniments and oils under the "Goanna" brand. Through his skill at marketing he made Goanna Oil famous.
He died in 1922 from injuries recieved in a brawl in Elizabeth St in the city.

Travelling around Logan today and I noticed this historical little cache was nearby
It didn't take long to find Hilda's resting place in this tiny little cemetery with only 10 graves.
The cache was easily spotted as I had seen it once before on Lamb Island
But after heading off to another cemetery to drop it off, I realised that I couldn't fill in the log book !! So I have taken the cache home for the night and will place it out there again tomorrow!!
Watch for it around the Morningside area

I found this cache on Sunday morning while at the Island Time event in Moreton Bay, Brisbane. Apparently there were quite a few people watching this one, but I managed to snag it by happening to be looking at the GCA site at the right time. I think that fact was the best part of my find. Anyhow, it’s now at the Tygum Pioneer Cemetary at the Grave of Hilda Spann. There’s nothing very special about the grave or the person that I could find. If I’d had more time, I may have found a more interesting site. Perhaps the next finder will do a better job. This sure is a fun way to cache.

Yep, I got it. Now my grave undertaking is to plot a new resting place. Stay tuned...

Well we were beaten to this one this morning by those Lat and Long Junkies! We kind of thought, in our innocence, that we wouldn't have too much competition to grab this moveable, BUT we were oh so wrong!

We did manage to spy the cache later in the day when we caught up with (and grumbled at) the 'Lat and Longs'.

Can't wait for our turn! Cheers THENANKS

Well we were beaten to this one this morning by those Lat and Long Junkies! We kind of thought, in our innocence, that we wouldn't have too much competition to grab this moveable, BUT we were oh so wrong!

We did manage to spy the cache later in the day wjen we caught up with (and grumbled at) the Lat and Longs.

Can't wait for our turn!

The cache has been re-hidden today at the grave site of Thomas Lucas, a ticket of leave convict who was one of the first European settlers on the Southern Moreton Bay Islands. He lived on the Islands from 1853 to 1893, when he passed away.

Thomas Lucas lived at Corroboree Point for many years, and also set up as an oyster getter on Karragarra Island. He became a major land owner of Lamb Island in the late 1880s.

His grave lies just above the jetty on Lamb Island, the only known grave on the island. The main road on Lamb Island is named for him.

Found this fun cache today. Took me a while to find it, but when I did it gave me a chuckle for quite a while. Will rehide tomorrow.

Placed by Penguiny roughly 10m from the gravesite of Ellen Thomson, the only woman to be executed in the state of Queensland.

Ellen Thomson became the only woman legally hanged in Queensland. She was sentenced over the murder of her husband, William Thomson, 24 years her senior, after increasingly violent confrontations. She proclaimed her innocence but her young handsome English ex-marine lover, John Harrison, was also convicted for the same crime. They were hanged in Boggo Road jail, Brisbane, and buried in the South Brisbane cemetery at Dutton Park.

Ellen, 11 years of age and her sister Mary, 9, arrived in Australia on the 6th of April 1858 on board the ship "Joshua". The ship's manifest lists their widowed mother Mary Lynch as a native of County Cork, Ireland. They would join her sister residing in Goulburn, N.S.W. During the Palmer River gold rush in the early 1870's, Ellen was known to be in Cooktown, widow of William Wood, and struggling to support her children.

Arriving in Port Douglas about 1878, Ellen commenced work as housekeeper to William Thomson who had selected a farm on the Mossman River. Ellen and Billy Thomson married in November of 1880 after the birth of a daughter, Helen. By 1886 life was difficult. The marriage was strained, the children sent away.

The friendship of Ellen with a young marine deserter on the adjoining "Bonnie Doon" selection caused conflict. That conflict would explode into murder.

After being tried in Port Douglas, Ellen Thomson and John Harrison were transferred to Boggo Road Gaol, Brisbane; and on the 13th of June 1887 were executed by hanging.

On the eve of execution, Harrison confessed he alone shot and killed William Thomson in self-defence. The admission came too late - the double execution proceeded.

On 14 June 1887, the Brisbane Courier newspaper described her as a "pitifully wicked woman" and gave an account of the hanging. The journalist wrote that "in every man's mind was the notion that whether the death penalty be right or not, hanging is a barbarous and a brutal thing".

After the executions, so-called phrenological examinations were performed which were claimed to reveal "in the woman combativeness and destructiveness ... both large, the domestic affections ... fairly full, the moral propensities small, and the sexual love amativeness, exceedingly largeâ€. A similar examination was performed on Harrison. The same newspaper reported that "Judging from this, it would seem that the woman was the moving spirit in the plot, and that her passion for Harrison inspired her. She was active cunning and masterful ... Harrison, on the contrary, cared for nothing but himself, and wanted Old Thomson's (the victim's) money far more than he did old Thompson's wife."

The name of Ellen Thomson was written into history as the only woman ever hanged in Queensland.

TNLNSL. Thanks for the cache, Knightsy. It turned out to be interesting learning experience - got to learn a bit of Queensland's history, including the fact that it was the first government in the British Empire to abolish capital punishment.

This is what I love about caching - you get to see interesting things and learn stuff that you otherwise wouldn't have seen or learnt if you hadn't gotten up off the couch.

Found by Penguiny and family at 1150hrs. Nice easy find for Penguiny after watching Mrs Penguiny wander around the cemetery for ages, eventually coming up empty-handed. And she calls me a blindy-eye...

Will move on as soon as I can find another gravesite and do some homework.

TNLNSL. Thanks for the cache - great cache container!

John Anstead was born in Devon in England in 1826. He arrived in Brisbane in 1858 and settled in the area near Mt Crosby Road. John worked as a timbergetter. He died in 1893. Unfortunately his grave was wrecked so the cache is wresting with one of the family members. The coordinates are to one of the families graves to get you on the right track. Good luck on the journey.

Well this one would have to be the best hiding cache I have found to date. It was a little tricky to find but once I clicked to what I might be looking for found it easily. I will send it on it merry way in the next couple of days.

Thanks Knightsy for the great cache.