THE GLEN HUNTLY GRAVES

Sunday 18 April 1999 saw a gathering of descendants of Glen Huntly in St Kilda Cemetery.The gathering was almost one hundred years to the very day since the unveiling of the monument in St Kilda Cemetery to the Glen Huntly pioneers.

To quote the inscription on the monument:

On December 13^th 1839 the emigrant ship ' Glen Huntly' left Greenock, Scotland and arrived at Hobsons' Bay on 17^th April 1840. Many of the passengers suffering from fever were landed at the Red Bluff, St Kilda on 24 April 1840. That being the first Quarantine Station in Victoria. A few days later JOHN CRAIG, JAMES MATHERS, GEORGE ARMSTRONG succumbed to the disease and were interred at the Bluff. Owing to the encroachment of the sea their remains were exhumed and removed to the St Kilda Cemetery on 27^th August 1898 by the Board of Public Health

The photograph above shows the graveside service at St Kilda in August 1898 following the removal of the remains of the Glen Huntly pioneers from Point Ormond (as Red Bluff is now known). The existing monument at St Kilda was unveiled on 16 April 1899. The Glen Huntly story is described on our general tour of the cemetery.