Gundaroo Catholic Pioneer Cemetery

The Gundaroo Catholic Pioneer Cemetery is on the Sutton Road opposite the beginning of Back Creek Road a few kilometres south of Gundaroo, New South Wales, Australia.

Gundaroo Catholic Pioneer Cemetery
The new entranceway to the Gundaroo Catholic Pioneer Cemetery
Details
Established1857
Closed1956
Coordinates35.041°S 149.255°E / -35.041; 149.255
Find a GraveGundaroo Catholic Pioneer Cemetery

A plaque at the entranceway says:

This cemetery was gifted to the Catholic community by Donald Roderick Macleod, a Presbyterian.

The Reverend Gilliard Smith was refusing to bury non-Anglicans at the burial ground at Upper Gundaroo, attached to the Anglican Church of St. Luke. The earliest burials here were in 1857 of Mary Hughes and Mugwill & Bridget Donnelly of Bywong. Burials included non-Catholics.

Many Catholic pioneer families such as Massy, Leahy, Booth, Donnelly & Hughes are represented.

Plaque at the new entranceway to the Gundaroo Catholic Pioneer Cemetery.

A good description of this cemetery is found under "Gundaroo Info".[1] A plan and transcript of headstone inscriptions is available there also. A history is available via Christopher J K Flanagan.[2]

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