NRS-8297 | Photographic prints of headstones, monuments and plans of Camperdown Cemetery [Miscellaneous Branch, Department of Lands]

The Camperdown Cemetery Act (No. 14, 1948, assented to 21 May 1948), as amended by the Camperdown Cemetery (Amendment) Act (No. 14, 1950, assented to 9 May 1950), made provision, inter-alia for the dedication of part of the Camperdown Cemetery land as a public park, and the appointment of trustees thereof and for vesting the remainder of the land in the Church of England Property Trust Diocese of Sydney. The Act further authorised the removal of human remains, headstones, grave enclosures, and other surface structures from parts of the land, and the interment of such remains; and further provided for the redesign and reconstruction of a cemetery area within part of the land. Section 4 (6a) of the Act empowered the Minister for Lands upon the commencement of the Act, to cause to be compiled an index plan and register of the names and other information in respect of persons buried in the Cemetery, such plan and register to be deposited with the trustees of the redesigned and reconstructed cemetery area. Section 4 (6b) empowered the Minister to cause the remains of any person buried in historic or certain other graves, together with the headstones, grave enclosure or other surface structure erected over the grave of such person, to be collected with due care and removed to the cemetery area abovementioned, and to cause any such remains to be reverently reinterred, and such headstone, grave enclosure or other surface structure to be re-erected. (8/2066A-B). 2 boxes.Note: This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.