Rookwood Cemetery (officially named Rookwood Necropolis) is a heritage-listed cemetery in Rookwood, Sydney, Australia. It is the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere[1] and is the world's largest remaining operating cemetery from the Victorian era.[2] It is close to Lidcombe railway station about 17 kilometres (11 mi) west of the Sydney central business district. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.[3]
^"About Rookwood General Cemeteries Reserve Trust". rookwoodcemetery.com.au. Archived from the original on 12 February 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
^Lewis, Wendy (2017). Celebrating 150 years of Rookwood Catholic cemetery. Captain Honey. p. 3. ISBN 978-0646972893.
^"Rookwood Cemetery and Necropolis". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. H00718. Retrieved 1 November 2018. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence.
RookwoodCemetery (officially named Rookwood Necropolis) is a heritage-listed cemetery in Rookwood, Sydney, Australia. It is the largest necropolis in...
The RookwoodCemetery Line used to be a part of the Sydney suburban network. The line serviced RookwoodCemetery and was built in 1864, opening on 22 October...
Australia, there was a similar service whereby the RookwoodCemetery railway line served the RookwoodCemetery complex. From 1867 until 1948 trains would depart...
railway station on Sydney's RookwoodCemetery railway line. Funeral trains departed from the station, bound for RookwoodCemetery. The station found later...
Lidcombe has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: East Street: RookwoodCemetery and Necropolis Joseph Street: Lidcombe Hospital Precinct North of...
Rookwood could refer to: Places: Rookwood, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia RookwoodCemetery in Sydney, Australia Rookwood, Queensland...
Ashfield mansion to a train which transported the funeral party to RookwoodCemetery. There, thousands of Sydneysiders gathered to pay their last respects...
were buried in a coffin marked 'the body of an unknown woman' at RookwoodCemetery. In 1919, Falleni met Elizabeth King Allison, known as Lizzie, who...
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or political nature. Jabar was buried in the Islamic section of RookwoodCemetery. ABC News reported that Farhad Jabar's older sister, Shadi Jabar Khalil...
Ginahgulla, Bellevue Hill, on 16 June 1877. He was buried at the RookwoodCemetery, Independent Section, on 19 June 1877. Of his children, his second...
Sydney in 2006, aged 86. He was interred next to his wife, Doreen, at RookwoodCemetery, Sydney. In November 2006, The Daily Telegraph newspaper of Sydney...
the late 1950s. The oldest operating crematorium in Australia is at RookwoodCemetery, in Sydney. It opened in 1925. In the Netherlands, the foundation...
she was buried with her parents in the Church of England section of RookwoodCemetery. In 1941, The Sydney Morning Herald reported a memorial seat was to...
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outlived her second husband; she died in October 1945 and was buried in Rookwoodcemetery. Sarah Mawbey, wife of John Mawbey (Breelong, 24 July) Ellen Kerz...
demolished in circa. 1904 RookwoodCemetery railway line in Sydney and Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park and Spring Vale Cemetery railway line in Melbourne...
was recorded as "acute gastritis". Charles Andrews was buried at RookwoodCemetery on 5 February 1887. Three days later Louisa approached the savings...
people lined the route from the cathedral to his burial place at RookwoodCemetery. In his panegyric, Cardinal Norman Gilroy praised Cahill as a "man...
Brothers Thomas (c. 1840 – 25 June 1867) and John Clarke (c. 1846 – 25 June 1867) were Australian bushrangers from the Braidwood district of New South...
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