1890 -1892 The first Authorised Official and Registered Cremation in Australia was in 1890 (1), when a Chinese leper named Foo Choo, who had been a patient at the Quarantine Station at Point Nepean, died and was cremated at the Station.(2) However,…
Budna Singh arrived in Western Australia in ca.1908 from Moga District, Ferozepur, Punjab, India where he had three wives, Bhago, Goree and Harro.[1] He worked as a hawker in the mining areas of Western Australia. When hawking in these areas…
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 Akandh 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…
Friends at the cremation of their friend Otto Singh a Sikh who died aged about 76 at Leederville, Western Australia, and was cremated at Riverton, near the Canning River at the Sikh Cremation Cemetery on Thursday the 28 June 1934.…