Waverley Cemetery - South Head Cemetery

South Head Cemetery

South Head Cemetery is situated at the junction of New South Head Road and Old South Head Road, Vaucluse, New South Wales. Although it is in Vaucluse, which is in the Woollahra municipality, it is administered by Waverley Council and is a companion cemetery to Waverley Cemetery.

The cemetery was established to cater for the needs of the population in the growing Vaucluse area; its first interment was in 1869. It was run for some time by a private trust, but management was transferred to Waverley Council in the 1940s. It covers an expanse of 4 acres (16,000 m2) and contains the graves of 6,000 people as of 2008. There are a number of well-known people interred at the cemetery, including Sir John Robertson, former Premier of New South Wales; Australia's first Prime Minister Edmund Barton.; Robert Clyde Packer and Frank Packer, newspaper proprietors, and other members of the Packer family; members of the Fairfax family, also newspaper proprietors; John Norton and Ezra Norton and family, also newspaper proprietors; Frank Clune, author; Sir Walter Edward Davidson, Governor of New South Wales; Roy Redgrave, founder of the Redgrave acting dynasty; Edmund Resch, of the Resch's brewer family; John Charles Wright, former Archbishop of Sydney; former Lord Mayor of Sydney Sir Richard Watkins Richards and the architect Howard Joseland. There is also a memorial to Juanita Nielsen (situated within the elaborate Mark Foy family mausoleum), who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1975, presumed murdered.

  • Sir John Robertson grave, designed by John Horbury Hunt

  • Packer family mausoleum

  • Fairfax family plot

  • Memorial of Juanita Nielsen. The Mark Foy family mausoleam.

  • Grave of Sir Walter Edward Davidson

  • General view of the cemetery

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