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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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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.

References

  1. ^ "Gundaroo cemetery". The Gundaroo and District Historical Society. 29 March 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2021.