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From: Rice-Witzerman <>
Subject: Re: Cemeteries near Hobart
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 21:11:29 +1100
References: <000301c09a55$300b04a0$d2d239cb@Steve.vision.net.au>


Steve Pearsall wrote:

> A few weeks ago Linda Thomas asked about cemeteries where someone who lived
> in Collins St may have been buried in 1923.
> Quite a few people rightly mentioned Cornelian Bay and Queenborough but I
> can also think of a couple of others, although I am not sure when they were
> closed. There was a cemetery where Albuera St Primary School now stands

This was St. George's Burial Ground which closed December 1872.

>(my> old primary school) - ironically I see that the school has now been closed
> as well.
(One of the old buildings has been/is being sold? Otherwise there are
some confused youngsters around - the ones who tell me they are going to
Albuera St. School this year).

> There was also a Church of Scotland Cemetery that is now a
> park in North Hobart - somewhere near Church Street if I remember
> correctly - definitely within fairly easy walking distance of the city
> centre.

This also closed in 1872. Yes, it is in Church St. and some of the
headstones have been retained - most placed around the outside walls and
very weathered and difficult to read.

>There are also small cemeteries scattered throughout Hobart's
> suburbs attached to various churches.

The Hobart City Council published a very good little booklet last year
on this subject:
"A guide to Hobart's historic cemeteries and burial grounds". Gives a
potted history of each of 15 cemeteries since the founding of Hobart.

Vivien

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