Susanah 'Susan. Williams (Champion)
Susanah 'Susan. Williams (Champion)
Epitaph
SUSAN WILLIAMS
Buried May 2nd 1883
57 Years
1st Adult Burial
In This Cemetery
Description
Birth date is actually her Christening date in Breage, Cornwall.
Susan married John Williams in Cornwall. They arrived in 1872 on the 'Ballarat'. John is buried at Waikumete
The plaque indicates Susan was the first adult burial at Old Gorge Cemetery on 2 May 1883.
* A plague has been erected on the burial site of 15 month old Cecil Leopold Jackson indicating he was the First Burial in Old Gorge Cemetery, 19 days before her, on 13 April 1883
* By death date only, Hannah Sowry (nee Strother 1837-1879) is the oldest burial at Old Gorge Cemetery. But she was re-interred in 1892, from the original Pinfold Road Cemetery.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35618516/susanah-williams