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Perseverance St
Cossack WA 6720
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Web: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2568127/cossack-cemetery
Cossack contains a small
cemetery comprising separate European and Japanese precincts. The pearling industry of the 19th century was notably dangerous, with many pearlers losing their lives. Those buried in the Japanese
cemetery were mainly divers and others involved with the pearling industry; others, including many Aborigines, were lost at sea. The first interment in the
cemetery is believed to have taken place in 1869, when a man died while walking to Port Walcott in January and was buried there.
At least 41 Europeans and seven Japanese were buried there, with the last interment recorded in 1915. Those buried there include William Shakespeare Hall.