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The cemetery has a trail that visitors can use to explore its heritage. The first grave on the trail is that of
Saverio Pensabene, a poor local fisherman, who had his boat sequestered during WWII because he was an Italian. He became rich after the war when lobsters became fashionable.
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who died in 1832. Hers is one of the oldest gravestones and was moved here from Alma Street by her family in 1915. In 1930 ninety other gravestones were moved from
Skinner Street to here. The Skinner Street cemetery is now the location of the Oval belonging to the
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was a respected headmaster who was later driven from his job by a mayor. Humble stood against him at the next election but was defeated. He was a member of the
Fremantle Cemetery board and is said to have spent weeks planning his own funeral.
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was a serial killer who was the last person to be hanged in
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was driven to suicide by unfounded speculation about his integrity. He shot himself on horseback, with
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escaped capture a number of times and died in a lunatic asylum. Brian
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created a hardware business. Annie Jane Sheehy was a nurse and midwife whereas Ernest Alexander Ryan was just a robber who married underworld boss
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recipient, who died in New Zealand, were brought for burial in this cemetery, alongside those of his daughter, Judith, who had predeceased him.
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