Mitcham Cemetery

34°59′03″S 138°37′14″E / 34.9841542°S 138.6205399°E / -34.9841542; 138.6205399Typepublic, Anglican and privateOwned byMitcham General Cemetery – City of Mitcham

Mitcham Anglican Cemetery – Anglican Diocese of Adelaide

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Mitcham Cemetery on Old Belair Road, Mitcham, South Australia is made up of three separate cemeteries: Mitcham General Cemetery, Mitcham Anglican Cemetery and St Joseph's Cemetery. The cemeteries are administered by the City of Mitcham, the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide and the Sisters of St. Joseph.^[1]

The cemeteries had their origins in the 22 April 1854 grant of two acres (0.81 hectares) to the Bishop of Adelaide for the burial of 'Members of the Established United Church of England and Ireland' and another two acres to three trustees for the burial of those who '...had not been members of the Church of England'.^[2]

Mitcham General Cemetery was 'established in 1854 for non conformist or "dissenting" Protestant denominations to compliment [sic] the neighbouring Church of England Cemetery.' Despite being extended on a number of occasions, new leases for burial plots are not being let, however existing leases can still be used for new burials. The first burial occurred on 3 November 1853.^[1]

Mitcham Anglican Cemetery was established in 1854, up to 1953 it was controlled and maintained by members of the local parish of St Michael, and now by the Diocese of Adelaide.^[2]

Interments

Sir Harry Alderman, (1895–1962) lawyer
Ella Cleggett, (1884–1960) schoolteacher and welfare worker
Laura Mary Louisa Corbin, (1841–1906) crèche founder
George Davidson (1855–1936), Presbyterian minister
Edwin Theyer Dean, (1884–1970) army officer
George Henry Dean, (1859–1953) soldier, stock and station agent and grazier
Sir David John Gordon, (1865–1946) journalist and politician
Anne Syrett Green, (1858–1936) welfare worker and evangelist^[3]
William Hague, (1864–1924) storekeeper and politician
Hilda Mary Hanton, (1884–1954) hospital matron^[4]
Kate Hill, (1859–1933) nurse^[5]
Charles Henry Standish Hope, (1861–1942) medical practitioner
Laura Margaret Hope, (1868–1952) medical practitioner^[6]
Walter Howchin, (1845–1937) geologist and clergyman
Sidney Kidman, (1857–1935) pastoralist who owned or co-owned large areas of land in Australia
Ernest Eugene Kramer, (1889–1958) missionary
Lydia Longmore, (1874–1967) infant-teacher
Sir William Mitchell, (1861–1962) scholar, educationist and administrator
John Pearce, (1840–1910) teamster, farmer, carrier and administrator ^[7]
Arthur William Piper, (1865–1936) judge
Thomas Piper, (1835–1928) clergyman
Frederick William Preece, (1857–1928) bookseller and publisher
John Lloyd Preece, (1895–1969) bookseller and publisher
John Lloyd Price, (1882–1941) union official, agent-general and politician
Thomas (Tom) Price, (1852–1909) premier of SA 1905-1909 who died in office
Robert Henry Pulleine, (1869–1935) physician and naturalist
Herbert Clarence Richards, (1876–1949) businessman and motor-body manufacturer
Tobias John Martin Richards, (1850–1939) manufacturer
John Henry Sexton, (1863–1954) Baptist clergyman
David Shearer, (1850–1936) agricultural machinery manufacturer and inventor
John Shearer, (1845–1932) agricultural machinery manufacturer and inventor
Alfred Depledge Sykes, (1871–1940) clergyman
James Gilbert Woolcock, (1874–1957) mining engineer and metallurgist

Anglican Cemetery

Robert Barr Smith, (1824–1915) businessman and philanthropist
Tom Elder Barr Smith, (1863–1941) pastoralist and financier
Frederick William Coneybeer, (1859–1950) trade unionist and politician
Daniel Michael Paul Cudmore, (1811–1891) pastoralist in the early days of South Australia
James Davidson, (1885–1945) ecologist
Sir Thomas Elder, (1818–1897) Scottish-Australian public figure
Felix Gordon Giles, (1885—1950) engineer
Walter Gooch, (1842–1918) merchant and conservationist
Laurence Hotham Howie, (1876–1963) artist and teacher
George Richards Laffer, (1866–1933) fruit-grower and politician
Luther Robert Scammell
Sir William Mitchell, (1861–1962) University of Adelaide Professor, Vice Chancellor and Chancellor, 1942–1948
Catherine Maria Thornber (c. 1813 – 1894) founder of school for girls in Unley Park
Alexander Tolmer, (1815–1890) police officer
Peter Waite
Stanley Holm Watson, (1887–1985) railway engineer and soldier
Lawrence Allen Wells, (1860–1938) explorer

References

^ ^a ^b Mitcham General Cemetery profile, City of Mitcham. Retrieved 6 October 2017
^ ^a ^b Mitcham Anglican Cemetery profile, City of Mitcham. Retrieved 6 October 2017
^ Ellis, Julie-Ann, "Anne Syrett Green (1858–1936)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 25 October 2023
^ Durdin, Joan, "Hilda Mary Hanton (1884–1954)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 25 October 2023
^ Gibberd, Joyce, "Kate Hill (1859–1933)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 25 October 2023
^ Jones, Helen, "Laura Margaret Hope (1868–1952)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 25 October 2023
^ Whittle, Nancy Robinson (1988). "John Pearce (1840–1910)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 11. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 14 November 2017.