Translate Headstones

[pm1306]

Can anyone translate these into English please? Surname, First Name, Date of death, Age.

 

http://austcemindex.com/inscription.php?id=1344315

http://austcemindex.com/inscription.php?id=1344316

 

[Kenny同志]

Some of the characters are so blurred that the only information I can make out is that it is a collective tomb of some friends of the person who erected the headstone in 1896.

 

By the way, the vertical inscription in the middle can be improved as  眾先友之墓.

[Lu]

From right to left:

光緒丙中嵗仲秋書日重?

各先友義塚之墓

？？？？？？敬立

I'm quite sure I made some mistakes in that first line and I can't make much of the last line, it's too blurry.

[skylee]

光緒丙申嵗仲秋吉日重修
各先友義塚之墓
？？？？？仝敬立

[pm1306]

I have uploaded a bigger version of the photos to the above links. It is actually the English translation that I am wanting please.

[Lu]

光緒丙申嵗仲秋吉日重修

各先友義塚之墓

波打[口云]梓里仝敬立

Skylee, does that look correct to you?

I'm not sure how to translate all of it, what I get is:

Reconstructed on the auspicious day of zhongqiu?? in the bingshen year of Emperor Guangxu [1896]

Gravestone erected for my friends

Respectfully erected [????]

Not sure how correct this is.

[skylee]

波打云 should be correct. According to the info on the web, this (or 波打云阜/埠）is how Darwin was called by the local Chinese in the early 20th century.

PS - 仲秋 means mid-autumn. Similarly, A Midsummer Night's Dream = 仲夏夜之夢. https://www.moedict.tw/%E4%BB%B2%E7%A7%8B

[Lu]

So:

Reconstructed on the auspicious day of Mid-Autumn in the bingshen year of Emperor Guangxu [1896]

Gravestone for my friends

Respectfully erected in our hometown of Darwin

No names or dates, unfortunately, but there you have it.

[pm1306]

Thank you very much for that.

That is one of them. I accidentally made the links the same above. The second one is

austcemindex.com/inscription.php?id=1344316

[Lu]

本山

后土之神位

 

Is this all? The last character is partially buried, there might be a little more text below.

[pm1306]

Some more translations to English required please:

 

http://austcemindex.com/inscription.php?id=5349972 

http://austcemindex.com/inscription.php?id=5349974

http://austcemindex.com/inscription.php?id=5349971

[pm1306]

Above link got corrupted.

http://austcemindex.com/inscription.php?id=5349972

http://austcemindex.com/inscription.php?id=5349974

[imron]

Out of curiosity, is there any background or context for why you want these translated?  Providing context certainly makes things more interesting for those helping out with the translations.

[pm1306]

We photograph, transcribe and index Australian cemetery headstones for the benefit of family history researchers.

[Lu]

The second one reads 故床山安私墓 (or perhaps that little stroke is a 之? That would make it 故床山安私之墓).

 

The first one, right to left:

大正六年十二月十二日設

故結城為三郎之墓

行？？？？

 

Not 100% sure of the last two characters of the first line, and the last line I can't see clearly, do you have a better picture?

 

So far I get:

Established on the twelfth day of the twelfth month of the sixth year of Dazheng (12 December 1917, unless it's the lunar calender)

Gravestone of ???

 

Can you tell a bit more about this cemetary and the Chinese community in Darwin? Imron is right, that would make it more interesting.

[pm1306]

I am the editor of the website. I merely index what our contributors provide so unfortunately I cannot add much. All I know is that many Chinese came to Australia in the late 1800's and early 1900's, mainly as a result of gold rushes.

[skylee]

Those links at #12 show tombs with Japanese names.

That little stroke is the katakana "ノ" which indeed means "之“.

[Lu]

Ooh, hence the 三郎 of course. No wonder I couldn't find the name, I was looking for a Chinese name. And that last line I couldn't read is probably also kana then.

So then the first one is:

大正六年十二月十二日設

故結城為三郎之墓

行？？？？

Established on the twelfth day of the twelfth month of the sixth year of 大正 (12 December 1917)

Grave of Yuuki Tamesaburo

[something in Japanese]

Yuuki is the surname, Tamesaburo is the likely pronunciation of the given name, although with Japanese given names you can never be sure.

The second one is:

故床山安私之墓

Grave of Tokoyama 安私

Tokoyama is the surname, I don't know how the given name is pronounced.