Hi Patrick, Just wonderig if you have tried this website http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home my favourite website at the moment. I typed in"balmain cemetery" and got 17 hits including an Alfred Agnew who suicided on his mothers grave and Peter Marshall who died of smallpox in Oct 1881 and was buried there. kind regards Kerry

Hi Kerry Many thanks for your email, I do use the NLA newspaper site but my problem is that there were two cemeteries, quite close to each and both operating from 1868 to about 1910 and both generally known as 'Balmain cemetery' The larger of the two, the Balmain general cemetery is now a park and its burial register has survived, my special interest is in the smaller Balmain Catholic cemetery and the challenge for me is to find records which clearly identify the cemetery as the Balmain Catholic cemetery. Some of your 17 hits do relate to the old Catholic cemetery, but none of the 'burial notices' seem to be mine, nonetheless I do appreciate your interest and thank you for your email all the best Patrick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Hall" <kerry.hall8@bigpond.com> To: <aus-nsw@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-NSW] BURIALS AT BALMAIN CATHOLIC CEMETERY > Hi Patrick, > Just wonderig if you have tried this website > http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home my favourite website at the > moment. > I typed in"balmain cemetery" and got 17 hits including an Alfred Agnew who > suicided on his mothers grave and Peter Marshall who died of smallpox in > Oct > 1881 and was buried there. > > kind regards > Kerry > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-NSW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Patrick and list I know that you have written quite extensively on this but I am not clear on the differences between the 'two' cemeteries. One is now 'Pioneer Park', Leichhardt (the 'Old Balmain Cemetery'). Was the Catholic Cemetery a portion of this and consecrated by Catholic clergy? or was it located elsewhere in a Catholic church grounds? The 1941 conversion Act of Parliament by which the Old Balmain Cemetery was converted into Pioneer Park has a schedule which sets out the boundaries. That Act required the Council (now Leichhardt Council) to do their best to record the names and they claim to have a register which you can inspect. When you said the Burial Register was lost, I presume you mean the Parish Register kept by the local Catholic Church, not the Register required under the Act? For the schedule setting out the boundaries: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/obca1941258/sch1.html For the Council Register: http://www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/Balmain-Cemetery.html Regards 2009/9/15 patrick callaghan <pca96504@bigpond.net.au>: > is that there were two cemeteries, > quite close to each and both operating from 1868 to about 1910 and both > generally known as 'Balmain cemetery' > The larger of the two, the Balmain general cemetery is now a park and its > burial register has survived, my special > interest is in the smaller Balmain Catholic cemetery and the challenge for