© Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 2014 As stated by Sir Hartley Williams in 1892, "Cremation was perfectly legal and there was no law against it." The only place where cremation was ever made illegal was Japan, where in 1873 it…
Massa Singh the son of Jhanda Singh Chahal was born in the Kaleke, Amritsar, Punjab, India, in 1872. He is believed to have arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1896 at age 25. Massa Singh is recorded as sailing to Adelaide…
https://youtu.be/NNmvhbkfv4Q The first reading of an Akhand Path (a Sikh religious ceremony) in Australia took place on a farm owned by Siva Singh at Benalla, Victoria. It was read for Herman Singh by his son Isar Singh on the 16 December…
Pre 1950 the Common at Lavington, New South Wales, was declared a cemetery and was used to cremate Indians who lived in the area, many of whom had served in the Indian Army under General Roberts. This was not unusual as…
As stated by Sir Hartley Williams in 1892, "Cremation was perfectly legal and there was no law against it." The only place where cremation was ever made illegal was Japan, where in 1873 it was abolished by law, in the…
Extract from: SIKH AND HINDU CREMATIONS IN AUSTRALIA; Putarb Singh Henty and Albury Indian Cemetery by Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 2015. As stated by Sir Hartley Williams in 1892, "Cremation was perfectly legal and there was no law against it." The…
Extract from: SIKH AND HINDU CREMATIONS IN AUSTRALIA...by Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 2015. Putarb Singh aka Purtarb, was an itinerant hawker in Victoria and New South Wales. When he retired from hawking Putarb settled in Henty, New South Wales…
Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan © 2013 Len Kenna was born in Hamilton, Victoria, and as a young boy and he remembers an Indian Hawker, Gunter Singh, a Sikh, who visited his family home in his horse and wagon. Len's mother…