The Gundaroo Catholic Pioneer Cemetery is on the Sutton Road opposite the beginning of Back Creek Road [Coordinates: ] a few kilometres south of Gundaroo, New South Wales, Australia.
The new entranceway to the Gundaroo Catholic Pioneer Cemetery.
A plaque at the entranceway says:
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.
A good description of this cemetery is at The Catholic Cemetery at Gundaroo. A plan and transcript of headstone inscriptions is available there also. A history is available via Christopher J K Flanagan.
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