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Devonshire Street Cemetery

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This collection brings together selected items relating to Sydney’s Devonshire Street Cemetery. It was located at Devonshire and Elizabeth Streets (now Central Railway Station).

The cemetery replaced the Old Sydney Burial Ground and was consecrated in January 1820 and was in use until the 1860s. It was sometimes referred to as the New Sydney Burial Ground.

Devonshire Street Cemetery actually consisted of a number of cemeteries for different denominations. The Roman Catholics and Presbyterians were given land in 1825. Land was later granted to the Jewish community, Wesleyans, Quakers and Congregationalists.

By the 1840s a number of the burial grounds we becoming overcrowded. The cemeteries were formally closed to new burials in 1867, following the opening of The Necropolis at Haslem’s Creek, although burial to family vaults and graves could continue if approved.

By 1878 the burial grounds were neglected and the City had grown around them. It was not until 1901 that the NSW Government resumed the Devonshire Street Cemetery to make way for Central Railway Station.

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Dictionary of Sydney – see link on this page.

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Letter - Potential conversion of Devonshire Street Cemetery into public park, 1897

Letter - Complaint about horrible stench from cemetery in Devonshire Street Sydney, 1897

Letter - Request to move lamp in Church of England Cemetery, Belmore and Elizabeth Streets, 1885

Memorandum - Need to remove cemetery and slaughterhouse from City, 1860

Memorandum - Report by Health Officer on poor state of the Church of England Cemetery, 1868

Letter - Authority to accept remains from St Andrews Cemetery at Rookwood Necropolis, 1869

Letter - Request to erect building in Catholic portion, Devonshire Street Cemetery, 1882

Information file - Old Burial Ground, Devonshire Street and Rookwood Cemeteries

File - Remove kerbing to lay siding to remove bodies Devonshire Street cemetery, 1901

Deputation to Mayor from Australian Historical Society, Cemetery and old buildings, 1901

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Glass Negative - Quaker cemetery and Friends Meeting House, Devonshire Street Haymarket, circa 1901

Mortuary Station, Regent Street Chippendale, 1989

Home of the Good Samaritan Female Refuge and Devonshire Street cemetery, circa 1890

Devonshire Street Cemetery, Haymarket, 1890

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City of Sydney, 1854: Single sheet

Plans of Sydney (Rygate & West), 1888: Sheet 40

City of Sydney (Sheilds), 1845: Single sheet

Books & Journals

Sydney cemeteries: a field guide/ Lisa Murray

Gravestone inscriptions, N.S.W. Volume 1. Sydney burial ground: Elizabeth and Devonshire Streets Th

External linksDictionary of Sydney

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Devonshire Street Cemetery