Sandgate Cemetery [Newcastle] NSW, Australia
S 32° 52.070 E 151° 42.475
56H E 379115 N 6362625
On the main road north out of Newcastle towards Maitland, is this old cemetery that opened in 1881.
Waymark Code: WMXTPR
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 02/25/2018
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I first came here over 10 years ago looking for a Multi Geocache with my family and some geocaching friends. Not much has changed.
While this cemetery opened in 1881; from concerns that drinking water in the heart of Newcastle could be contaminated from leaching from nearby graves, you look around, you will find headstones from earlier than that, as there was some transfer from Cottage Creek Cemetery in particular. So there is headstones from 1840 here. ['Just' look for the Broken Column Headstone of Archibald Rodgers, as an example, as he was buried at Cottage Creek in 1870, and his daughters also in 1871, and the headstone is close to these coordinates!]
While there are more than 85,000 people buried here, the Cemetery website mentions that there are 'only' 37,000 memorials, as there was transferals from other cemeteries in the 19th century.
Address: 116 Maitland Road, Sandgate, NSW, 2304, Australia
Visited: 1445, 8 July, 2017
City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Sandgate, NSW, Ausrralia
Approximate number of graves: 80000
Cemetery Status: Inactive Maintained
Cemetery Website: [Web Link]
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