Cemeteries of Tasmania Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By CraigRat on 10-Oct-10. Waypoint GA2627

I was doing the Octagon series around the countryside of northwestern Tasmania and I came across this very old cemetery. It was in good condition and most of the graves were well cared for. I met another lady there tended the graves. I took a picture of the gates as they were so well preserved. The Church looks like it is still being used. The cemetery is in the grounds of St. George's Anglican Church and contains graves of pioneer pastoralists from the area. Parsons was a well respected family by the look of the headstones and the gate plaque.

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This Cemeteries is behind a disused church in Hamilton.

Aprox 100 graves with fantastic views.

The oldest one I found was 1875.

#GA319 - 18:20; Moorina Cemetery, MOORINA, Tasmania

I dropped by to collect a cache and check out the Chinese Miner's Memorial nearby. I took a couple of photographs, but didn't realise this locationless cache existed until I sat down to do some logs later on.

This cemetery is well kept and remains in use. There are around four hundred marked graves and potentially many unmarked as well. It services the local area including nearby towns such as Winnaleah and Derby. There are not too many locals living in Moorina these days, with the local golf club providing the numbers on competition days.

The photograph is of the Chinese funerary burner and memorial gravestone, along with a couple of other shots taken on the visit.

More information can be found at http://billiongraves.com/pages/cemeteries/Moorina-Cemetery/151392

TFTC CraigRat

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This cemetery is behind the Glen Huon Uniting Church.
The oldest grave is of a 12 year old boy who died in 1887.
Approx 60 graves, I noticed the high proportion of solders buried here.
Approx 80 plaques for ashes.

This is the cemetery behind the St Marys Church in Snug.
I found a grave dating 1883.
We regularly walk past it after a party to burn off the extra calories.

This is the Tyenna cemetery.

The oldest grave is dated 1909 and it's a boy who died at 12 years of age. It was sad to see the high number of children graves the youngest child only 1 day.

I saw this as I was driving around Sorell today, the Uniting Church Cemetery at Sorell. Thanks for the cache

An old cemetery near Waratah. We found it while looking for a cache. It was very peaceful today but I think it would be a bit spooky at night.

There are about 120 headstones and the oldest one we could actually read was from 1892. A lot of the headstones were impossible to read and quite a few were in pieces.

I happened to catch sight of this cemetery on my way back from another cache today. This is part of a church on the corner of Church st and Beach Road Kingston. The coordinates show it is within the 161 metre range from Red tags log for this locationless, but it is definitely a different graveyard and a different church.

Thanks for the cache Craigrat

We noticed this old cemetery on Bruny Island as we explored. There are pegs for 260 plots but only 74 are actually marked graves. The oldest grave we could find dates to 1899. We noticed there seemed to be a very large number of Dillon family members who were obviously pioneers in this area.

This forgotten grave site was rediscovered not so long ago on Bruny Island. There are only 2 graves here (although a number of pets were also apparently buried too), the earlier one being 1875 and the other 1898. Both are graves of young children whose fathers were lighthouse keepers here. One of the children died from choking on a bit of turnip

This is the cemetery behind St Andrews Uniting Church located in Evandale, Tasmania. Graves here date back to the early 1800s and are in a varying state of repair (or disrepair).

This is an old cemetery in Kingston. Its very run down with a lot of the headstones laying on the ground. Many of them date back to the 1870's.
Its tucked in behind the Anglican Church on the corner of the main street and you wouldn't know it was there unless you went looking.
Thanks for the cache CraigRat

Found this cemetery attached to a lovely little church on the side of the Tamar River. the church was established in the 1830's and there appears to be about 50 graves.

Stopped at a nearby cache and saw this small cemetery = only about 6 graves here the earliest we could read was 1896.

This great little cemetery is in the high side of the street and the graves suround 2 sides of the church The graves start in the late 1880's and there are 50 or 60 graves.

This cemetery in st Helens is the relocation of the C of E cemetery with graves from 1870 to 1894. It is just beside the road way.

When visiting St Helens saw this church cemetery -There are about 18 headstones the earliest from 1877 The church was Saint Stanislaus.

Dunalley Cemetery Dunalley Approx 200 graves with the oldest dating back to 1870.

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Marion Bay cemetery, approximately 45 graves with the oldest dating back to 1878.

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Dead Island - Triabunna. A cemetery used in the 19th century that is only accessable at low tide. Very overgrown and not maintained at all. Headstones are barely readable but the information sign states the graves are dated between 1846-1860. Appproximately 10 gravestones are visible.

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Swansea Cemetery - Swansea. A very well kept cemetery with approx 200 graves dating back to the 1850's. The sadest headstone is that on the grave of the Large children - all 6 of them died in a ship wreck in 1850.

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Looking for a cache while on holiday in Hobart for a few days and happened upon an old cemetery that we didn't even know was there.

It's an old Quaker cemetery and the headstones have all been moved to a row by one of the boundary fences. There are 57 headstones and the oldest one I could find was from 1836.

The park is very well maintained and has a quite spectacular wooden sculpture that has been carved from the remains of a big old pine tree.

Monash Reserve in Invermay is the site of an old Jewish cemetery. There aren't any headstones, but twelve names are listed on the plaque at the front of the reserve. The oldest burial was in 1850 and the most recent in 1893. The reserve is looking a little untidy but probably just needs to be mowed to look a lot better.

Bushy Park Cemetery Tasmania. Visited this cemetery to find the cache - Last stop Red Hills GC1P4G8 it is located overlooking the Derwent River there would be approximately 150 graves in this well maintained cemetery. The earliest gravestone we could find was 1881.
A rainbow appeared while we were there and makes a nice addition to the photo. TFTC

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Catholic Cemetery, Railton, Tasmania
This is a small well kept cemetery of approximately 115 graves. The earliest death rerecorded was that of David John Hayes who died in 1904 although there are a number of unmarked graves which look about the same era or older. Two photos have been added to the Gallery: a general view of the cemetery, and the headstone for David John Hayes. This cemetery has not been logged previously.

On the way to Launceston airport and stopped off in Evandale and had wander through these church grounds. Would be approx 80 graves here and most headstones aren't too bad, but the area is very overgrown.

As usual though, an interesting place to walk around. 1874 was oldest headstone I saw.

TFT Locationless.

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Travelling north along the Midland Highway, we stopped in at an old church for a GC cache, and noticed this very small graveyard which is quite neglected. Only about 10 or so graves here I think, but it is hard to tell. There may be more headstones that have fallen over and are concealed in the weeds. Pretty sad to see it falling into disrepair. TFTC.

The Stanley Burial Ground contains several hundred graves. It opened in 1828 and the oldest headstone we could find was dated 1832. This headstone belongs to Henry Hellyer Esquire, the explorer and surveyor who documented a lot of the north west coast for the Van Diemens Land Company. We also found the headstone for the first independent settlers in the circular head area.

The cemetary is well kept although many of the oldest headstones are unreadable due to weathering and salt damage.

My mother took us to this small cemetary at Rocky Cape. There are 17 graves here and the grounds are a little neglected, although not too bad.

One of the graves here belongs to my great grandmother's sister (Mum calls her Aunty Rose) and another belongs to a young fellow my mother went to school with. He survived the second world war in the navy only to die in a railway accident not long after he returned.

Just got back from Tassie and logging a lot of locationless caches. We walked The Nut and I got a shot over the cemetery from the trail at Stanley. A small cemetery for a small town with some very old graves - we found some going back to the 1830s but couldn't read some of the older looking ones.
It's pretty well kept and I'd say there' be 300 odd headstones there.

We found this small grave yard whilst passing through. Looks like not a sole bothers to check on their forebears.

Well this would be a spooky place at night. The St Lukes Anglican Church cemetery was established in 1823 and in the old section some of the grave sites look like the inhabitants are trying to escape! This section contains maybe 100 graves and some of them are in urgent need of repair - broken or sunken headstones, holes in the formations, headstones unreadable, etc. The grass area is overgrown with weeds, a sad place in a historic town.

The Old Ross Burial Ground is at the top of a wind swept hill on the outskirts of Ross. There are approx 35 headstones in an overgrown paddock, some of the headstones are broken, some have fallen and some are on a serious lean. Most headstones are really hard to read. A sad and lonely place.

St David's Cemetery was Van Diemen's Land first cemetery. It was used from 1804 to 1872 and was superseded by Cornelian Bay Cemetery in 1873. The headstones were falling into disrepair and the ones that were still readable have been moved onto memorial walls in St David's Park next to the Supreme Court building.

The Convict Cemetery in Launceston is a lonely place even though it's on the way to the middle of town. In convict cemeteries the deceased weren't given a headstone to mark their last resting place, but there are 58 inscibed bricks in a row on either side of the path to a lookout area. They list names and dates of death, the length of their sentence and sometimes the name of the ship they were transported on.

There were approx 300 people buried here, including twenty-three who were executed between 1846 and 1873. After 1873 the need for this burial ground had virtually ceased and it fell into disuse.

When I first knew about this cemetery in Burnie in the early 1970's all the headstones had been moved from their original positions into a row against the fence in the park which was uphill from the Guide Hall. The hall was demolished a few years ago to build a highway overpass.

We went to take a photo today only to find that all that remains is a sign giving a brief history of the cemetery. The park is named Coronation Park, it's well kept but no headstones. In 2006 the headstones were removed and became part of the Pioneer Village Museum collection.

The original cemetery was the largest of the three original pioneer cemeteries in Burnie and was used from about 1858 until 1900.

Hi CraigRat

One of my new caches was in a Cemetery, so I thought, great a find while hiding.

Co-ordinates are S 42 52.630 E 147 19.276. St Andrew's Park.

From the sign: This park was originally the Presbyterian Burial Ground associated with St Andrew's (now scots) church. The first burial took place in 1829. The cemetery was transferred to the council and named St Andrew's Park in 1935.

There are about 70 head stones around the park, with various larger memorials in the park. Photos attached.

I have photographed the memorial to John Robertson which is the largest one in the park.

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Impression Bay Cemetery. This area was first established in 1841 as a probation station. It became an invalid depot in the late 1840s to 1850s for prisoners in the worst physical conditions.

In 1857 a ship called Persian sailed into Norfolk Bay with Typhoid ridden Scottish immigrants. Eleven of the passengers are buried here.

There is more information on the sign near the Cemetery and have included a picture of this as well as the cemetery and one of the older graves.

S41° 31.300' E146° 54.620
A quaint little Cemetery out of Launceston on the way to Wesbury. Oldest I could find was 1818. Quiet and peaceful.

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This graveyard is small and solitary and can be found on the road to Roaring Beach, Nubeena, Tasmania. Most of the graves belong to the Stacey family, a name synonomous with the history of the Tasman Peninsula. There are approximately ten recognisable graves here, but a few more may have been desimated with time. The descents of those resting here are still active in the local community and continue on in the family's careers, hobbies and traditions.

This is what remains of Queenborough Cemetery. Most of the headstones and graves were moved to Cornelian Bay in the 1960's. All along Peel Street are a variety of headstones, maybe the oldest or most interesting? I certainly recognised a few of the names of prominant Hobart families, as well as old boys from the nearby school. As an aside, if you checkout the schools staff carpark, you will notice some patches that occur to repair cave-ins after heavy rains. I thought cemeteries could only be redeveloped 100 years after the last burial, but I suppose those rules didn't apply in the 1960's. I wonder if the cave-ins are the reason for the rule now?

Cheers Quilter

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I was hanging out in Richmond today, enjoying the local attractions and secenery when I noticed a GeGnome was in a nearby part of the town. After sneaking off to have a look I was unable to locate the Gnome (which I later discovered I had only just missed).

On the other hand, I had found an old Tasmania Cemetery, which is just as good!

The area is called the Congregational Cememtery and has approximately 20 graves. Most of them were difficult to make out; however one looks like it has been recently restored or replaced (see photos).

This was a fascinating place as it unassumingly sits amongst it's neighbours and it contains significant history without any explanation, the graves are from the period 1848 - 1918. I photographed and interesting one from 1881. A full listing is available at;

http://thegardensfamily.com/cemeteries/Richmond/Congregational/index.htm

Thanks for the interesting find!

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Found this cemetery while looking for another cache and on our way to George Town. The cemetery is on the side of a small hill next to the road, and is well maintained. We did however forget to count the headstones, but having a guess we would say somewhere between 45 and 60. We did manage to find the oldest headstone (that was visible, I would say there are older graves there but no headstones). Janet Walkden was 33 when she passed and was laid to rest in 1905. Another grave with an interesting headstone belongs to Mr and Mrs Ponsonby. Miles De Hayle Ponsonby passed in September 1916 and his wife Martha A.R Ponsonby passed in July 1934 in Melbourne and was buried alongside her husband here in Tasmania. Interestingly the grave was made by Monumental Construction PTY LTD Sculptors and Designers in Sth Melbourne. The cemetery must still be in use as the youngest grave that had a headstone belongs to Winifred Garwood who was 91 and was laid to rest in 2009. Great idea for a cache as both Mr tatts and myself like to wander round some of the cemeteries, and we will keep a look on some of the logs that come through.

Yolla Cemetery.
This was a very tidy Cemetery.
There were approximately 50 headstones there.
A sad but interesting grave was of a little boy who must have been off a farm because there was a John Deere tractor carved on his headstone.

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1) The co-ords of the Grave or Cemetery.
S 42° 08.345 E 147° 50.309

2) An approximate guess of how many graves are in the cemetery and a note about the general condition of the site (Well kept/overgrown etc).
Exactly one grave here. No regular maintenance but gravestone is in quite good condition for its age and area is not overgrown.

3) A photo of the Cemetery
See attached.

4) A note about the oldest grave you could find or perhaps an interesting headstone in the cemetery.
This is the grave of the only person to die at the Long Marsh Dam Convict Probation Station which operated in the early 1840's. The dam was intended for irrigation of farmland but was never completed. The grave's occupant is one Thomas Collins who was killed by a falling stone whilst working on the dam construction.

There is a regular cache nearby.

(but CraigRat knows all this, because he's been there).

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