Cemetery Time Line – Goulburn
1820: Governor Macquarie extended the limit of settlement for the colony, to Goulburn.
1828: First street plan for Goulburn was drawn up. [Located near the current Goulburn Gaol.]
1831: Oldest headstone in St Saviour’s Cemetery. John Weakley aged 3
1833: A new town plan was surveyed a few miles south. [Current CBD location]
1839: Oldest headstone in Mortis St Cemetery, Alexander Fraser aged 50.
1841: Census Goulburn Population 655
1844: First burial in the Jewish Cemetery.
1846: Census Goulburn Population 1200
1856: Goulburn Court House registers Deaths & Place of Burial [records until 1918]
1860s: Most of the Jewish community left Goulburn for Sydney.
1875: Land set aside on Governor’s Hill for New General Cemetery.
Not used until c1890
c1888: St Patrick’s Catholic Cemetery, Kenmore [on Middle Arm Rd] opened.
c1890: Goulburn General Cemetery [Gorman Rd] began use as burial ground.
c1902: Dedication of Goulburn General Cemetery
c1903: Mortis St Cemetery formally closed.
c1920s: New plots not available in St Saviour’s Cemetery.
c1930s: Some burials continued in existing family plots in Mortis St & St Saviour’s.
1943: Last burial in Jewish Cemetery
1947: Last burial at Mortis St Cemetery in a family plot
1957: Last burial at St Saviour’s Cemetery in a family plot