Built by the Balmain Cemetery Company as a commercial venture and opened in 1868, Balmain Cemetery contained over 10,000 graves by 1912 when it was closed. Some of the gravestones were moved elsewhere, and the site became Pioneer's Memorial Park in 1942.
Milestone
Opened
1868
{"name":"Opened","target":"","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>1868<\/span>"},"date_start":"1868","date_end":"1868"}
Buried
17 Sep 1869
{"name":"Buried","target":"Blacket, Sarah","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>17 Sep 1869<\/span>"},"date_start":"1869-09-17","date_end":"1869-09-17"}
Buried
23 Jan 1872
{"name":"Buried","target":"Pendrill, John","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>23 Jan 1872<\/span>"},"date_start":"1872-01-23","date_end":"1872-01-23"}
Buried
20 Feb 1873
{"name":"Buried","target":"Stenhouse, Nicol Drysdale","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>20 Feb 1873<\/span>"},"date_start":"1873-02-20","date_end":"1873-02-20"}
Buried
15 Apr 1873
{"name":"Buried","target":"Towns, Robert","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>15 Apr 1873<\/span>"},"date_start":"1873-04-15","date_end":"1873-04-15"}
Buried
29 Sep 1873
{"name":"Buried","target":"Merlin, Henry Beaufoy","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>29 Sep 1873<\/span>"},"date_start":"1873-09-29","date_end":"1873-09-29"}
Buried
17 Nov 1873
{"name":"Buried","target":"Garling, Frederick jnr","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>17 Nov 1873<\/span>"},"date_start":"1873-11-17","date_end":"1873-11-17"}
Buried
08 May 1879
{"name":"Buried","target":"Pell, Morris Birkbeck","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>08 May 1879<\/span>"},"date_start":"1879-05-08","date_end":"1879-05-08"}
Buried
26 Jul 1879
{"name":"Buried","target":"Smith, Thomas Tipple","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>26 Jul 1879<\/span>"},"date_start":"1879-07-26","date_end":"1879-07-26"}
Buried
14 Aug 1882
{"name":"Buried","target":"Smith, Thomas 1829-1882","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>14 Aug 1882<\/span>"},"date_start":"1882-08-14","date_end":"1882-08-14"}
Buried
18 Oct 1882
{"name":"Buried","target":"Brown, Stephen Campbell","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>18 Oct 1882<\/span>"},"date_start":"1882-10-18","date_end":"1882-10-18"}
Buried
20 Oct 1882
{"name":"Buried","target":"Gorman, James","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>20 Oct 1882<\/span>"},"date_start":"1882-10-20","date_end":"1882-10-20"}
Buried
11 Feb 1883
{"name":"Buried","target":"Blacket, Edmund","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>11 Feb 1883<\/span>"},"date_start":"1883-02-11","date_end":"1883-02-11"}
Buried
20 Jan 1896
{"name":"Buried","target":"Reuss, Ferdinand Snr","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>20 Jan 1896<\/span>"},"date_start":"1896-01-20","date_end":"1896-01-20"}
Buried
25 Mar 1900
{"name":"Buried","target":"Simonetti, Achille","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>25 Mar 1900<\/span>"},"date_start":"1900-03-25","date_end":"1900-03-25"}
Closed
1912
{"name":"Closed","target":"","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'>1912<\/span>"},"date_start":"1912","date_end":"1912"}
Type
{"name":"Cemetery or crematorium","target":"","target_text":null,"date":{"#markup":"<span class='date'><\/span>"},"date_start":null,"date_end":null}