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Comment by Mahbub Sobhan on December 17, 2011 at 2:38am

Comment by Mahbub Sobhan on December 17, 2011 at 2:31am

Fine Arts Students dis this, I just took the picture. Dec 16 is our[Bangladesh] national victory day.

Comment by Beverley Pohlner on December 17, 2011 at 1:10am

Always good to see other concepts, and thought patterns, thanks for sharing this Mahbub. Did you actually set this up or did some other person have this on display?

Comment by Mahbub Sobhan on December 16, 2011 at 6:40pm

Depicting Flag of Bangladesh in the form of Fine Arts

Comment by Theresa H. on September 20, 2011 at 9:51am

Sorry -  it says "our beloved father" and "our dear mother", not parents.

Comment by Theresa H. on September 20, 2011 at 9:49am

Eerie, the parents outlived all their children it seems. Also - on the left tombstone, it says "our parents" and "our brother", insinuating perhaps that children of the family had it written. But the children on the right tombstone all died earlier. Were there more children, and why weren't they buried at the same site as the rest of their family when their time came?

Comment by Beverley Pohlner on September 20, 2011 at 3:26am

Some information that you might find interesting is that the cemetery covers 42 acres! Why so big I have no idea, there are others graves there with fences around them also.

 Typhoid fever was a common cause of death apparently, and also mining accidents, as this area used to mine silver.

Thanks for all your thoughts guys, I find them very interesting!

Comment by George David Snow on September 19, 2011 at 8:00pm

Additional:  The Parsons son was probably adopted the same way, possibly losing both parents and being taken - in by the Hardings.

Comment by George David Snow on September 19, 2011 at 7:55pm

I feel that the Thomas son was probably adopted, maybe not officially, but taken-in by the Hardings.  From what I've heard, Australia is very much populated with spiders, cassowaries, snakes, and wild boars, along with dingoes.  Maybe these kids were bitten or attacked by any of these inhabitants, especially in the outback of the country, and more normally in the Summer.  Kids are usually outside in the Summer, more so, than the mother who probably worked in the house more than anyone else in the family, hence, less vulnerable to outside dangers of the country life, which would account for her much longer life.  Also, the grave is constructed like one that may have been on a family property or farm, esp. with the fence surrounding it, probably to keep out wildlife or strangers, and designed for more private funerals.

Comment by CameraClicker on September 19, 2011 at 6:56pm

Large family with some of the children surviving their mother.  Child mortality is high.  Curiously almost all of them died during summer, in December and January.  Perhaps this is due to heat or drought?  It is different than here, where disease is a problem during the winter.

 

It is also curious that Charles and Samuel are brothers but they seem to have different last names or they have first and middle names while the others just have given and surnames, were they adopted?

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