Good Afternoon, I may be somewhat late in this thread, so if this has already been mentioned my apologies. The following may be of interest:- '.. Plenary Council of the Roman catholic church in Sydney in 1885 the setting apart of an unconscreated portion of the cemetery separated by a fence or wall for the purpose of '....the burial of infants who die without baptism, and of others, who according to the canonical enactments are deprived of ecclesiastical burials' ie those who marry outside the church, those who suicide.' '..The graves themselves are orientated north south which would tend to contradict the `Order Established in the Mother Country' of a east west location.' Lachlan Macquarie determined 'graves.were to be carefully aligned east and West according to the Order Established in the Mother Country'(See Lionel Gilbert excellent work - "A Grave Look at History").. "..The graves of those with German sounding names are located to the north eastern corner of the old cemetery in a semblance of chronological order. Mutzelburg notes that it was the custom for German Baptists and Lutherans to bury their deceased in chronological order row by row starting at one end of the grave yard [1] However it would appear that this custom was not a religious but rather cultural. Source: Own research. See 'Historical Notes www.terrycallaghan.net '.. The church . followed the Christian practice of having the entrance on the west end of the nave so that the 'spiritual aspirants commence(d) their journey in the West and proceed through the door and the nave towards the sanctuary in the east' Thus representing in allegorical sense the way or path to salvation...The nave ( from the Latin 'navis', ship ) or body which symbolised to Christians the means of transport to their spiritual home' See 'Historical Notes www.terrycallaghan.net Hth Terry _____ [1]Mutzelburg,O., How To Trace Your German Ancestors, Sydney, 1989. p.14.