Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Kalbar, Queensland, Australia
By Sez56 on 20-Oct-19. Waypoint GA14108

"To be there for the final tribute that honours a life, There is no higher privilege." - The calling of the Funeral Director, Doug Manning.

Kalbar is the Fassifern’s second-largest town. Many of the early settlers of Kalbar, were German migrants, and it was originally known Engelsberg.  In 1916, after World War One, Engelsberg was renamed Kalbar, when it became common to rename towns with German names. Kalbar is the Aboriginal word for dry or dead trees.  The history of the Kalbar township dates back to 1876 when August Engels is said to have started trading from his home. Around 1900 George Eder built a store and operated as a cabinetmaker and undertaker. "Undertakers in districts which had a German population of over 50% such as Engelsburg supplied both “English and German Coffins” (Figure 13). German-born cabinet maker George Eder arrived in Engelsburg in 1889 when he opened a general store and operated his undertaking business from the rear of the establishment (Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser 3 September 1898:1)  Gabled-lidded coffins had fallen out of use in the United Kingdom by the mid-18th century as they were difficult to stack in a common crypt (e.g. Brickley and Buteux 2006:34). However, gable-lidded coffins remained in use in Europe especially amongst German-speaking populations who traditionally had a preference for a rectangular-shaped coffin standing on four feet"  Funerary consumption in the second half of the 19th century in Brisbane, Queensland by
Hilda Erica Maclean 2015.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McUDFL_k9s0 - History of Kalbar Part 1.

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