Half Moon Farm Cemetery - Lower Portland

Half Moon Farm Cemetery - Lower Portland

Cemetery Details
Address:	Upper Half Moon Road Lower Portland New South Wales, Australia
Location:	Half Moon Farm is located at the end of Upper Half Moon Road.
Denomination:	Not applicable
Responsible Authority:	Hawkesbury City Council (see notes below)
Number of Graves:	11
Names Recorded:	13
Period of Use:	1830 - 2000

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LAND AT UPPER HALF MOON REACH, HAWKESBURY RIVER
Compiled by Michelle Nichols (1995)

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Register:

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Feneley, Jean Elizabeth [nee Brown]
Feneley, Paddy
Hern, Mary
Lamb, Michael
McFadden, Shirley Margaret [nee Williams]
Nash, James
Pendergast, John
Reed, Ann
Reilly, Joeseph
Whalen, Hugh
Wood, ??san (Susan)

Map of cemetery:

Notes:

Also known as "St. Rose of Lima Cemetery, Lower Portland"

Permission 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.

Sign at Half Moon Farm Cemetery

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

Unmarked Burials

Information collected from various sources, including death certificates submitted to the Hawkesbury on the Net: Cemetery Register team list the following individuals as being buried at Half Moon Farm Cemetery, where no headstones exist today. They include :

Hearne, John
Lamb, Michael
Moran [nee Howe formerly Harrison], Catherine
Reilly, Ellen
Sullivan [nee Stubbs], Elizabeth
Sullivan, Jeremiah
Woods, Henry James

Credits:

Transcriptions and photography by Jonathan Auld and Michelle Nichols - September 2003.

Special thanks to Coralie D. Hird for her assistance in providing photographs and research information that she had previously undertaken.