Surry Hills - Devonshire Street Sandhills Cemetery

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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The old cemetery lies underneath Central Railway Station. It was open from 1819 to 1891. Many of the remains were transferred to other cemeteries namely Rookwood, Waverley, Field of Mars, La Perouse, South Head, Randwick, Gore Hill, Manly, Camperdown, St Thomas Anglican Church Cemetery (Enfield), Woronora. Remains were also moved to Botany Bay Cemetery which was also known as Bunnerong, and now is the Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park. This is the link to the burial records for the cemetery that are held by the NSW Government and NSW State Archives. https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/collections-and-research/guides-and-indexes/node/11041646/browse Used 1792-1820 Removed Cemetery (No headstones remain) Address: George Street Sydney NSW 2000 The Devonshire Street Cemetery was closed in 1888. In 1901 the total area of the Cemetery was resumed to make way for Sydney's Central Railway Station. As a result of the area being resumed for the railway, it was necessary to exhume the remains of the persons interred at the cemetery and move them to another cemetery, along with any monuments and headstones. The Public Works Department took the responsibility of liaising with the relatives of those persons whose remains were to be moved. The Department also assumed the cost of the removing and reinterment of the remains, as well as the monuments and headstones. Practically every metropolitan cemetery existing in 1901 appears to have received the remains of at least some persons interred in the Devonshire Street Cemetery. The majority went to the recently established Bunnerong Cemetery, which is today known as Botany Cemetery. A small number were transferred to country cemeteries. Removed Cemetery. Address: Elizabeth Street (approx) Sydney NSW 2000 http://austcemindex.com/cemetery?cemid=6098
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