Celtic Cross

‘The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea,

The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and me.

Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree’s shade,

Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,

The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.’

Thomas Gray ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’

Cemetery Transcripts

Branxton General Cemetery
Branxton Catholic Cemetery

Brunkerville
Mount Vincent Cemetery.
Maitland Cemetery – on CD

Wallsend Cemetery
Singleton Queen Street Cemetery
Singleton Whittingham Cemetery

BDM CD

Birth death and marriage records for NSW, Victoria, South Australia, Western
Australia and Tasmania.

 Australian Vital Records Index 1788 – 1905

 Vital Records Index British Isles 1538 – 1888

References:

Gilbert, L. A Grave Look at History. Glimpses of a Vanishing Form of Folk Art. 1980. ( recommended reading)

Baldock, John. The Elements of Elements of Christain Symbolism. 1991

Gazis, J. Grave Terminology.

Sagazio,C. (ed.) .Cemeteries: Our Heritage. 1992. (Victoria cemeteries)