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PMB Commercial Road Cemetery - Wesleyan cemetery

Map of cemetery drawn by Mr. D. Buckley.

  19-11-2022

PMB Commercial Road Cemetery - Roman Catholic Section

There is no plan or register of the Catholic cemetery, nor does there appear to have ever been one, and the graves themselves are unnumbered and randomly arranged.

I have divided the cemetery plan into 6 rough blocks as indicated in the accompanying sketch.  Some of the stones are covered completely by earth and grass and may have subsequently disappeared once more.   There is also a list of Indian plot owners which is a bit unsatisfactory as the original compiler of the list seems to have been only semi-literate.  Most of the Indian and Black graves are in Block F which has very few gravestones.  Blocks A, B, C & D are parishioners' graves.  Block E was used by the religious orders of priests, nuns and brothers. 

HISTORY:  The burial ground was granted to the Roman Catholic community in 1850.  At this point it measured only 1 acre 30 perches.  An extension was granted in October 1884 which doubled its size.  The earlist gravestone surviving in the cemetery is that of Sarah Doyle who died on 18 June 1854 aged 37.  She was the wife of Dennis Doyle, an ex-45th Regiment soldier.

Neil Bloy

  19-11-2022

Harcourt Black Diary - transcript

BLACK DIARY OF JOHN THOMAS DAVIS HARCOURT
(given to William Douglas HARCOURT, his son)

Transcribed by Sue Mackay and proofread by Geoff Chew

  07-04-2022

Harcourt Red Diary - transcript

RED DIARY OF JOHN THOMAS DAVIS HARCOURT
(given to William Douglas HARCOURT, his son)

Transcribed by Sue Mackay and proofread by Geoff Chew

  07-04-2022

Books transferred to CPUT from GISA

The list of books that was transferred to the CPUT library from the now closed GISA.

  19-11-2020

eGGSA Annual Report 2019

The Annual Report for the year ending 2019.

  13-02-2020

eGGSA Annual Report 2018

The Annual Report for the year ending 2018. 
revision 01 - financial statement corrected

  22-01-2019

eGGSA Annual Report 2017

The Annual Report for the year ending 2017.

  24-01-2018

eGGSA Annual Report 2016

The Annual Report for the year ending 2016.

  04-02-2016

eGGSA Annual Report 2015

The Annual report for the year ended 31st December 2015

  07-12-2015

eGGSA Annual report 2014

Activities and Finances for the year 2014.

  04-10-2014