Gundaroo Catholic Pioneer Cemetery

Gundaroo Catholic Pioneer Cemetery
The new entranceway to the Gundaroo Catholic Pioneer Cemetery
Details
Established	1857
Closed	1956
Location	Gundaroo, New South Wales
Country	Australia
Coordinates	35°02′27″S 149°15′19″E
Find a Grave	Gundaroo Catholic Pioneer Cemetery

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.

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.

Plaque at the new entranceway to the Gundaroo Catholic Pioneer Cemetery.

External links

• Cemetery description, including a cemetery plan and transcript of headstone inscriptions