02. St Annes Cemetery

View of St Anne's Cemetery, several headstones stand in the grass, under the shade of a tall tree

Year started

1826

Year closed

1899 followed by at least 40 ‘illegal’ burials to 1916.

About St Annes Cemetery

Typical of an old English churchyard. The widening of Victoria Road caused some headstones to be moved, and 27 burials were reinterred in the Field of Mars Cemetery. The present cemetery includes memorials to:

  • Abraham Pain (Payne) a Second Fleet convict who has the oldest marked grave 1826.

  • First Fleet convicts include James Bradley, Edward Goodin, Joseph Hatton, John Small, Ann Smith (with memorials), Richard Hawkes, and Betty Jackson (without memorials).

  • Reverend William Henry, London Missionary Society (formed in 1793) who preached the first sermon in the Field of Mars in 1798 and who served two terms in Tahiti.

  • Reverend George Weaver Turner whose wife, Mary, came from Ryde on the Isle of Wight.

  • The Pope family, also from the Isle of Wight.

  • The Farnell family plot includes James Squire Farnell the first Australian born Premier of NSW (1877-1818) and a grandson of James Squire, Australia's first commercial brewer.

  • William Forster, Premier of NSW 1859-1860. He was a grandson of Gregory Blaxland.

  • Edward Terry of Eastwood House, the first Mayor of Ryde (1871). Master of the Sydney Hunt Club which chased dingoes with hounds at Eastwood. Terry was buried seven years after the cemetery was closed and the undertaker was fined £10.

  • Lady Eleanor Parkes, the second wife of Sir Henry Parkes.

  • Emma Oxley (nee Norton) wife of the explorer and Surveyor General, John Oxley RN.

  • Maria Ann Smith, 'Granny Smith'.

  • The Barton family plot includes Rose lsabella, the mother of Andrew Barton Paterson, the Australian poet.

  • Joseph Hatton of Hattons Flat.

Location

44-46 Church Street, Ryde 2112  View Map

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