Just letting all listers know the following information, if you have ancestors buried in the Windsor Catholic Cemetery. The community in the Hawkesbury district are aware that the RTA are constructing the Windsor Flood Evacuation Route which will run from Mulgrave across the South Creek floodplain to Windsor re-joining Macquarie Street near Forbes Street. The work on this road is starting to proceed. As part of this process part of Macquarie Street running alongside the Catholic Cemetery may need to re-aligned. As of tomorrow (23rd) an archaeological team will be fencing off part of the cemetery to advise the RTA on the heritage issues. I attended a meeting this evening where the RTA advised what their plans are. At this stage it seems there are about 3 headstones that may be recommended to be moved. The archaeological team are also going to investigate how many burials are in the affected area, i.e. persons buried without headstones. During 2002 & 2004 the RTA conducted special "Ground Penetrating Radar" studies and identified about 10 maybe 20 disturbances that could be bodies but may not be. The archaeological team will start fencing the area and then conduct some preliminary work and then make some recommendations to the RTA. They will look at all the various options and recommendations. The RTA have been in consultation with the local Catholic Church, Parramatta diocese, the Heritage Office and the community. They seem to be keen to have consultation with the community. They will also release various media reports along the way and I will keep the list in touch as time goes by. Many Hawkesbury families have connection to this cemetery, including the Eather's, May's and most importantly 'my' Pendergast family. Jonathan & I have been recently transcribing and photographing this historic cemetery and will be making it available on the Cemetery Register site in the next 4-8 weeks. We will photograph the works in progress as a historic record. Michelle Nichols

Thank you Michelle for the information re Windsor Catholic Cemetery, I am very interested to know what is going on there as my ancestor Patrick Cullen Atlas 1, was re-interred at Windsor Catholic Cemetery on 22 October 1840 , he died in 1822 and was probably buried on the family property near Pitt Town in 1822. 20 October 1840 saw the opening of the new St Matthew's Catholic Church and the family move to Singleton. He is no longer the first burial in the cemetery as originally thought. Definitely interested in updates. Thanks Sharon Hoyer > Just letting all listers know the following information, if you have > ancestors buried in the Windsor Catholic Cemetery. The community in the > Hawkesbury district are aware that the RTA are constructing the Windsor > Flood Evacuation Route which will run from Mulgrave across the South Creek > floodplain to Windsor re-joining Macquarie Street near Forbes Street. The > work on this road is starting to proceed. > > As part of this process part of Macquarie Street running alongside the > Catholic Cemetery may need to re-aligned. As of tomorrow (23rd) an > archaeological team will be fencing off part of the cemetery to advise the > RTA on the heritage issues. I attended a meeting this evening where the > RTA advised what their plans are. At this stage it seems there are about 3 > headstones that may be recommended to be moved. The archaeological team > are also going to investigate how many burials are in the affected area, > i.e. persons buried without headstones. During 2002 & 2004 the RTA > conducted special "Ground Penetrating Radar" studies and identified about > 10 maybe 20 disturbances that could be bodies but may not be. The > archaeological team will start fencing the area and then conduct some > preliminary work and then make some recommendations to the RTA. They will > look at all the various options and recommendations. > > The RTA have been in consultation with the local Catholic Church, > Parramatta diocese, the Heritage Office and the community. They seem to > be keen to have consultation with the community. They will also release > various media reports along the way and I will keep the list in touch as > time goes by. Many Hawkesbury families have connection to this cemetery, > including the Eather's, May's and most importantly 'my' Pendergast family. > > Jonathan & I have been recently transcribing and photographing this > historic cemetery and will be making it available on the Cemetery Register > site in the next 4-8 weeks. We will photograph the works in progress as a > historic record. > > Michelle Nichols > > > > ==== AUS-NSW-HILLS-HAWKESBURY-HUNTER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Digest mode send an email with the word > unsubscribe in the subject heading to: > [email protected] > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >