St. Peters Catholic Churchyard Cemetery - Burrawang, NSW
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Tuena
S 34° 35.707 E 150° 30.958
56H E 272191 N 6169050
A large churchyard cemetery at the rear of St. Peters in Burrawang.
Waymark Code: WMJNFJ
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 12/09/2013
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The churchyard cemetery has graves dating from 1871 to the present. Early pioneers the McGrath's & the Bresnahan's are buried in the cemetery with the McGrath's grave an outstanding example of the style common in the 19th century.
There are many children buried here from that era. A small gravestone I photographed seemed to indicate three siblings had died however it sits at the end of a grave & the initials denote a relative, grandmother perhaps & two siblings, the eldest 2 years old upon death. The oldest grave I found was dated 1875.
The website Cemetery Register Southern Highlands (
visit link) lists all the graves & inscriptions as well as providing pictures of each.
As at 2007 when the website was last updated there were 108 graves in the cemetery.
The McGrath's headstone reads: In Loving memory of Elizabeth beloved wife of John McGrath native of county Limerick Ireland who died 4th March 1897 aged 69 years R.I.P.