Gundaroo Catholic Pioneer Cemetery | |
Established: | 1857 |
Closed: | 1956 |
Location: | Gundaroo, New South Wales |
Country: | Australia |
Findagraveid: | 2398518 |
The Gundaroo Catholic Pioneer Cemetery is on the Sutton Road opposite the beginning of Back Creek Road a few kilometres south of Gundaroo, New South Wales, Australia.[1]
A plaque at the entranceway reads:
This cemetery was gifted to the Catholic community by Donald Roderick Macleod, a Presbyterian.The Reverend Gilliard Smith was refusing to bury non-Anglicans at the burial ground at Upper Gundaroo, attached to the Anglican Church of St. Luke.The earliest burials here were in 1857 of Mary Hughes and Mugwill & Bridget Donnelly of Bywong.Burials included non-Catholics.Many Catholic pioneer families such as Massy, Leahy, Booth, Donnelly & Hughes are represented.