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North Brisbane Burial Ground

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many of the headstones in the memorial reserve were removed or destroyed. In 2001, the development of Hale Street into a major traffic route resulted in the resumption of some of the memorial reserve and the remaining headstones were reorganised into an even smaller memorial park behind Christ Church
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began to plan to convert the cemetery, by then an eyesore for the community, into a recreational reserve. However, the council did not control the land, as individual religious denominations continued to have control of their respective burial grounds. By the 1910s, relatives were offered the
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opportunity to exhume and reinter deceased family members or to relocate their headstone or other monumental masonry. The first removals took place in 1913. Over 500 headstones were removed into a memorial reserve, a small section of the Anglican section of the cemetery, adjacent to
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The North Brisbane burial ground was in use from 1843 to 1875, during which time up to 10,000 people may have been buried there. After 1875, the burial ground was closed and new burials were to take place in the newly established
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The burial ground was located across four blocks bounded by Beatrice Street on the north, Hale Street on the east, Church Street on the south and the present-day Castlemain Street on the west. This land is now used as
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Deterioration of Human Remains and Artefacts in the Cemetery Environment: A Study of Archaeological Materials Excavated from the Nineteenth Century North Brisbane Burial Ground, Lang Park, Queensland
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The North Brisbane burial ground was not a single cemetery, but rather a collection of cemeteries operated by different religious denominations.
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Circa 1862 the Anglican Church established a mortuary chapel for the cemetery. The mortuary chapel was demolished in 1891.
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was established in 1825 when Brisbane was established as the Moreton Bay penal colony at present-day Skew Street (near the
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northern endpoint). It was in use until 1843 when the North Brisbane Burial Ground opened.
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and progressively redeveloped into Brisbane's major sporting stadium,
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stadium and Ithaca Swimming Pool and children's parkland (see plans).
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Plans showing the redevelopment of the cemetery, circa 1914
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Looking across the former Paddington Cemetery, circa 1870
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Index

Paddington Cemetery

Town of Brisbane
Queensland
Milton
Paddington

Lang Park

Lang Park
First Brisbane Burial Ground
William Jolly Bridge
Toowong Cemetery
1893 Brisbane flood

Ithaca Shire Council
Christ Church
Lang Park
Suncorp Stadium
Depression
"Showing the Old Paddington Cemeteries and the Present Reserves"
Brisbane City Council
Archived
"First Brisbane Burial Ground (entry 700009)"
Queensland Heritage Register
"Dr Jonathan Prangnell"
University of Queensland
Archived
"Closed Anglican Churches"
the original

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