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is required by Hawkesbury City Council in order to access Half Moon Farm.
A key is necessary to open the gates at the property entrance. Phone
Hawkesbury City Council on (02) 4560 4444 during business hours.
Above: Information sign at Half Moon
Farm Cemetery.
Information sign reads:
"Half Moon Farm Cemetery documents the burial place of some of the
earliest settlers on the Hawkesbury. All of the monuments in the cemetery
predate the 1856 Civil Register and may be the only record of the
individuals concerned. The cemetery which incorporates monuments featuring
unusual designs and naive scripts dates entirely to the nineteenth century.
The cemetery conservation works were jointly funded by Hawkesbury City
Council and the New South Wales Heritage Assistance Programe."
Above: Headstones at Half Moon Farm
Cemetery
Research undertaken by Coralie Hird
has shown at least seven additional persons buried at the cemetery from death
certificates showing burial at St. Rose of Lima Cemetery (now known as Half
Moon Farm Cemetery), where no headstones
exist today. They include :
- Jeremiah SULLIVAN died 27
February 1862 aged 67 years buried 21 March 1862. Son of Daniel Sullivan
and Ellen nee Conners.
- Elizabeth SULLIVAN died 7
December 1873 aged 73 years. Elizabeth was the wife of Jeremiah Sullivan
and the daughter of William Stubbs and Sarah Wingate.
- Ellen REILLY died 20 June 1875
aged 14 years, 6 months and seventeen days. Ellen was the daughter of
Edward Reilly & Ellen Hearne, born at Webb's Creek and died of
diphtheria.
- John HEARNE (Heron on
certificate) died 23 May 1860 age 84 years. John Hearne was found dead
at St. Albans 23 May 1860 and was buried at St. Rose of Lima Cemetery
(possibly with his wife Mary)
- Michael LAMB died 12 July 1860
aged 86 years. The father of Michael LAMB with the headstone, was buried
at St. Rose's. Michael LAMB (the father) was born abt 1772 Dublin
arrived 1791 "Queen"
convict.
- Catherine MORAN died 13 November
1862 aged 60 years. Catherine HOWE, convict, arrived "City of
Edinburgh" 1828, was first married to James HARRISON and then to
James MORAN.
- Henry James WOODS died 4 June
1866 aged 2 days. Henry was the son of Thomas Woods and Ann Jane Smith
of Lower Portland.
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