Canterbury City Cemeteries Online
There are three cemeteries and one transferred memorial garden in Canterbury City –
Moorfields Methodist Cemetery, Kingsgrove; St Paul's Church of England Cemetery,
Canterbury; St Saviour's, Church of England Cemetery, Punchbowl; and St Barnabas
Memorial Garden, Punchbowl. These cemeteries are the last resting places of many
Canterbury City pioneers. Information recorded in the burial registers and on the headstones in
these cemeteries is often vital to researchers as it is not available elsewhere.
Canterbury City Cemeteries Online project is a joint effort to publish on the internet surviving
burial registers and photographs of headstones for the cemeteries in Canterbury. The
participants in this project are Canterbury & District Historical Society; Maxine Shaw; MaryAnne Warner; and Canterbury City Council. To continue please choose from the following list:
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The cemeteries and memorial garden (including burial registers and photographs)
About the Canterbury City Cemeteries Online Project and its participants
Cemetery publications for sale
Where can I find further information?
Would anyone be interested in information I have collected about my family?
The Cemeteries
The cemeteries and memorial garden to be included in the Canterbury City Cemeteries Online
project are listed below. The burial register, photographs of surviving headstones and historical
information and biographies of the people buried in St Saviour's, Church of England Cemetery,
Punchbowl are now available on this site. The other two cemeteries and memorial garden in
Canterbury City will follow.
Cemetery now available on this site
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St Saviour's, Church of England Cemetery, Punchbowl. In addition to the burial register,
photographs of the headstones and virtual tour of the cemetery, we have provided brief
biographical information extracted from the publication about this cemetery and also
facts and statistical information gathered by Maxine Shaw from headstones in the
cemetery. This information together with a history of the church gives an insight into the
development of a small section of this community in Canterbury City.
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Burial register linked to photographs of headstones in the cemetery
Virtual tour of the cemetery
Cemeteries and memorial garden available on this site soon
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Moorefields Methodist Cemetery, Kingsgove (previously known as Belmore then Lakemba).
It is believed to be the oldest cemetery in Canterbury City. The first of over 1324 listed
burials was for Emma Lees recorded on 6 January, 1855. The burial records for this
cemetery can not be substantiated due to a fire destroying the early burial records. It was
only possible to compile limited records from memory. Plots can no longer be purchased.
Canterbury City Council is custodian of this cemetery and people with existing rights can
arrange for relatives to be interred.
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St Barnabas Memorial Garden, Punchbowl is now situated in a corner of St Saviour's,
Church of England, Punchbowl. In the late 1990s St Barnabas Church was sold and the
ashes of those interred were relocated to St Saviour’s unless relatives chose to inter them
elsewhere.
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St Paul's Church of England Cemetery, Canterbury. The first recorded burial was for two
day old, Henry Monk on 26th August, 1860. Burial plots can no longer be purchased in this
cemetery and no burials are allowed. Niches can still be purchased in the Columbium.
Canterbury City Cemeteries Online Project
Canterbury City Cemeteries Online project began in 2000 in response to family historian,
Mary-Anne Warner, offering to prepare the burial registers, photographs of headstones and
other material held in the Canterbury City Council Library Service Local History Collection for
publication on Canterbury City Council's website. It became a joint effort between Canterbury &
District Historical Society, Maxine Shaw, Mary-Anne Warner and Canterbury City Council.
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Canterbury & District Historical Society collected, collated and published the burial
records and two members of the Society, Joyce Ormsby and Audrey Barnes, compiled the
books. If it were not for the work and dedication of the Society and its members, much of
this information would not be available today.
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Maxine Shaw produced a survey of St Saviour’s Cemetery, as a University assignment, and
donated the results to Canterbury City Council Library Service’s Local History Collection.
This assignment included some photographs of the cemetery grounds and individual
headstones as well as historical and statistical information. When told of Canterbury City
Cemeteries Online project, Maxine gladly gave permission to use her assignment and
photographs on our website. Some of these photographs are now online for easy access
by researchers world-wide.
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Canterbury City Council is custodian of the surviving original records for Moorefield’s
Cemetery. In 1984, Grayson Gerrard was employed by Council to photograph the
headstones and grounds of St Paul’s Cemetery, Canterbury. It is planned to link these
photographs, deposited in the Library’s Local History Collection, to the burial records online.
Canterbury City Library co-ordinated this project and will continue to add biographical and
pictorial material about these pioneers and their families, who are buried in the cemeteries,
as it comes to hand – mostly via loan or donation.
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Mary-Anne Warner volunteered to check and update the available information from a
number of sources in cooperation with Local History staff, photographed the remaining
headstones and prepared the project for electronic publication.
Publications
Canterbury & District Historical Society has published the burial records for the three cemeteries
in Canterbury City. The publications feature brief histories of the churches, biographies of some
pioneers and in the Moorefields and St Saviours publications plans are included. The
publications are available from Canterbury City Library for $8.00 (including GST, postage &
handling).
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Moorefields Methodist Cemetery, Moorefirlds Road, Lakemba, area also known as
Kingsgrove compiled by Joyce Ormsby. [Canterbury, NSW]: Canterbury & District
Historical Society, 1986.
St Paul's Church of England, Canterbury: Burial Records compiled by Audrey Barnes.
[Canterbury, NSW]: Canterbury & District Historical Society, 1986.
St Saviour's Church of England, Canterbury Road (opposite Belmore Road) Punchbowl:
Burial Records compiled by Joyce Ormsby. [Canterbury, NSW]: Canterbury & District
Historical Society, 1989.
The information provided in the publications includes:
 name
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date buried
age
whether or not there is a headstone
remarks
Other publications about Canterbury City are also available for sale.
Where can I find further information?
Canterbury & District Historical Society has collected biographies and pictorial information
on Canterbury City pioneers since 1954. This material is available to researchers by contacting
the Society.
The Local History Collection at Canterbury City Library holds the surviving burial records for
Moorefields Cemetery. The library has also collected family histories and other biographical
and pictorial information about Canterbury City pioneers intermittently from the 1960s and
actively since 1984. Most of this information has been either donated or loaned by residents to
copy for the Local History Collection. This material includes photographs of the churches,
cemeteries and headstones; a few photographs of early pioneers buried in the cemeteries;
assignments donated by university students and; family and church histories. Photographs and
other material held in the Local History Collection are gradually being published on Canterbury
City Council’s website.
Would anyone be interested in information I have collected
about my family?
Yes! Yes! Yes! Canterbury & District Historical Society and the Local History Collection at
Canterbury City Library are both very interested in collecting information and portraits of
people who have lived in Canterbury City. This information may be in the form of family trees,
biographical notes, memories recorded by our ancestors, photographs, etc.
Having a copy of this material in both repositories means it is available to more researchers and
family historians, as both organisations are open on different days and different times. Both
organisations will happily accept donations or borrow your material to copy for the collections.
St Saviour's Church of England, Punchbowl
In 1868 the Archbishop of Sydney purchased from Luke Featherston the land where St
Saviour's church and cemetery is located. The district was apparently known at the time as Salt
Pan Creek.
A small timber building with shingle roof was erected and the first service was held on Ash
Wednesday, 24 February, 1869. The building housed a public school which opened the
following July. It was the application for the establishment of the school on 5 January, 1869,
(that is, while the church was under construction), which seems to have given the district its
name for the next 40 years - Belmore. The Earl of Belmore had become Governor of NSW in
1868, and the local residents borrowed his name for their school.
Reporting on the application in January, 1869, the Inspector said that there were at least 350
people in the locality. With few exceptions, the residents were in poor circumstances, some
with small freehold farms and gardens who obtained a living sel1ing their produce in Sydney,
and others employed in cutting wood and carting it to Sydney. In 1879, the church ceased to be
used for school purposes when replaced by a new public school building at present-day Wiley
Park.
The railway from Sydenham to Burwood Road opened in 1895, and the terminus station was
named Belmore. When the line was extended to Bankstown in 1909, new stations were named
Lakemba and Punchbowl. The name Belmore then contracted to the present-day suburb, and
the suburb of Punchbowl developed around the new railway station.
The area has been at various times part of the Parishes of Cooks River, Kogarah, Canterbury
and then Belmore. In 1913, Punchbowl and Bankstown were united to form the Parish of
Bankstown. In 1955, St Saviour's, St Barnabas and St John's, Padstow, separated from
Bankstown Parish and became the Provisional District of Punchbowl with St John's, Padstow.
St John's separated in 1949, and St Saviour's and St Barnabas became a Parish. St Barnabas
then separated and St Saviour's became Parish in 1952.
In 1917 a new church was erected on the site of the original timber building. This only occurred
after a lot of controversy that divided the congregation. It appears that land had been acquired
in Rossmore Avenue (opposite Turner Street) and a strong group wanted the new church built
there, the chief argument being that it was more central. However, the descendants of the
orlginal founders of St Saviour's insisted on the old site, and finally won. Archbishop Mowll
consecrated the church in 1936. The Parish Hall dates from 1925, the Kindergarten Hall from
1928, and the Sunday School Hall was moved to the site and dedicated in 1964.
Source: St Saviour's Church of England, Canterbury Road (opposite Belmore Road)
Punchbowl: Burial Records compiled by Joyce Ormsby. [Canterbury, NSW]: Canterbury &
District Historical Society, 1989.
Local pioneers buried in St Saviour's Cemetery
Many pioneers of the old district of Belmore are buried in St Saviour's Cemetery. A heritage
panel describing the history of the Original Belmore Settlement was unveiled by Councillor
Kayee Griffin, Mayor of Canterbury City, on 27 June, 1998. [heritage/herne.htm]. If you have
further information about these pioneers or information about other people buried in this
cemetery and would like to either donate or loan it for copying please contact Canterbury &
District Historical Society and Canterbury City Library. Canterbury City Library will be kept
in the Local History Collection and published on this website. If your family tree includes an
ancestor buried in St Saviour's Cemetery we will publish the information on this website or if it is
already published on the internet, we would be happy to add a link from this site.
One of the earliest European settlers in the area was Frederick Meredith, a sailor who arrived
with the First Fleet, and later returned on the Bellona to settle in Sydney. His farm was located
west of today's Rose Street and Cullen's Road. He sold all but 50 acres of the property to
Thomas Rose, another Bellona immigrant, but his family continued to occupy the land.
Frederick Meredith was buried in Liverpool Cemetery, but many of his descendants still live in
the area near the original farm.
Henry Cullen and John Hodsdon bought the 30 acre section of Meredith's farm, and moved
there to establish a market garden in the 1860's. The southern boundary of the market garden
was an arm of Salt Pan Creek (now Wiggs Road Canal), and the house still stands (1989) in
Mooral Avenue.
The Levingston (10390ps) family earned a living as timber merchants from 1861. Their farm
was west of Belmore Road, now the site of the Riverwood Housing Commission area. A
heritage panel describing the history of this site was unveiled by Councillor Kayee Griffin, Mayor
of Canterbury City, on 24 February, 1996. [heritage/herne.htm] The Levingston's nearest
nearest neighbour, immediately to the north was Ludwig Passeyer, a market gardener.
The Whitehall family were descended from Thomas Gardner Whitehall, adopted son of Robert
Gardner, who lived on Podmore's and Emery's grants (north of Narwee Station) from very
early in the nineteenth century.
James Milner was the first Postmaster when Belmore Post Office was established in 1879. He
lived on the southern side of Canterbury Road, opposite the present Wiley Park, and he
operated a horse-bus between Belmore and Sydney in the 1880's.
William John Gibson was a Bankstown Alderman and Mayor and was the first President of the
Grand Council of the Tempe East Hills Railway League when he died in 1925. His wife, Bertha,
cut the ribbon at the official opening of the Tempe-Kingsgrove section in September, 1931,
and was in the Official Party at the opening of the Kingsgrove-East Hills section in December,
1931.
The Scottish Fenwick family arrived in Sydney on 26th August, 1849 aboard the Kate with the
following members of family:
Andrew
Elizabeth
James
John
Johannna
Peter
Thomas
36 years of age
32
15
13
11
9
7
Eight more children were born to the couple after their arrival in the Colony:
George
Walter
Elizabeth
Thomas
Robert
1850
1851
1854
1856
1860
Jane
Peter James*
Georgina
1861
1863
(given the name Peter James after his two brothers (Peter and James)
who were drowned at sea in 1862.
not known
Andrew, Senior, died at sea aboard a ship in 1866 leaving his wife, Elizabeth, to bring up their
large family on her own. Later, two of her sons John and Thomas, commenced a ship towage
service, so it seems the family had the “sea in their blood”. John Fenwick married Pauline
[10085pm] Kauffman in 1871. John Fenwick bought James Quigg's "Bellgrove Farm" and built
a Victorian mansion, "Belmore House" [11004pm] in the 1880’s - a heritage panel was unveiled
by Councillor Kayee Griffin, Mayor of Canterbury City, on 24 April, 1997.
[heritage/belmhous.htm]. The family occupied the unsubdivided farm until 1942.
”Two successful businessmen chose the hills of Canterbury to build their country houses. About
1880 John Fenwick, tugboat proprietor, built a large Victorian residence which he called
“Belmore House”. It was demolished for the building of Roselands Shopping Centre in the early
1960’s” (2)
At least 15 members of the Fenwick Family are buried at St Saviour’s Cemetery.
In 1798 William Bond a free settler on the First Fleet was granted land at Peninsular and
Windsor. In 1810 he received a grant of 50 acres in Botany Bay. However, on 22 January,
1810 he wrote (1) to Governor Macquarie:
Your Excellency,
The petition of William Bond most respectfully shewith that he has been twenty-two years
in this Colony. Being considered worthy of some indulgence, [he] has recently received
the Deeds of fifty acres of land, from which he was at first driven off by the Natives, with a
providential escape for his Life. But has since raised a house on the said grant and gotten
a part of it under cultivation with considerable expense, life and inconvenience from which
circumstances he most respectfully solicits your Excellencies consideration may be
pleased to confirm to him the aforesaid lands” (2).
William Bond died in 1839 aged 110 years whilst living in Pitt Street, Sydney (3)
Adam Bond arrived in the Colony of NSW as a guest of His Majesty’s Government on 7 th
December, 1829 aboard the ship Sarah (4). The ship had departed London on 29th August,
1829 (5), along with 200 male convicts. He traveled by way of Tristan d'Acunha and St Pierre
Island to Sydney (6).
According to the report written by Alick Osborne, Surgeon Superintendent on the Sarah's
voyage, Adam Bond was one of the luckier convicts on this journey to New South Wales.:“We commenced this voyage at the most favourable period - the beginning of September.
The prisoners had been some time employed in the hulks at Portsmouth and were
accustomed to ship life and all in excellent condition and most of them anxious for the
voyage. The voyage was quick (100 days) the weather fine so that I was enabled to keep all
of them on deck, all day. The Prison below was kept clean and dry - the stove lighted almost
every day. We had no cases of any moment (No. 7 recorded in this journal excepted). All in
general slight yielding splendidly to the treatment and all terminated favourably so that a
further detail of cases seems unnecessary.
We had no appearance of scurvy but to some of the oldest prisoners who were desponding
and debilitated - I administered several doses of Bark and wine twice a day during the last
month of the passage. This appeared to have a beneficial prophylactic affect in obleviating
any scorbtic (hard to decipher) tendency which might otherwise be apprehended. We sent
none to the hospital on our arrival and landed all in robust health and vigour (7)."
Bond was one of several prisoners from Chelmsford in Essex who had been tried on 9th March,
1829 for "milks and reaps and poaching" and were sentenced to seven years in the Colony of
New South Wales (8). However it appears he already had two prior convictions. He was
seventeen years of age, a Protestant with no education, his height was five feet three and a half
inches, ruddy complexion with brown hair and light blue eyes. His face was marred by two
slight scars under and at the corner of his left eye with another slight scar at the left corner of
his mouth.
On arrival he was sent off in the charge of Peter Howell in the Illawarra area. 0n 25 June, Bond
was assigned to the service of W.E. Riley in the No. 5 Road Party in the Argyle District and on 9
September 1836 he received his Conditional Pardon. (10)
Three children have been found in the records born to Adam and Mary Ann Bond while they
were living in the inner city area, namely:
Adam Thomas
John Charles Prier
Sarah Elizabeth
James Richard
has not been found in the records.
born 4 April, 1841
born 28 April, 1843
born 10 June, 1847
Adam Bond became a timber getter:
"The story is told of one timber getter Adam Bond an early farmer on a large scale. He loaded a
cart with timber and took the horse to the tow track. For a distance of three miles the faithful
animal would drag the dray to the doors of the Rising Sun Inn. Here the dray would be unloaded
and the horse returned to its owner" (13).
Adam Bond and his family lived on a farm on the eastern side of Bond's Road from 1853. He
and his family owned extensive landholdings in the area to as far south as Lugarno. His children
married into other well-known families from the district, including the Welch family from "Forest
Grove" and the Brand (or Brandt) family from Canterbury Road, near Remly Street. Other
families associated with the Bond family are Brand, Shepherd, Moss, Matthews and Fahy.
It appears the Bond family also developed a friendship with the Howell family as Peter and
Henrietta Howell were witnesses to the marriage of Adam Thomas Bond and Ann Martin on 15
April, 1854 at the Wesleyan Chapel in York Street, Sydney.
Bond is listed as a Trustee for the Road Trust of Canterbury Road in 1865 (14). He first
appears in the Sands Directory in 1885 and is listed as a farmer; beside John Bond, English
Church - Rev. M. KeIly on the western side off Canterbury Road, Canterbury, from Wylie's
Lane.
Adam Bond died on 20 June, 1885 at his residence in Bond Road, Belmore (16) and the
following Funeral Notice appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald:
"The friends of the late Adam Bond, Senior, of Belmore are respectfully invited to attend
his funeral to move from his residence this day Monday at 2pm for Belmore Cemetery".
In his Will (17) Adam Bond left eight acres with a house to his son Adam Thomas Bond for life,
the remainder of furniture, money in the bank, feather bed, dresser to be divided amongst his
daughter Mary Ann Brand, her children and the wife of Adam Bond junior.
Sandstone headstones featuring particularly beautiful designs mark the Bond family graves.
Sources:
Bones and more bones: survey of St Saviour’s Anglical Church undertaken between March and
June, 1993. [Assignment 2 for the subject History through Monuments- undertaken for the
Diploma of Local & Applied History, University of New England, Armidale]
St Saviour's Church of England, Canterbury Road (opposite Belmore Road) Punchbowl: Burial
Records compiled by Joyce Ormsby. [Canterbury, NSW]: Canterbury & District Historical
Society, 1989, p. 8.
REFERENCES
Bond Family
1. Ryan, RJ (editor). Index to Land Grants and leases 1792-1865 and selected registers of
land grants and leases 1792-1865. Australian Document Library, 1974.
2. Memorial from William Bond. Colonial Secretary's Records.
3. NSW Births Deaths Marriages Index.
4. Victorian Convict Index. Microfiche 754.
5. Convict Indent. Society of Australian Genealogists Reel 7011.
6. Nicholson, Ian. Log of Logs: a catalogue of logs, journals, shipboard diaries, letters and all
forms of voyage narratives: 1788-1988 for Australia and New Zealand and surrounding
oceans. Vol 1. by ,Ian Nicholson. Published jointly by the Author and The Australian
Association for the Maritime History.
7. Supt. Surgeon s Journal NSW State Archives Reel PRO 3209.
8. Ships Indent NSW Archives Reel 398.
9. Riley s papers, Mitchell Library, MSS. Vol.1 p. 95, A106.
10. NSW. Archives Office Reel 997, 36/885.
11. NSW Births Deaths Marriages Index.
12. ibid.
13. Change and challenge a history of the Municipality of Canterbury, NSW by FA Larcombe.
Canterbury NSW: Canterbury Municipal Council, 1979, p 104.
14. ibid. p 83.
15. Sands Sydney and New South Wales
16. Death Certificate Adam Bond
17. NSW Supreme Court Will Series 3 Number 12302. Society of Australian Genealogists Reel
3028.
Fenwick Family
1. Shipping Records. Reel 2136 NSW Archives Office.
2. Muir, Lesley. The Heritage of Canterbury Municipality. Earlwood, NSW: Canterbury &
District Historical Society, 1992.
3. Fenwick, Hazel. Fenwick. 1983.
St Saviour's, Church of England Cemetery, Punchbowl
St Saviour’s Church of England Cemetery, Punchbowl is located behind St Saviour's Church of
England Church, 1353 Canterbury Road, Punchbowl. There is a double gate at the Viola Street
entrance to the cemetery and from Canterbury Road there is open access through the church
grounds. The cemetery occupies 2.750 square metres out of the total Church site of 5.090
square metres
The first recorded burial was for Catherine Elizabeth Pearson (age 36 years) on 19 th February,
1878. There are many early pioneers of Canterbury City are among the 1175 recorded burials.
Plots can no longer be purchased in the cemetery, however, people with existing rights can
arrange for relatives to be interred by contacting the Reverand at St Saviour’s Anglican Church,
Punchbowl.
Earliest Dates of Death Recorded on Monuments
Name
James FENWICK*
Peter FENWICK*
Beatrice FENWICK**
Nellie MILLER**
Catherine PEARSON
James BOND
Maria MILLER
Rebecca BOND
Ellen BOND
Adam BOND
Date of death
6.4.1862 (died at sea)
6.4.1862 (died at sea
14.2.1877 (died at Lochinvar)
17.11.1877
19.2.1878
14.6.1878
25.6.1878
17.7.1884
2.1.1885
20.6.1885
* Due James and Peter Fenwick dying at sea their bodies are not buried in the Fenwick Family
vault.
**It is not recorded if Beatrice Fenwick and Nellie Miller are buried at St Saviours - the
inscription on their headstones only give their dates of death.
Earliest Monuments
Name
Catherine PEARSON
James BOND
Ann and Adam BOND
19.2.1878
14.6.1878
17.7.1884, 20.6.1885
Earliest Dates of Birth (calculated from age at death)
Name
Year of Birth
Adam BOND
Andrew FENWICK
Ann BOND
Mary SPIKE
Nathaniel SPIKE
Ludwig PASSEYER
John MUNRO
Francis LEVINGSTON
Lois PASSEYER
Maria MILLER
James MILNER
John B. WILLIAMSON
1811
1812
1814
1817
1819
1820
1828
1831
1831
1832
1832
1832
James FENWICK
Elizabeth LEECH
Peter LINDGREN
Emma SILVER
1833
1834
1834
1834
Places of Origin (engraved on headstones)
Name
John FENWICK
George S. THOMPSON
Henry GILL
Mary PINE
Nathaniel SPIKE
George FINBOW
Grace DICKENSEN
Violet PETTIFORD
Alice PETTIFORD
Henry CULLEN
Ellen CAMERON
James C. BLACKBURN
James LEVINGSTON
Frances LIVINGSTON
Robert LEVINGSTON
Catherine PEARSON
Place of Origin
Newburgh, Scotland
Geelong, Victoria
Tumut, NSW
Adelaide, South Australia
Falmouth, Cornwall
Suffolk, UK.
Beverley, Yorkshire.UK
England. England
England. England
Westminster, UK
Leslow Farm, Cheshire,UK
Scremerston, Berwick-on-Tweed
County Cavan, Ireland
County Cavan, Ireland
County Cavan, Ireland
County Armagh, Ireland
Evidence of Occupation (engraved on headstone)
John FENWICK
Ship Owner
Died in other Places (engraved on headstone)
Name
Beatrice FENWICK
Andrew FENWICK
James FENWICK
Peter FENWICK
George THOMPSON
Willie GIBSON
Charles GIBSON
Rose KING
George ROFFE
Places of Death
Lochinvar, NSW
Died at sea
Died at sea
Died at sea
Gerringong, NSW
Bollon, Queensland
Dardanelles
England
England
Causes of Death (carved on headstone)
Name
Kenneth THORN
Percy WILLIAMSON
Donald MEREDITH
Andrew FENWICK
Oswald THOMPSON
James THOMPSON
Charles GIBSON
Will DILLOW
George STEPHENSON
Hurstville Oval
Alan JARVIS
Date of Death
19.11.1951
31.10.1918
2.9.1954
8.4.1966
2.3.1908
23.4.1946
7.8.1915
1.10.1918
1.11.1935
Cause of Death
Accidentally killed
Died of injuries whilst on active service
Result cf accident
Died at sea
Accidentally killed.
Died of accident
Killed in action
Killed in action
Died as a result of accident at
5.6.1948
Result of accident
Archibald KNOX
Norman TOWNSEND
Alan BRISBANE
Lindsay BRISBANE
22.8.1915
2.8.1942
20.5.1964
11.12.1972
Killed in action
Accidentally killed
Accidentally killed
Result of accident
Names of Stonemasons (carved on headstones)
Cole Brothers,
Punchbowl
E. Roberts,
St Peters
W.H. Coxhead,
62 Clevand Street, Sydney
Taylor & Sons,
Elizabeth Street, Sydney
Patten Brothers,
302 Pitt Street, Sydney
Andrews & Son,
Lidcombe
Rickey and Holt,
Canterbury
Star Memorial Company
T. Collier,
Campsie
Larcombe & Company (still in business in 1993)
Cleveland,
North Sydney
Ministers of religion and Parish Wardens (inscribed on headstone)
Minister
George Dunkley (Congregational Minister)
Hubert Rogers (Reverand)
Term
15.8.1919 Husband of Charlotte (nee Fenwick)
15.8.1960 Late Rector of St Barnabas (Rector
of St Saviours 1938-1959)
Frank Griffith (Reverand)
6.9.1961
Lindsay Brisbane
Reginald Noake
Men who Served in the Armed Services (inscribed on headstone)
Name
Charles GIBSON
Archibald KNOX
L.W. TEITZEL
Frank James LAWRENCE
Will DILLOW
Percy WILLIAMSON
Private F.O. PORTER (DCM)
V. HUCKSTADT
Charles MANEWELL
James Edward DYER
Arthur GRIFFIN
Charles WESTHEIDER
Claude HONEYMAN
S.W. BRAND
L.A.V. BECKETT
Date of Death
7.8.1915
22.8.1915
29.7.1916
4.9.1916
1.10.1918
31.10.1918
10.11.1918
15.5.1924
28.7.1925
31.7.1931
18.5.1932
20.9.1938
27.6.1940
27.5.1949
8.5.1956
Regiment
Sergeant, 1st Light Horse Brigade
Private, 18th Battalion
Lieutenant, C Company 25th Battalion, AIF
Private, AIF
Lieutenant Will
Bandsman, 4th Battalion, AIF
53rd Battalion
Private, 33rd Battalion
Corporal (9129), 13th Field Ambulance, AIF
Private (54673), 35th Battalion
Private, 1st Pioneer Battalion
Private (506), 1st Battalion, AIF
Private, 34th 33rd Battalion
Private (1571), 1st Battalion
Men Killed in Action (inscribed on headstone)
Name
Charles GIBSON
Archibald KNOX
Alfred BRISCOE
Will DILLOW
Date of Death
7.8.1915
22.8.1915
24.12.1915
1.10.1918
Cause of Death
Killed in action, Dardanelles
Killed in active service, Gallipoli
On active service
In action, France
Percy WILLIAMSON
31.10.1918
Died of injuries whilst in action, France
EPITAPHS
In
Loving
Memory
of
GEORGE FREDERICK
ELDEST SON OF
GEORGE & MARY THOMPSON
DIED AT GERRINGONG, 11TH DEC. 1896
AGED 191/4 YEARS
ALL YE WHO COME MY GRAVE TO SEE,
PREPARE YOURSELVES TO FOLLOW ME.
PREPARE FOR DEATH, MAKE NO DELAY,
I, IN MY BLOOM WAS SNATCHED AWAY
ALSO THEIR YOUNGEST SON
OSWALD ROY
ACCIDENTIALLY KILLED 2ND MARCH 1908
AGED 15 YEARS
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ALSO
GEORGE STILES THOMPSON
FATHER OF THE ABOVE
BORN GEELONG VICTORIA 6TH JUNE 1852
DIED 16 NOVEMBER 1920
ABIDE WITH ME
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ALSO
MARY THOMPSON
DIED 19TH MARCH 1944
AGED 92 YEARS
ALSO
DAUGHTER OF ABOVE
MARY VIOLET THOMPSON
DIED 14TH MARCH 1957. AGED 70 YEARS
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THOMAS ROBERTS
BELOVED HUSBAND OF
ELSIE MAY
DIED 23RD JUNE 1945
AGED 70 YEARS
WE CANNOT SAY AND WILL NOT SAY
THAT HE IS DEAD HE IS JUST AWAY
WITH A CHEERY SMILE AND A WAVE OF THE HAND
HE HAS WANDERED INTO AN UNKNOWN LAND.
ALSO BELOVED SON OF ABOVE
THOMAS EDWARD ROBERTS
DIED 9TH OCT. 1970
A DEARLY LOVED SON & BROTHER
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Thy
will be
done
In Memory
of
JOHN CHARLES PRIOR BOND
WHO DIED JULY 31 1888
AGED 47 YEARS 3 MONTHS
After life's fitful fever He sleeps well
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Sacred
TO THE MEMORY OF
ANN
THE WIFE OF
ADAM BOND
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JULY 17TH 1884
AGED 70 YEARS
My beloved husband and children dear,
I am not dead but sleeping here
But since the Lord pleased me to take
Love one another for my sake.
Also
ADAM THOMAS BOND
SON OF ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
SEPT 30TH 1929
AGED 78 YEARS
Remembrance
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Sacred
In the MEMORY of
ADAM BOND
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JUNE 20TH 1885
AGED 74 YEARS
Nothing in my hand I bring
Simply to Thy cross I cIing
ERECTED BY
A.T. BOND AND M.A. BRAND
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NOTES
Incomplete epitaphs extracted from Maxine’s assignment
ALFRED BRISCOE a-ted Ad.
On Active Service.
He heard the call and answered.
JOHN KELSO
Aged 91 years
Husband and wife side by side
Sixty one years a loving bride
During our life it was a pride
To know that our love was sublime
MARY ANN LEVINGSTON Aged 62 years.
Long days and nights she bore her pain
TO SEEK FOR CURE WAS ALL IN VAIN
BUT GOD ALONE WHO KNOWETH BEST
DID EASE HER PAIN AND GIVE HER REST
NEXT
ELLEN BOND. aced 2 days. MARY ELLEN BOND, aced 9 months. Suffer little children to come
unto me.
CATHERINE PEARSON. aced 36 years.
She was the relict of George Pearson, storekeeper of Adelong. She was the daughter of James
and Mary Mullenq Monahan Road near Armagh, Ireland. She died at Bond's Farm near
Canterbury' leaving three children to mourn their 10s5.
NOTES. Full of history, her husband's name and occupation and place of residence and being a
'relict' indicated her husband we, dead, her parents and their place of residence and the number
of children.
Plots can no longer be purchased in any of the three
cemeteries in Canterbury City.
The Cemeteries
The three cemeteries in Canterbury City are the last resting places of many Canterbury City
pioneers. Information recorded in the burial registers and on the headstones in these
cemeteries is often vital to researchers as it is not available elsewhere. Plots can no longer be
purchased in any of the three cemeteries in Canterbury City.
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Moorefields Methodist Cemetery, Kingsgove. Canterbury City Council is custodian of
this cemetery and people with existing rights can arrange for relatives to be interred. It is
believed to be the oldest cemetery in Canterbury City with the earliest recorded burial being
for Emma Lees on 6 January, 1855. This information can not be substantiated due to a fire
destroying the early burial records. It was only possible to compile limited records from
memory. There are over 1324 recorded burials.
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St Paul’s Church of England Cemetery, Canterbury ??????? is custodian has been
closed however, ashes can be interned in the columbarium. The first recorded burial was for
two day old, Henry Monk on 26th August, 1860 Ashes only? Rev back on 8.10.01
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St Saviour’s Church of England Cemetery, Punchbowl ????? custodian of this
cemetery and people with existing rights can arrange for relatives to be interred. The first
recorded burial was for Catherine Elizabeth Pearson (age 36 years) on 19 th February, 1878.
There are over 1175 recorded burials. . ashes only /; photographs of stained glass windows;
photogs of cemetery and church; list of Reverands. Rev back on 15.10.01
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St Barnabas Memorial Garden is now situated in a corner of St Saviour’s Cemetery. In the
late 1990s St Barnabas Church was sold and the ashes of these interred were relocated to
St Saviour’s unless relatives chose to inter them elsewhere. Ashes only? photo of
stained glass windows; Rev back on 15.10.01