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Rookwood Cemetery

August 23, 2023

Not to be confused with Brookwood Cemetery.

Rookwood Cemetery (officially named Rookwood Necropolis) is a heritage-listed cemetery in Rookwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere[1] and is the world's largest remaining operating cemetery from the Victorian era.[2] It is close to Lidcombe railway station about 17 kilometres (11 mi) west of the Sydney central business district. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.[3]

Rookwood Cemetery
Rookwood Necropolis entrance
Details
Established1868
Location
Sydney, New South Wales
CountryAustralia
Coordinates33°52′27″S 151°03′17″E / 33.8741667°S 151.0547222°E / -33.8741667; 151.0547222
TypePublic
Size286 hectares
No. of interments1 million
Websitewww.rookwoodcemetery.com.au
Find a GraveRookwood Cemetery
Celtic cross, Rookwood

Description

Rookwood Cemetery is divided into denominational and operational areas with individual offices, staff, and equipment to run different parts of the entire area. The cemetery is now managed by three trusts. Rookwood Necropolis Land Manager are the custodians of Rookwood on behalf of the NSW Government. The two denominational trusts are responsible for the care and maintenance of a number of burial sections catering to various ethnic and cultural groups within the community. Those trusts are: Rookwood General Cemeteries Reserve Land Manager (Rookwood General Cemetery) and the Catholic Cemeteries and Crematoria. The NSW Cremation Company, which founded and operates The Rookwood Memorial Gardens Crematorium, is the oldest operating crematorium in Australia. The NSW Cremation Company is the only private company operating a 'cemetery' section within the Necropolis grounds. Today the company is part of the InvoCare company.

Rookwood also contains a number of memorial shrines including those dedicated to victims of The Holocaust and to members of the merchant marines killed in wartime. The Sydney War Cemetery is located in the eastern section of the Necropolis. The Circle of Love is a shrine dedicated to stillborn children or those who died in young infancy.

There are 915,000 people (figures as at 31 December 2014) that have been buried and cremated at Rookwood, which covers an area of 314 hectares (780 acres).[4] The "Friends of Rookwood Inc" is a voluntary organisation dedicated to preserving the site. As the largest Victorian era cemetery still in operation in the world, Rookwood is of significant national and historical importance.

Some older sections of Rookwood are overgrown with a riot of plants, early horticultural plants, some now large trees or groves, as well as an interesting array of remnant indigenous flora. This results in quite an eclectic mix of flora to be found within the necropolis, including endangered native species such as Downy wattle and small leaved Dillwynia (Dillwynia parvifolia).[5]

The Serpentine Canal within the Rookwood General Cemeteries Reserve Land Manager was restored in recent years, repairing and replacing ornamentation, landscaping and vegetation over 31 hectares (77 acres) of the cemetery.

History

In 1819, Governor Lachlan Macquarie established Sydney's main burial ground near the town's brickworks. By the 1840s, the Devonshire Street Cemetery was close to being full so another larger site was needed. A location on the Sydney Common was chosen in 1845, but abandoned in 1859 without ever being used due to complaints from local residents and churches.[6] In Australia, as in Europe, there was an increasing trend to move burial sites outside of the cities for practical, hygienic and other more aesthetic purposes. With a railway line having been completed to Parramatta in 1856, it was decided to locate the new cemetery at a point on the line. Several sites were surveyed and found to be inappropriate. However, in 1862 the government purchased 80 hectares of land at Haslem's Creek from the estate of Edward Cohen. Cohen's land had previously formed part of a larger parcel known as "Hyde Park" that had been given to the magistrate and parliamentarian Henry Grattan Douglass in 1833 and subsequently leased out. The site was approved due to its relative isolation and proximity to the railway line.

The cemetery was then divided into sections for the various denominations according to their numbers in the 1861 census. The Church of England section was 21 hectares, the Catholic Church was allocated 14 hectares and a non-denominational area of 23 hectares was also established. Other denominations allocated land in the original 200 acres (80 hectares) were Jews, Independents (Congregationalists), Presbyterians and Wesleyans. The Necropolis Act of 1867 came into force on 1 January 1868 formally dedicating the cemetery and establishing cemetery trusts.[7] The first burial in the cemetery, reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, was a pauper, 18-year-old John Whalan, buried on 5 January 1867. This burial was not recorded in the burial register. The first official burial was recorded in the Roman Catholic area: a 14-month-old toddler, Catherine McMullen, on 7 January 1867.[8]

By 1879, more land was needed and the remaining 233 hectares of the former "Hyde Park" were then purchased. By the 1890s the cemetery was home to several buildings including the St Michael the Archangel Chapel and various cottages for section managers and sextons.

Originally known simply as the Necropolis (Koine Greek meaning "city of the dead"), local residents lobbied officials to have the name of their village changed from Haslem's Creek due to its association with the cemetery. In 1879, the villagers got their wish and the area's name was changed to Rookwood; however, before long, the Necropolis was also being referred to by that name. The settlement of Rookwood changed its name in 1913 to Lidcombe, as a blend of two mayors' names, Lidbury and Larcombe (Larcombe was also a monumental stonemason whose business exists to this day). The cemetery retained the name Rookwood.

The name Rookwood is most likely an accidental or deliberate corruption of the name Brookwood Cemetery and its associated railway station. At the time of Rookwood's opening, Brookwood Cemetery, located in Brookwood, Surrey, England, was one of the largest cemeteries in the world. It is less likely that, as claimed by some sources, Rookwood was named after William Harrison Ainsworth's novel Rookwood, written in 1834.[9]

Railway line

Main article: Rookwood Cemetery railway line
 
Haslem's Creek Cemetery station c.1865

Rookwood was served by a rail spur from the main line from 1867 until 1948. Mortuary stations served each of the three sections of the necropolis, with a fourth at the main junction and a fifth on Regent Street adjacent to Central station. The railway line construction began in November 1864 and from 1 January 1865, trains began their run into the cemetery. It stopped at prearranged stations on the journey from central Sydney in order to pick up mourners and coffins. Trains ran at 9.30am and 3pm. The trains that carried the mourners were known as 'unimproved Redferns'[10] There were two types of Hearse carriages used for the procession. One consisted of a four-wheeled van that carried up to 10 coffins on its upper and lower shelves. Each of these shelves was designed so it could open onto the platform. There were also eight-wheeled vans that could hold 30 coffins. Both of these vehicles were attached the back of the train for transporting to the cemetery. At the terminus inside the cemetery the coffins were unloaded using 'wheeled hand-propelled litters'[11] The rail line was used to convey funeral parties to Rookwood until 1948 when the expanded use of processions by road made it obsolete. The stations were offered to the Joint Committee of Necropolis Trustees for the price of £1 but due to maintenance costs the offer was rejected and the platforms within the cemetery were demolished. Cemetery Station No. 1[9] at the head of the rail spur was sold to Reverend Buckle for £100 in 1951 and was moved to Canberra in 1957 to become the All Saints Church, Canberra.[12]

Cultural references

Rookwood Cemetery gave rise to the phrase "crook as Rookwood", meaning chronically ill, as "crook" is Australian slang for being unwell. A novel by Chris Nyst published in 2005 uses the phrase as its title.[13]

Notable interments

Further information: Category:Burials at Rookwood Cemetery

War graves

As at May 2020, Rookwood Necropolis contains the graves of a total 704 Commonwealth service personnel that are registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, 435 from World War I and 274 from World War II, besides three Dutch war graves.[15] The commission also erected a memorial to 132 Commonwealth service personnel of World War II who were cremated at Rookwood Crematorium and whose ashes remain here.[16]

Four Japanese Imperial Navy crewmen of midget submarines M-14 and M-21 who died in the World War II Attack on Sydney Harbour during 31 May–8 June 1942 were cremated with naval honours at Rookwood Cemetery.[17] The ashes were returned to Japan later that year.[18]

Sydney War Cemetery

Within the grounds of Rookwood Cemetery is enclosed the CWGC's Sydney War Cemetery, whose entrance is on the west side on the necropolis railway. It was established in 1942 during World War II for service personnel and there are now 732 buried or commemorated by name here. Most of those buried here died at the Concord Military Hospital in Sydney. The British war graves within the cemetery are of servicemen who died as prisoners of war in Japanese hands and had been cremated; after the war, their ashes were brought to Sydney and buried here. Here is also buried a civilian employee of the Admiralty and there is one French war grave.[19]

Within the entrance building is the New South Wales Cremation Memorial, which commemorates 199 service personnel of World War II who were cremated within the state of New South Wales and whose ashes were subsequently scattered or buried at places where commemoration by a CWGC memorial was not possible.[19]

Within the cemetery stands the Sydney Memorial to almost 750 personnel of the Australian Army, Royal Australian Air Force and Australian Merchant Navy who died in World War II in the eastern and southern regions of Australia and waters south of 20 degrees Latitude who have no known grave.[19]

Chapels

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    St Michael the Archangel Catholic Chapel

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    Anglican "All Souls" Chapel

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    Mausoleum of the Resurrection Catholic Chapel

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    Mary, Mother of Mercy Catholic Chapel

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    Sacred Heart Chapel Catholic Chapel

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    St Athanasios Greek Orthodox Church

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    Chinese Temple

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    Rookwood Islamic Monument

Monuments and memorials

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    Quong Sin Tong Shrine

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    Armenian Memorial

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    Russian Memorial

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    Ukrainian Catholic Priest Vault

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    Crown of Thorns Altar

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    Jewish Memorial

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    Garden of Remembrance

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    Garden of Remembrance

Graves and mausoleums

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    Graves overgrown with Agave americana, Araucaria spp. in background

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    Sandstone memorial

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    Sandstone monuments

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    Family Vault

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    John Paul Family Vault

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    Frazer Mausoleum

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    Grave of Premier of NSW Jack Lang

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    Family grave of NSW Premier, Joseph Cahill

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    Frazer Mausoleum

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    A small statue near a grave.

Buildings

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    The Rookwood Memorial Gardens Crematorium

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    Independent Office

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    Elephant House

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    Rotunda

References

  1. ^ "About Rookwood General Cemeteries Reserve Trust". rookwoodcemetery.com.au. from the original on 12 February 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  2. ^ Lewis, Wendy (2017). Celebrating 150 years of Rookwood Catholic cemetery. Captain Honey. p. 3. ISBN 978-0646972893.
  3. ^ "Rookwood Cemetery and Necropolis". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. H00718. Retrieved 1 November 2018.   Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence.
  4. ^ (PDF). NSW Department of Primary Industry. March 2013. p. 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  5. ^ Lewis, Wendy (2017). Celebrating 150 years of Rookwood Catholic cemetery. Captain Honey. p. 139. ISBN 978-0646972893.
  6. ^ Murray, Lisa (2016). Sydney Cemeteries: A Field Guide. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing. pp. 14–15, 50–54. ISBN 978-1742234489.
  7. ^ New South Wales Legislation (23 December 1867), The Necropolis Act of 1867 (PDF), retrieved 29 May 2019
  8. ^ Weston, David A. (1989). The Sleeping City: The Story of Rookwood Necropolis. Sydney: Society of Australian Genealogists and Hale & Iremonger. p. 15. ISBN 0868064904.
  9. ^ a b State Rail Authority of New South Wales Archives Section, How & Why of Station Names: meanings and origins..., Second Edition, 1982, State Rail Authority of New South Wales
  10. ^ Friends of Rookwood (2002) A Rookwood Ramble (book). A short self guided walking tour, NSW.
  11. ^ Ochert, M.S. (1998) The Mortuary Station to Rookwood in Locality, 9 (2) pp. 23–26.
  12. ^ . Archived from the original on 7 September 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  13. ^ . 3 January 2008. Archived from the original on 3 January 2008. Retrieved 11 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  14. ^ "The Sydney Magazine", Sydney Morning Herald, 28 February 1908, p. 72
  15. ^ Rookwod Necropolis, Sydney 2 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine CWGC Cemetery Report, Rookwood Necropolis.
  16. ^ Rookwood Crematorium, Sydney 9 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine CWGC Cemetery Report, Rookwood Crematorium.
  17. ^ Gill, George Hermon (1968). Australia in the War of 1939–1945, Series 2, Volume II: Royal Australian Navy 1942–1945. Australian War Memorial. p. 72. ISBN 0002174804.
  18. ^ Jenkins, David (1992). Battle Surface! Japan's Submarine War Against Australia, 1942–44. Random House Australia. pp. 232–235. ISBN 0091826381.
  19. ^ a b c Sydney War Cemetery 2 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine CWGC Cemetery Report, Sydney War Cemetery.

External links

 
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Not to be confused with Brookwood Cemetery Rookwood Cemetery officially named Rookwood Necropolis is a heritage listed cemetery in Rookwood Sydney New South Wales Australia It is the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere 1 and is the world s largest remaining operating cemetery from the Victorian era 2 It is close to Lidcombe railway station about 17 kilometres 11 mi west of the Sydney central business district It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 3 Rookwood CemeteryRookwood Necropolis entranceDetailsEstablished1868LocationSydney New South WalesCountryAustraliaCoordinates33 52 27 S 151 03 17 E 33 8741667 S 151 0547222 E 33 8741667 151 0547222TypePublicSize286 hectaresNo of interments1 millionWebsitewww wbr rookwoodcemetery wbr com wbr auFind a GraveRookwood CemeteryCeltic cross Rookwood Contents 1 Description 2 History 3 Railway line 4 Cultural references 5 Notable interments 6 War graves 6 1 Sydney War Cemetery 7 Chapels 8 Monuments and memorials 9 Graves and mausoleums 10 Buildings 11 References 12 External linksDescription EditRookwood Cemetery is divided into denominational and operational areas with individual offices staff and equipment to run different parts of the entire area The cemetery is now managed by three trusts Rookwood Necropolis Land Manager are the custodians of Rookwood on behalf of the NSW Government The two denominational trusts are responsible for the care and maintenance of a number of burial sections catering to various ethnic and cultural groups within the community Those trusts are Rookwood General Cemeteries Reserve Land Manager Rookwood General Cemetery and the Catholic Cemeteries and Crematoria The NSW Cremation Company which founded and operates The Rookwood Memorial Gardens Crematorium is the oldest operating crematorium in Australia The NSW Cremation Company is the only private company operating a cemetery section within the Necropolis grounds Today the company is part of the InvoCare company Rookwood also contains a number of memorial shrines including those dedicated to victims of The Holocaust and to members of the merchant marines killed in wartime The Sydney War Cemetery is located in the eastern section of the Necropolis The Circle of Love is a shrine dedicated to stillborn children or those who died in young infancy There are 915 000 people figures as at 31 December 2014 that have been buried and cremated at Rookwood which covers an area of 314 hectares 780 acres 4 The Friends of Rookwood Inc is a voluntary organisation dedicated to preserving the site As the largest Victorian era cemetery still in operation in the world Rookwood is of significant national and historical importance Some older sections of Rookwood are overgrown with a riot of plants early horticultural plants some now large trees or groves as well as an interesting array of remnant indigenous flora This results in quite an eclectic mix of flora to be found within the necropolis including endangered native species such as Downy wattle and small leaved Dillwynia Dillwynia parvifolia 5 The Serpentine Canal within the Rookwood General Cemeteries Reserve Land Manager was restored in recent years repairing and replacing ornamentation landscaping and vegetation over 31 hectares 77 acres of the cemetery History EditIn 1819 Governor Lachlan Macquarie established Sydney s main burial ground near the town s brickworks By the 1840s the Devonshire Street Cemetery was close to being full so another larger site was needed A location on the Sydney Common was chosen in 1845 but abandoned in 1859 without ever being used due to complaints from local residents and churches 6 In Australia as in Europe there was an increasing trend to move burial sites outside of the cities for practical hygienic and other more aesthetic purposes With a railway line having been completed to Parramatta in 1856 it was decided to locate the new cemetery at a point on the line Several sites were surveyed and found to be inappropriate However in 1862 the government purchased 80 hectares of land at Haslem s Creek from the estate of Edward Cohen Cohen s land had previously formed part of a larger parcel known as Hyde Park that had been given to the magistrate and parliamentarian Henry Grattan Douglass in 1833 and subsequently leased out The site was approved due to its relative isolation and proximity to the railway line The cemetery was then divided into sections for the various denominations according to their numbers in the 1861 census The Church of England section was 21 hectares the Catholic Church was allocated 14 hectares and a non denominational area of 23 hectares was also established Other denominations allocated land in the original 200 acres 80 hectares were Jews Independents Congregationalists Presbyterians and Wesleyans The Necropolis Act of 1867 came into force on 1 January 1868 formally dedicating the cemetery and establishing cemetery trusts 7 The first burial in the cemetery reported by the Sydney Morning Herald was a pauper 18 year old John Whalan buried on 5 January 1867 This burial was not recorded in the burial register The first official burial was recorded in the Roman Catholic area a 14 month old toddler Catherine McMullen on 7 January 1867 8 By 1879 more land was needed and the remaining 233 hectares of the former Hyde Park were then purchased By the 1890s the cemetery was home to several buildings including the St Michael the Archangel Chapel and various cottages for section managers and sextons Originally known simply as the Necropolis Koine Greek meaning city of the dead local residents lobbied officials to have the name of their village changed from Haslem s Creek due to its association with the cemetery In 1879 the villagers got their wish and the area s name was changed to Rookwood however before long the Necropolis was also being referred to by that name The settlement of Rookwood changed its name in 1913 to Lidcombe as a blend of two mayors names Lidbury and Larcombe Larcombe was also a monumental stonemason whose business exists to this day The cemetery retained the name Rookwood The name Rookwood is most likely an accidental or deliberate corruption of the name Brookwood Cemetery and its associated railway station At the time of Rookwood s opening Brookwood Cemetery located in Brookwood Surrey England was one of the largest cemeteries in the world It is less likely that as claimed by some sources Rookwood was named after William Harrison Ainsworth s novel Rookwood written in 1834 9 Railway line EditMain article Rookwood Cemetery railway line Haslem s Creek Cemetery station c 1865Rookwood was served by a rail spur from the main line from 1867 until 1948 Mortuary stations served each of the three sections of the necropolis with a fourth at the main junction and a fifth on Regent Street adjacent to Central station The railway line construction began in November 1864 and from 1 January 1865 trains began their run into the cemetery It stopped at prearranged stations on the journey from central Sydney in order to pick up mourners and coffins Trains ran at 9 30am and 3pm The trains that carried the mourners were known as unimproved Redferns 10 There were two types of Hearse carriages used for the procession One consisted of a four wheeled van that carried up to 10 coffins on its upper and lower shelves Each of these shelves was designed so it could open onto the platform There were also eight wheeled vans that could hold 30 coffins Both of these vehicles were attached the back of the train for transporting to the cemetery At the terminus inside the cemetery the coffins were unloaded using wheeled hand propelled litters 11 The rail line was used to convey funeral parties to Rookwood until 1948 when the expanded use of processions by road made it obsolete The stations were offered to the Joint Committee of Necropolis Trustees for the price of 1 but due to maintenance costs the offer was rejected and the platforms within the cemetery were demolished Cemetery Station No 1 9 at the head of the rail spur was sold to Reverend Buckle for 100 in 1951 and was moved to Canberra in 1957 to become the All Saints Church Canberra 12 Cultural references EditRookwood Cemetery gave rise to the phrase crook as Rookwood meaning chronically ill as crook is Australian slang for being unwell A novel by Chris Nyst published in 2005 uses the phrase as its title 13 Notable interments EditFurther information Category Burials at Rookwood Cemetery Three Victoria Cross recipients Sergeant John Paton awarded in Indian Mutiny Captain Richard Been Stannard Royal Naval Reserve awarded in Norway campaign World War II cremated Sergeant John Woods Whittle awarded in World War I Eric Bailey 1906 1945 recipient of the George Cross Barcroft Boake 1866 1892 poet James Barnet 1827 1904 NSW Government Architect Aaron Buzacott 1800 1864 Congregational minister missionary at Rarotonga and founder of Takamoa Theological College reinterred from Devonshire Street Cemetery Joseph Cahill 1891 1959 Premier of New South Wales The Clarke brothers Thomas 1840 1867 and John 1846 1867 bushrangers Francis Lyon Cohen 1862 1934 the first Jewish chaplain in the British Army Peter Dawson 1882 1961 bass baritone singer Peter Dodds McCormick 1834 1916 songwriter Advance Australia Fair John Fairfax 1804 1877 newspaper proprietor Eugene Falleni 1875 1938 murderer Lilian Fowler 1886 1954 Australia s first female mayor John Frazer 1827 1884 politician and businessman Albert Henry Fullwood 1863 1930 painter Jimmy Governor 1875 1901 outlaw John Gowing 1835 1908 co founder of Gowings store John Barney Hines 1878 1958 veteran WWI soldier known for prowess as souvenir collector from Germans Livingston Hopkins 1846 1947 illustrator amp cartoonist professionally known as Hop Charles Hoskins 1851 1926 industrialist associated with the iron and steel industry Sallie Anne Huckstep 1954 1986 Sydney underworld figure David Jones 1793 1873 founder of David Jones stores Samuel Joseph 1824 1898 merchant politician Jewish community leader Peter Kenna 1930 1987 playwright Jack Lang 1876 1975 Premier of New South Wales Louisa Lawson 1848 1920 suffragist Fred Maynard 1897 1946 Indigenous leader Mei Quong Tart 1850 1903 Sydney merchant and restaurateur George McRae 1858 1923 architect Bea Miles 1902 1973 well known Sydney eccentric Bob Nichols 1809 1857 politician first Auditor General of NSW Jacob Pitman 1810 1890 advocate of shorthand whose epitaph is written phonetically Roy Rene 1891 1954 comedian Abe Saffron 1919 2006 businessman and underworld figure John Chow Hayes 1911 1993 Underworld Figure Rose Scott 1847 1925 feminist Achille Simonetti 1838 1890 sculptor Kenneth Slessor 1901 1971 poet James Toohey 1850 1895 brewer 14 Yip Ho Nung 1909 1979 restaurateur and Chinese community leader Mary Healy Mother Gertrude 1865 1952 Sister of Charity and hospital administratorWar graves EditAs at May 2020 Rookwood Necropolis contains the graves of a total 704 Commonwealth service personnel that are registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission 435 from World War I and 274 from World War II besides three Dutch war graves 15 The commission also erected a memorial to 132 Commonwealth service personnel of World War II who were cremated at Rookwood Crematorium and whose ashes remain here 16 Four Japanese Imperial Navy crewmen of midget submarines M 14 and M 21 who died in the World War II Attack on Sydney Harbour during 31 May 8 June 1942 were cremated with naval honours at Rookwood Cemetery 17 The ashes were returned to Japan later that year 18 Sydney War Cemetery Edit Within the grounds of Rookwood Cemetery is enclosed the CWGC s Sydney War Cemetery whose entrance is on the west side on the necropolis railway It was established in 1942 during World War II for service personnel and there are now 732 buried or commemorated by name here Most of those buried here died at the Concord Military Hospital in Sydney The British war graves within the cemetery are of servicemen who died as prisoners of war in Japanese hands and had been cremated after the war their ashes were brought to Sydney and buried here Here is also buried a civilian employee of the Admiralty and there is one French war grave 19 Within the entrance building is the New South Wales Cremation Memorial which commemorates 199 service personnel of World War II who were cremated within the state of New South Wales and whose ashes were subsequently scattered or buried at places where commemoration by a CWGC memorial was not possible 19 Within the cemetery stands the Sydney Memorial to almost 750 personnel of the Australian Army Royal Australian Air Force and Australian Merchant Navy who died in World War II in the eastern and southern regions of Australia and waters south of 20 degrees Latitude who have no known grave 19 Chapels Edit St Michael the Archangel Catholic Chapel Anglican All Souls Chapel Mausoleum of the Resurrection Catholic Chapel Mary Mother of Mercy Catholic Chapel Sacred Heart Chapel Catholic Chapel St Athanasios Greek Orthodox Church Chinese Temple Rookwood Islamic MonumentMonuments and memorials Edit Quong Sin Tong Shrine Armenian Memorial Russian Memorial Ukrainian Catholic Priest Vault Crown of Thorns Altar Jewish Memorial Garden of Remembrance Garden of RemembranceGraves and mausoleums Edit Graves overgrown with Agave americana Araucaria spp in background Sandstone memorial Sandstone monuments Family Vault John Paul Family Vault Frazer Mausoleum Grave of Premier of NSW Jack Lang Family grave of NSW Premier Joseph Cahill Frazer Mausoleum A small statue near a grave Buildings Edit The Rookwood Memorial Gardens Crematorium Independent Office Elephant House RotundaReferences Edit About Rookwood General Cemeteries Reserve Trust rookwoodcemetery com au Archived from the original on 12 February 2019 Retrieved 11 February 2019 Lewis Wendy 2017 Celebrating 150 years of Rookwood Catholic cemetery Captain Honey p 3 ISBN 978 0646972893 Rookwood Cemetery and Necropolis New South Wales State Heritage Register Department of Planning amp Environment H00718 Retrieved 1 November 2018 Text is licensed by State of New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment under CC BY 4 0 licence Rookwood Necropolis Draft Plan of Management PDF NSW Department of Primary Industry March 2013 p 23 Archived from the original PDF on 8 August 2014 Retrieved 20 July 2014 Lewis Wendy 2017 Celebrating 150 years of Rookwood Catholic cemetery Captain Honey p 139 ISBN 978 0646972893 Murray Lisa 2016 Sydney Cemeteries A Field Guide Sydney NewSouth Publishing pp 14 15 50 54 ISBN 978 1742234489 New South Wales Legislation 23 December 1867 The Necropolis Act of 1867 PDF retrieved 29 May 2019 Weston David A 1989 The Sleeping City The Story of Rookwood Necropolis Sydney Society of Australian Genealogists and Hale amp Iremonger p 15 ISBN 0868064904 a b State Rail Authority of New South Wales Archives Section How amp Why of Station Names meanings and origins Second Edition 1982 State Rail Authority of New South Wales Friends of Rookwood 2002 A Rookwood Ramble book A short self guided walking tour NSW Ochert M S 1998 The Mortuary Station to Rookwood in Locality 9 2 pp 23 26 All Saints Church information Archived from the original on 7 September 2008 Retrieved 11 February 2019 Crook As Rookwood by Chris Nyst from HarperCollins Publishers Australia 3 January 2008 Archived from the original on 3 January 2008 Retrieved 11 September 2017 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link The Sydney Magazine Sydney Morning Herald 28 February 1908 p 72 Rookwod Necropolis Sydney Archived 2 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine CWGC Cemetery Report Rookwood Necropolis Rookwood Crematorium Sydney Archived 9 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine CWGC Cemetery Report Rookwood Crematorium Gill George Hermon 1968 Australia in the War of 1939 1945 Series 2 Volume II Royal Australian Navy 1942 1945 Australian War Memorial p 72 ISBN 0002174804 Jenkins David 1992 Battle Surface Japan s Submarine War Against Australia 1942 44 Random House Australia pp 232 235 ISBN 0091826381 a b c Sydney War Cemetery Archived 2 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine CWGC Cemetery Report Sydney War Cemetery External links Edit New South Wales portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rookwood Cemetery Rookwood Catholic Cemetery Crematorium Rookwood Cemetery Rookwood Independent Cemetery Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine Friends of Rookwood Inc Rookwood Cemetery at Find a Grave Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rookwood Cemetery amp oldid 1159736249, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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