Cemetery

The Eastern Cemetery is of local historical significance for the association with past residence and settlers of the district, the genealogical and other biographical data contained on the surviving headstones and tomb structures, and of architectural interest for the items of monumental masonry which mark the burial place of prominent local residents

Geelong Regional Commission Register

Victorian Government Gazette - 1876, p.608.

Geelong Advertiser - 3 November 1934 records the following details.

A site for a cemetery was laid out in the first survey for Geelong, dated 1838. In 1876, temporary land grants of 1847 for the Church of England section, and 1849 for the Presbyterian section, were formalized in line with the Cemeteries Act of 1864. V.G.G.

1843 - Church of England Section consecrated

1844 - Land grant for Roman Catholic section.

1849 - Wesleyan and Jewish sections land grants.

1853 - Baptist section land grant.

First recorded headstone is dated 1839.

The cemetery contains a fine array of tombstones and monuments including those erected over the tombs of many prominent Western District pastoralists and the monument to Dr Geddies erected 1878.

A number of significant structures including the Gatehouse are separately recorded.

See the Cemetery Trustees records for details.

Group

Cemeteries and Burial Sites

Category

Cemetery/Graveyard/Burial Ground