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Migration Museum of Dunedin: Lebanese Gravestone

Anthony Coory

 

Researcher: Jeffrey Roger

Anthony Coory migrated in the 1880s from Lebanon to Melbourne and then to Dunedin with his wife Shariffe and daughter Amelia. Like many other Lebanese, Anthony left his homeland at a time of religious tensions and demographic change. He and his wife naturalised in April 1894.

Anthony worked as a merchant at 61 and 107 Walker Street (now Carroll St) selling fancy goods and then as a draper. By 1928 he had moved to 112 Stafford Street where he died on 3 February 1943 at the age of 101.

Anthony is buried in the Catholic section in a family plot along with his wife and daughter (4R plot 9). His headstone reads ‘In Loving Memory of my dear husband’ and below his name is an inscription in Arabic. The other two headstones follow a similar style. Originally between them was an angel and cross, now missing. Around this is a large blue dome, representing the heavens, with the angel as the guide.

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