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Transcription of the headstones of John Lewin and TS Amos in Row 4 at Devonshire Street Cemetery from AG Foster's records c1900

By
Arthur George Foster
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[B 765, p91 File 1: Epitaph book of Church of England section of Devonshire Street (Sand Hills) Cemetery, Sydney 1901, compiled by A.G. Foster 1900-1901, with typescript introduction by C.H. Bertie, 1925]
(Mitchell Library)

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Foster, Arthur George

Theodore Arthur George Foster was a historian. He and his wife Ethel Foster documented the Devonshire Street Cemetery in the early 1900s before its removal for the construction of the Central Railway station.

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Devonshire Street Cemetery

Sydney’s Devonshire Street Cemetery, as it has come to be known, was a cemetery of firsts. Not only was it the first time the Surveyor-General grouped a set of burial grounds together; Devonshire Street was also the first time attempts were made to regulate burials and order the cemetery landscape. In use from 1820 until the 1860s, it was Sydney’s second major cemetery.

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Foster, Arthur George

Theodore Arthur George Foster, better known as AG Foster, was a historian. He and his wife Ethel Foster were founding members of the Royal Australian Historical Society and documented the Devonshire Street Cemetery in the early 1900s before its removal for the construction of the Central Railway station.

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Devonshire Street Cemetery

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Burial ground established in 1820 on the outskirts of colonial Sydney to replace the earlier burial ground on George Street. It was the city's main burial ground until the opening of Rookwood Cemetery. It officially closed in 1867, although people who had family vaults or previously purchased plots were still being buried there until much later. Also referred to as the Sandhills Cemetery due to its proximity to sandhills, it was resumed in 1901 to enable the building of Central Railway Station.

Lewin, John William

Australia's first professional artist. A talented artist with an interest in scientific studies, Lewin decided to travel to Australia to paint its natural history. He arrived in Sydney in 1800 and was encouraged by patrons including Governor Philip Gidley King, Governor Lachlan Macquarie, William Paterson and Sir Joseph Banks. He published Australia's first illustrated book 'Birds of New South Wales' in 1813. In 1810 Governor Lachlan Macquarie appointed him to the role of coroner in the town of Sydney and of the County of Cumberland, which he held until his death in 1819. The headstone to his grave was moved from the Devonshire Street Cemetery to Pioneer Memorial Park in Botany Cemetery in 1976.

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Amos, Thomas Sterrop

Solicitor and businessman in early colonial Sydney. In 1817, Amos went into partnership with former convict George Crossley.  

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