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Devonshire Street cemetery
On 22 January 1820 the Sydney Gazette published a notice about the creation of a new cemetery on Devonshire Street in Sydney
Devonshire Street Cemetery reinterment index
There are 9000+ entries to search. The Register covers details of remains, and in some cases monuments, from Devonshire Street Cemetery following its resumption to make way for the development of Central Railway Station
The Reinterment of Devonshire Street Cemetery
This webinar explores the records from the NSW State Archives Collection that reveal the history of one of Sydney’s oldest burial grounds and the mammoth job of reinterring those buried there to allow for the construction of Central Railway Station