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The Devonshire Street Cemetery, SydneyDate:
In 1901 the total area of the Cemetery was resumed to allow for the development of Sydney's Central Railway Station. As a result of the area being resumed for the railway, it was necessary to exhume the remains of the persons interred at the cemetery and move them to another cemetery, along with any monuments and headstones. The Public Works Department took the responsibility of liaising with the relatives of those persons whose remains were to be moved. The Department also assumed the cost of the removing and reinterment of the remains, as well as the monuments and headstones. Practically every metropolitan cemetery existing in 1901 appears to have received the remains of at least some persons interred in the Devonshire Street Cemetery. The majority went to the recently established Bunnerong Cemetery, which is today known as Botany Cemetery. A small number were transferred to country cemeteries. The NSW State Archives & Records volunteers have indexed the Cemetery Reinterment Register. The Register covers details of remains, and in some cases monuments, from Devonshire Street Cemetery following its resumption. You will find a link to the Reinterment Register in our Genie Links - New South Wales page. Sources:
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The Devonshire Street Cemetery (also known as the Brickfield Cemetery or Sandhills Cemetery) was located between Eddy Avenue and Elizabeth Street, and between Chalmers and Devonshire Streets, at Brickfield Hill, in Sydney, Australia. It was consecrated in 1820 on the orders of Governor Lauchlan Macquarie. The Jewish section was used from 1832. By 1860, the cemetery was full, and it was closed in 1867.