Torrens Creek Headstones, Queensland, Australia

Torrens Creek

 Pos S 20°44' 32.40" 
    E 145°01' 50.07"

Torrens Creek is on the main highway between Charters Towers and Hughenden, a small settlement that grew beside a creek the railway engineers had to bridge. The area thereabouts is otherwise mostly cattle and sheep stations.
Today there's merely a cluster of houses and a pub, plus a bright new sign pointing the way to the cemetery, but when one follows the directions it is to become lost in a maze of dirt tracks. What needs to be known is that the cemetery is about a hundred meters inside a grassy field accessed by a gate that gives no hint of its purpose... The cemetery listing shown here is complete in terms of visible headstones.
Collected and collated by Alan Wagener.

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    Surname: Allen                     
First names: Emily Jane
       Born: ca Feb 1885                At: 
       Died: 16 Oct 1887                At:
        Age: 2 years 8 months       Buried: Torrens Creek cemetery, QLD
   Comments: 
    Surname: Allen                     
First names: John Harriss
       Born: ca Aug 1893                At: 
       Died: 30 Nov 1893                At:
        Age: 3 months               Buried: Torrens Creek cemetery, QLD
   Comments: 
    Surname: Bennett                  
First names: Charles H.
       Born: ca Mar 1901                At: 
       Died: 23 Aug 1915                At:
        Age: 14 years 5 months      Buried: Torrens Creek cemetery, QLD
   Comments: Son of Charles & Frances Bennett.
    Surname: Bunt                       
First names: William John
       Born: ca 1902                    At: 
       Died: 6 Dec 1954                 At:
        Age: 52                     Buried: Torrens Creek cemetery, QLD
   Comments: 'My dear husband and our father'.
    Surname: Doherty                  
First names: Anne Isobell
       Born: ca 1883                    At: 
       Died: 23 Apr 1949                At:
        Age: 56                     Buried: Torrens Creek cemetery, QLD
   Comments: 'My dear wife and our mother'.
    Surname: Galliot                  
First names: Louis
       Born: ca 1889                    At: 
       Died: 11 Jan 1922                At:
        Age: 33                     Buried: Torrens Creek cemetery, QLD
   Comments: Beloved husband of Edith Lillian Bunt.
    Surname: Green                     
First names: William Edward
       Born: ca 1916                    At: 
       Died: 16 May 1947                At:
        Age: 31                     Buried: Torrens Creek cemetery, QLD
   Comments: 
    Surname: Leard                     
First names: May Alice
       Born: ca 1899                    At: 
       Died: 6 Jan 1941                 At:
        Age: 42                     Buried: Torrens Creek cemetery, QLD
   Comments: 'Our dear mother'.
    Surname: McNeill                  
First names: Thomas                         Genealogy
       Born: ca 1866                    At: Moynock, Kilrea, N Ireland 
        Arr: 5 Feb 1886                 At: Townsville, on 'Quetta'
       Died: 11 Feb 1913                At:
        Age: 47                      Buried: Torrens Creek cemetery, QLD
   Comments: Spouse of Annie née Dempsey, Special memorial plaque 
             by family members. 
    Surname: Mumford                  
First names: Ernest Edward
       Born: ca Sep 1894                At: 
       Died: 26 Mar 1895                At:
        Age: 1 year six months      Buried: Torrens Creek cemetery, QLD
   Comments: 
    Surname: Redfern                  
First names: Alice Maud
       Born: ca 1879                    At: 
       Died: 22 Dec 1921                At:
        Age: 42                     Buried: Torrens Creek cemetery, QLD
   Comments: 'Erected by her loving husband & family'.
    Surname: Shelly                   
First names: Catherine Ann
       Born: ca Jan 1866                At: 
       Died: 16 Feb 1893                At:
        Age: 27                     Buried: Torrens Creek cemetery, QLD
   Comments: 
    Surname: Shelly                   
First names: Mary
       Born: ca 1854                    At: 
       Died: 20 Nov 1893                At:
        Age: 39                     Buried: Torrens Creek cemetery, QLD
   Comments: 
    Surname: Swendsen                
First names: Anton
       Born: ca 1845                    At: 
       Died: 24 Jun 1920                At:
        Age: 75                     Buried: Torrens Creek cemetery, QLD
   Comments: 'Beloved husband of Catarina'.
    Surname: Williams                
First names: Nell
       Born: ca 1898                    At: 
       Died: 18 Jul 1918                At:
        Age: 20                     Buried: Torrens Creek cemetery, QLD
   Comments: Only daughter of John Sidney and Elizabeth Williams.