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Captain Thunderbolt's Grave

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The cemetery contains the graves of many local notable families including the Blanch's. After the magisterial inquiry held at Blanch's Inn, Captain Thunderbolt's body was moved to Uralla and he remained unburied for a number of days. On 29 May 1870 his body was identified by William Monckton who had
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The grave is associated with Captain Thunderbolt the bushranger who was buried there on 29 May 1870. The grave adds to the significance of the Captain Thunderbolt Sites because it is the burial place of Captain Thunderbolt who became notorious in his own time and is well known by the Australian
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The grave has significance at a local level. The forensic remains may reveal more information about the way he died and the burial customs of the times. Any controversy surrounding the question of who was actually shot by Constable Walker on 25 May 1870 may be able to be resolved upon forensic
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Thunderbolt's grave adds to the State significance of the Captain Thunderbolt sites for the social significance attached to it by the community. Captain Thunderbolt has captured the minds of the public as a gentleman bushranger type character. Grave sites and the memorialisation of the dead is
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The headstone and grave is surrounded by a picket fence. The grave is located at the southern boundary of the Uralla Cemetery; the location of the grave is signposted.
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The place has a strong or special association with a person, or group of persons, of importance of cultural or natural history of New South Wales's history.
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The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group in New South Wales for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.
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The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales.
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Captain Thunderbolt's Grave was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 20 July 2012 having satisfied the following criteria.
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The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.
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Captain Thunderbolt's Grave adds to the State significance of the Captain Thunderbolt Sites as the final part of Thunderbolt's story.
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ridden with Thunderbolt some years earlier. That afternoon it was taken to be buried in an unmarked grave at Uralla cemetery.
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The marking of the grave is representative of public sentiment surrounding Thunderbolt as a well known historic figure.
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As at 10 April 2012, the condition was assessed as fair. The picket fencing was new but the gravestone shows signs of
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The place is important in demonstrating the course, or pattern, of cultural or natural history in New South Wales.
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In 1914 a gravestone was erected by local residents, the majority of the costs being born by a Mr L. A. Crap.
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published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under
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Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under
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The Captain Thunderbolt Sites - Thunderbolt's Grave; Uralla Old General Cemetery
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Uralla Cemetery was established in the 1850s and used until the 1930s.
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http://us.sydney.com/town/Uralla/Pioneer_Cemetery_Uralla/info.aspx
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and some of the makers information is difficult to discern.
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Location of Captain Thunderbolt's Grave in New South Wales
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The marble headstone has the following inscription:
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The Captain Thunderbolt Sites - Thunderbolt's Grave
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Uralla
Uralla Shire
New South Wales
30°38′30″S 151°29′34″E / 30.6417°S 151.4929°E / -30.6417; 151.4929
New South Wales Heritage Register
Captain Thunderbolt's Grave is located in New South Wales
heritage-listed
Uralla
New England
New South Wales
marble
headstone
bushranger
Captain Thunderbolt
Captain Thunderbolt's Rock
Blanch's Royal Oak Inn
Captain Thunderbolt's Death Site
spalling
New South Wales portal
Captain Thunderbolt's Rock
Blanch's Royal Oak Inn
Captain Thunderbolt's Death Site






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