Balbarrup Pioneer Cemetery Index

This was the first cemetery in the Manjimup area and it is situated on the east side of the Wilgarrup River on Perup Road, about 7 kilometres from the Manjimup townsite. Legend has it that the cemetery was started thereafter 2 men, who were camped on the site one night, suffocated after having lit a fire in their tent to keep warm. Possibly the earliest burial after the two unknown men was John Giblett Jnr – who died in 1862. The latest recorded burial was for Ethel Thompson (who was a Deeside Muir) in 1979.