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	Rookwood Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rookwood Cemetery (officially named The Necropolis and named when it opened as The Necropolis, Haslams Creek.) is the largest multicultural necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere, close to Lidcombe Station in Sydney, Australia, about 15 kilometres west of the Sydney City central business district.
		Rookwood is most likely an accidental or deliberate corruption of the name Brookwood Cemetery and its associated railway station.
		Rookwood Cemetery is often jokingly referred to as the dead centre of town.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rookwood_Cemetery (400 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Rookwood Cemetery
		Rookwood Cemetery (officially named Rookwood Necropolis) is the largest multicultural necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere, close to Lidcombe Station in Strathfield municipality, Sydney, Australia, about 15 kilometres west of the central business district.
		Rookwood Necropolis, which is located several kilometres from the current geographical centre of the Sydney metroplitan area, near Homebush, is sometimes jokingly referred to as the dead centre of Sydney.
		Rookwood Necropolis, with its tours, diversity and beautiful grounds, is a perfect example of the function of a cemetery as a public space to be enjoyed and utilised by the community at large.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rookwood-Cemetery (1001 words)

	For Peace of Mind
		Rookwood, enclosing one of the largest Victorian cemetery sections in the world, was established in 1868 and also bears the distinction of being the largest cemetery in the southern hemisphere.
		Rookwood was developed as the ideal cemetery, it fitted the requirements of proximity to a railway line, distance from settled areas and grounds suitable to both burial and landscaping.
		Rookwood was conceived in Victorian times and this is reflected in the plants found in the cemetery and their relation to 19th century funerary customs.
	www.forpeaceofmind.com.au /Vol4/cemeteryinreview.cfm (838 words)

	Rookwood Cemetery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rookwood Cemetery is the largest multicultural necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere close to Station west of Sydney.
		Rookwood Cemetery is one of the surviving examples of a Victorian cemetery in world and the largest cemetery in the Hemisphere.
		Cemetery of Scream is an underground Gothic-Metal combo from the dark Poland.
	www.freeglossary.com /Rookwood_Cemetery (370 words)

	Rookwood Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rookwood Cemetery is the largest multicultural necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere, close to Lidcombe Station, west of Sydney.
		The first burial took place in 1867 and the Cemetery was served by a branch railway line with 4 separate Mortuary Stations.
		Rookwood Cemetery is one of the best surviving examples of a Victorian cemetery in the world and the largest cemetery in the Southern Hemisphere.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Rookwood_Cemetery (180 words)

	Rookwood Necropolis Amendment Bill - 07/12/2004 - 2R (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rookwood Necropolis was established in the 1860s and is one of the largest and oldest cemeteries in the southern hemisphere.
		Rookwood Necropolis Cemetery, where more than one million people have been interred, sits on some 300 hectares of land and is one of the largest burial grounds in the southern hemisphere and probably the world.
		The cemetery is managed by six denominational trusts and the Joint Committee of Necropolis Trustees, a committee which oversights the maintenance of joint infrastructures such as the roads and drainage within the area of the Necropolis.
	parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LC20041207019 (2483 words)

	Cemetery Roses - Pat Toolan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In Australia Rookwood and Gore Hill Cemeteries in Sydney New South Wales are the only examples of cemeteries where statutory protection under the NSW Heritage Act has enabled a Permanent Conservation Order to be place on the ornamental/symbolic plantings with particular emphasis on the old rose plantings in the oldest sections of these cemeteries.
		One of the finest examples of a Californian Cemetery with many old roses is San Juan Bautista Old Cemetery District south of San Jose on the old El Camino Real which is the highway that connected all of the Californian missions and later served as one of California’s major stage and wagon roads.
		All cemeteries were enclosed with stone walls and a number had roses but often it was hard to tell their ages.
	www.rosarosam.com /articles/pat_toolan/cemetery_roses.htm (4424 words)

	Historic Rookwood Necropolis
		Rookwood Necropolis, at 283 hectares (700 acres), is one of the largest burial grounds in the world and one of Australia’s oldest cemeteries.
		Rookwood was originally designed in the grand gardenesque style, fashionable in the mid to late 19th Century.
		Friends of Rookwood is a community group dedicated to increasing awareness of the social, historical and cultural values of the cemetery and raising funds to assist in continuing restoration.
	www.strathfieldhistory.org.au /Rookwood.htm (574 words)

	List of cemeteries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane - Proper name "The Brisbane General Cemetery" the oldest and largest Brisbane cemetery opened in 1875, was originally utilised by the earliest colonists.
		Brompton Cemetery- Opened in 1840, it is one of London's Magnificent Seven cemeteries and is the final resting place for a number of prominent persons including Samuel Cunard, Emmeline Pankhurst, Sir Charles Fremantle amongst others.
		Highgate Cemetery, London, is notable for its Egyptian Avenue and Lebanon Circle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_famous_cemeteries (2747 words)

	Teaching Heritage - Building Australian identities
		Rookwood is particularly famous for its elaborate monuments dating from the late nineteenth century.
		Rookwood is the size of a suburb, and reflects social diversity just like any suburb of the living.
		Rookwood provides, through its monuments and gravestones a representative social document in the history of New South Wales, reflecting the origins of our community and changing attitudes to life and death.
	www.teachingheritage.nsw.edu.au /c_building/wc1_sshistorical3.html (594 words)

	smh.com.au - Lack of space poses grave problem for Muslims
		Rookwood may be Sydney's largest cemetery, but space in it is running out for Muslims.
		An option likely to be canvassed is apportioning off a block of Rookwood's general section for Muslim use, but this is only a short-term solution to the wider problem of a plot shortage throughout Sydney.
		The executive manager of Rookwood's Joint Committee of Necropolis Trustees, Lee Squires, believes renewable tenure, where a plot is leased to a family for 25 to 40 years before being on-sold, is the only viable long-term solution to Rookwood's overcrowding problem.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/04/15/1018333463040.html (491 words)

	Graves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shortly after the cemetery opened, a patch of about a hectare was allocated to members of the Fujianese community in Hong Kong, which by the early years of this century had become sufficiently well-established to have set up their own cemetery in 1919.
		The necrotectural(1) design of Sydney's Rookwood cemetery is a typical example of Victorian eclecticism.(2) It encompasses Roman and Greek Classicism, the Gothic in its several guises and even the borrowing of the traditional Egyptian motifs.
		New coffin graves in public and private cemeteries alike are now managed on a cycle of exhumations after a period of six to ten years, with the option at that stage of cremation, or of transfer of remains to an urn grave.
	www.stevenyoung.co.nz /chinesevoice/ChinConf/S4.html (12391 words)

	Rookwood Necropolis Amendment Bill - 19/11/2004 - 1R 2R
		But it is the principal role of the Rookwood Necropolis, as a city of the dead, that has given rise to the amendments in the bill.
		Rookwood Necropolis cemetery, like most cemeteries in the Sydney metropolitan area, is currently experiencing logistical concerns about the decreasing burial space.
		As the Minister said, the Catholic Cemetery Board has been pursuing this matter with the Government and intends to establish a crematorium at Rookwood on land held by it in trust to encourage cremation within the Catholic faith.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA20041119011 (1708 words)

	Losing the plot: city runs out of room for its loved ones - National - www.smh.com.au
		When burials began at Rookwood Cemetery in 1867, thoughtful town planners quarantined 283 hectares to create one of the largest dedicated burial grounds in the world.
		Rookwood's land crisis was initially forestalled by rising rates of cremations, but an influx of migrants in recent decades has brought its own pressures, according to Derek Williams, general manager of the Anglican and General Cemetery.
		With Rookwood built in, and some parts of the cemetery and neighbouring areas quarantined to protect endangered native species, the chairman of the Jewish Cemetery Trust, Jack Hollander, said new cemetery land was difficult to secure.
	www.smh.com.au /news/National/Losing-the-plot-city-runs-out-of-room-for-its-loved-ones/2005/02/08/1107625210053.html?oneclick=true (651 words)

	Popular Articles on Biodiversity: Biodiversity Lives Where the Dead People Go
		But cemeteries across Australia are life-saving refuges for some of the nation's most endangered native plants; even for entire native ecosystems.
		It says cemeteries in suburban Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra, and in rural Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia have become important biodiversity refuges.
		One cemetery in the heart of Adelaide still harbours more than 50 species of native plants which have survived 158 years of European settlement, Biolinks says.
	www.deh.gov.au /biodiversity/publications/articles/cemetary.html (658 words)

	Pattersons in Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		She was buried in 1872 at Yan Yean Cemetery, Whittlesea, Vic.
		She was buried in July 1968 at Rookwood Cemetery, Lidcombe, NSW.
		She was buried in December 1937 at Cof E, Rookwood Cemetery, Lidcombe, NSW.
	surreal.customer.netspace.net.au /pata1.html (813 words)

	Ancestors of Malcolm Kenneth Perrins
		She was buried on 13 March 2003 at Rookwood Cemetery, Rookwood, NSW, Australia.
		She was buried on 31 March 1938 at Rookwood Cemetery, Rookwood, NSW, Australia.
		She was buried on 20 October 1916 at Rookwood Cemetery, Rookwood, NSW, Australia.
	users.bigpond.net.au /perrins/ances001.htm (2380 words)

	Guide to Cemetery Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The database covers the period 1867 to 1905, with 106 pre 1867 burials relocated from Devonshire Street Cemetery to Rookwood in 1901; 1100 graves with headstones; 600 burials without headstones that have been identified and their position located.
		If the cemetery you are looking for is not listed here, you may find it useful to consult the Australian Cemeteries website for contact information and details of record availability.
		Bulimba cemetery (Queensland) [microform] : monumental inscriptions 1995
	nla.gov.au /collect/genealogy/geneaguides/GuidetoCemeteryRecords.html (1785 words)

	Daly 71003 - rjdg02.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		She was buried on 31 Aug 1940 in Sandgate Cemetery RC Section E. Catherine married Martin DOHERTY son of John DOHERTY and Margaret SHEEHAN in 1885 in Lambton.
		Ulick Herbert DOHERTY was born in 1891 in Waratah.
		Ida A DALY was born in 1892 in Waratah.
	www.users.bigpond.com /rjdaly/rjdg02.htm (999 words)

	Phillips - pafg04.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		He was buried in Rookwood Cemetery - Smith Vault.
		She was buried in Rookwood Cemetery - Smith Vault.
		Amy Louisa SMITH was born on 8 Oct 1862 in Brisbane, Queensland.
	www.philyv.spiderweb.com.au /pafg04.htm (1093 words)

	Parramatta City Council: FAQs: Parramatta Heritage Centre: Cemeteries - what information is there on burials in local ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Botany cemetery: transcripts of Church of England inscriptions.
		Bungonia and District cemetery and burial records: a list of people who died or are buried in the Bungonia area 1829-1996.
		This is notation indicates All Saints Cemetery Parramatta, not Field of Mars Cemetery, Ryde.
	www.parracity.nsw.gov.au /faq/cemetery.html (369 words)

	Regents Street railway station, Sydney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Regents Street was a railway station on Sydney's Rookwood Cemetery railway line.
		Funeral trains departed the station, bound for Rookwood Cemetery.
		The station found later use as a part of Sydney Yard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regents_Street_railway_station,_Sydney (177 words)

	Herbert Connections - pafg26 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was buried on 12 Jun 1901 in Rookwood Cemetery, NSW, Australia.
		She was buried in Jul 1877 in Rookwood Cemetery, NSW, Australia.
		She was buried on 17 Oct 1893 in Methodist Cemetery, Rookwood, NSW, Australia.
	www.users.bigpond.com /donherbert1/pafg26.htm (705 words)

	All Individuals - pafg598 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		She was buried on 7 May 1919 in Rookwood Cemetery Sydney NSW Australia.
		She was buried in Rookwood Cemetery Sydney NSW Australia.
		Bertha CHAPMAN was born in 1881 in Canterbury Colony of New South Wales.
	www.airgale.com.au /individuals/pafg598.htm (571 words)

	Death - the last taboo: Remembering the dead - Ching Ming
		King Fong at his father's grave in Rookwood cemetery.
		The Ching Ming ('Clear Brightness') festival has been celebrated annually at Sydney's Rookwood Cemetery since at least the 1880s.
		Families and clan groups (originating from the same village) flock to the Chinese section to honour their ancestors, ensuring continued good fortune for the family and business.
	deathonline.net /remembering/remembering/ching_ming.cfm (255 words)

	Australian Cemeteries - New South Wales- Rookwood
		Rookwood Cemetery, while not the oldest Australian Cemetery, it is in fact the largest.
		These early cemeteries being in poor or less than suitable locations, were overtaken by development.
		The Friends of Rookwood have taken on the role as heritage caretakers of this Australian Treasure, in our place.
	www.ozgenonline.com /aust_cemeteries/nsw/auburn/rookwood.htm (194 words)

	Rookwood Cemetery: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rookwood Cemetery: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		Rookwood Cemetery (officially named Rookwood Necropolis) is the largest multicultural necropolis necropolis quick summary:
		Brookwood cemetery is a burial ground in england....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/rookwood_cemetery.htm (493 words)

	All Individuals - pafg138 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was buried on 3 Jul 1905 in Rookwood Cemetery Sydney NSW Australia.
		She was buried on 1 May 1918 in Rookwood Cemetery Sydney NSW Australia.
		He was buried in Rookwood Cemetery Sydney NSW Australia.
	www.airgale.com.au /individuals/pafg138.htm (612 words)

	Rookwood Cemetery in TutorGig Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		'Rookwood Cemetery' (officially named 'Rookwood Necropolis') is the largest multicultural necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere, close to Lidcombe Station in Sydney, Australia, about 15 kilometres west of the central business district.
		The building which served as a railway station for Rookwood Cemetary between 1868 and 1948 was moved to Canberra in 1957 and became the All Saints Church, Canberra.
		It is often jokingly referred to as the 'dead centre of Sydney'.
	www.tutorgig.com /ed/Rookwood_Cemetery (253 words)

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