Camperdown Cemetery near Newton, NSW, first opened in 1849 but was shown on a city in a plan, dated 1822, as "the new burying- ground".
Camperdown succeeded the Elizabeth Street cemetery and an
older cemetery in George Street that occupied the site of the present Town Hall.
Near the cemetery entrance, lays the remains of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, surveyor and explorer, who died at Carthona, Darling Point, 4th October, 1855.
Also buried at the cemetery are Aboriginal men: Mogo who died on the 5th of October 1850, and. William Perry, who died 25th September 1849. In 1931, their graves were decorated with shells, and
the headstones were
officially unveiled at the Dunbar ceremony on August 22. (
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The "Dunbar" grave in Camperdown cemetery remembers the victims of a tragic maritime disaster, the wreck of the
Dunbar in 1857.
On the night of 20 August 1857, or early in the morning of 21 August 1857, the Dunbar was wrecked near the South Head Signal Sation. There was only one survivor, James Johnson, and about 121 people perished.
The Dunbar funeral had seven hearses, the last
containing the body of Captain Steane, a retired naval officer, guarded by mounted police.
Other notable people buried here are Sir Maurice O'Connell, (d. 1848) Colonel of H.M. 80th Regiment, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales and interestingly, Nicholas Charles Boscha, one-time harpist to Napoleon.
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An 1875 Charles Bayliss photo of St. Stephen's Church in Camperdown, NSW. The cemetery was founded in
1848.
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Another musician, Lewis Henry Lavenu, A.R.A.M., is buried alongside his tutor Bochsa, and his fellow English composer Isaac Nathan. Lavenu died during the grand festival to inaugurate the new Great Hall of the University of Sydney in 1859.
Captain Sir James Everard Home, 2nd Baronet, RN CB FRS (25 October 1798 – 1 November 1853), commanding H.M.S. Calliope, was buried at the Camperdown cemetery. He was a British surgeon.and brother-in-law, of John Hunter.
Eliza Emily Donnithorne, a reclusive eccentric, who lived at 36 King Street, Newtown, is believed to be the inspiration for the character of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' 1861 novel
Great Expectations. Read
here
Bathsheba Ghost, who was matron of Sydney Hospital from 1852 to 1866, died at the hospital on August 12, 1866, and was buried in Camperdown Cemetery.
Paupers were often buried in the north west
corner fronting Federation Road. Read
more
There are so many other well-known names in this cemetery, such as Simon Rood Pittard, the first curator of the Australian Museum, who died in August 1861. And so many more.
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| AN ABORIGINAL'S GRAVE IN THE CAMPERDOWN CEMETERY. In conjunction with theDunbar commemorationSydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), Wednesday 26 August 1931 |
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| WHILE WORKMEN were digging air-raid trenches at the old Camperdown Cemetery , they uncovered a coffin. The men were subsequently taken off the job and the council has ordered the trenches to be filled in. Pill-boxes will be built instead. Camper-down Cemetery has not been used for more than 20 years .Daily Mirror (Sydney, NSW : 1941 - 1955), Wednesday 22 July 1942 |
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| Tribune (Sydney, NSW : 1939 - 1991), Tuesday 25 June 1946, |
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Camperdown Cemetery, Newtown, Sydney, NSW - 1951
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Around Camperdown Cemetery
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| The Cemetery Lodge/The Sextons Lodge, NSW ~ Camperdown A small cottage in the Colonial Neo-Gothic style built in 1848 and located on the grounds of Camperdown Cemetery. |
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| Charles Windeyer Frist Mayor Of Sydney, buried at .Camperdown Cemetery, NSW. |
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| John Leys Foreman Engineer Morts Dock Sydney, buried at Camperdown Cemetery, NSW |
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| Camperdown Cemetery, NSW. |
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| Camperdown Cemetery, Sydney, NSW. The grave of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (Major Mitchell), Surveyor General. |
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