Mitcham Cemetery

Mitcham Cemetery on Old Belair Road, Mitcham, South Australia is made up of three separate cemeteries: Mitcham General Cemetery, Mitcham Anglican Cemetery and St Joseph's Cemetery. The cemeteries are administered by the City of Mitcham, the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide and the Sisters of St. Joseph.[1]

Mitcham General Cemetery, Mitcham Anglican Cemetery, St Joseph's Cemetery
Details
Established1854
Location
Old Belair Road, Mitcham, South Australia
CountryAustralia
Coordinates34.9841542°S 138.6205399°E / -34.9841542; 138.6205399
Typepublic, Anglican and private
Owned byMitcham General Cemetery – City of Mitcham

Mitcham Anglican Cemetery – Anglican Diocese of Adelaide

St Joseph's Cemetery --Sisters of St. Joseph
Find a GraveMitcham General Cemetery, Mitcham Anglican Cemetery, St Joseph's Cemetery
FootnotesFind a Grave: Mitcham Anglican Cemetery

The cemeteries had their origins in the 22 April 1854 grant of two acres (0.81 hectares) to the Bishop of Adelaide for the burial of 'Members of the Established United Church of England and Ireland' and another two acres to three trustees for the burial of those who '...had not been members of the Church of England'.[2]

Mitcham General Cemetery was 'established in 1854 for non conformist or "dissenting" Protestant denominations to compliment [sic] the neighbouring Church of England Cemetery.' Despite being extended on a number of occasions, new leases for burial plots are not being let, however existing leases can still be used for new burials. The first burial occurred on 3 November 1853.[1]

Mitcham Anglican Cemetery was established in 1854, up to 1953 it was controlled and maintained by members of the local parish of St Michael, and now by the Diocese of Adelaide.[2]

Interments
  • Sir Harry Alderman, (1895–1962) lawyer
  • Ella Cleggett, (1884–1960) schoolteacher and welfare worker
  • Laura Mary Louisa Corbin, (1841–1906) crèche founder
  • George Davidson (1855–1936), Presbyterian minister
  • Edwin Theyer Dean, (1884–1970) army officer
  • George Henry Dean, (1859–1953) soldier, stock and station agent and grazier
  • Sir David John Gordon, (1865–1946) journalist and politician
  • Anne Syrett Green, (1858–1936) welfare worker and evangelist
  • William Hague, (1864–1924) storekeeper and politician
  • Hilda Mary Hanton, (1884–1954) hospital matron
  • Kate Hill, (1859–1933) nurse
  • Charles Henry Standish Hope, (1861–1942) medical practitioner
  • Laura Margaret Hope, (1868–1952) medical practitioner
  • Walter Howchin, (1845–1937) geologist and clergyman
  • Sidney Kidman, (1857–1935) pastoralist who owned or co-owned large areas of land in Australia
  • Ernest Eugene Kramer, (1889–1958) missionary
  • Lydia Longmore, (1874–1967) infant-teacher
  • Sir William Mitchell, (1861–1962) scholar, educationist and administrator
  • John Pearce, (1840–1910) teamster, farmer, carrier and administrator [3]
  • Arthur William Piper, (1865–1936) judge
  • Thomas Piper, (1835–1928) clergyman
  • Frederick William Preece, (1857–1928) bookseller and publisher
  • John Lloyd Preece, (1895–1969) bookseller and publisher
  • John Lloyd Price, (1882–1941) union official, agent-general and politician
  • Thomas (Tom) Price, (1852–1909) premier
  • Robert Henry Pulleine, (1869–1935) physician and naturalist
  • Herbert Clarence Richards, (1876–1949) businessman and motor-body manufacturer
  • Tobias John Martin Richards, (1850–1939) manufacturer
  • John Henry Sexton, (1863–1954) Baptist clergyman
  • David Shearer, (1850–1936) agricultural machinery manufacturer and inventor
  • John Shearer, (1845–1932) agricultural machinery manufacturer and inventor
  • Alfred Depledge Sykes, (1871–1940) clergyman
  • James Gilbert Woolcock, (1874–1957) mining engineer and metallurgist

Anglican Cemetery

References
  1. Mitcham General Cemetery profile, City of Mitcham. Retrieved 6 October 2017
  2. Mitcham Anglican Cemetery profile, City of Mitcham. Retrieved 6 October 2017
  3. "John Pearce". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
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