North Brisbane Burial Ground, Milton and Paddington, Queensland

Date: 1843 to 1875
Location: Milton, Queensland (Australia)
Surnames/tags: Cemeteries Queensland

Cemetery name: North Brisbane Burial Ground

Address: Milton, Queensland

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The North Brisbane Burial Ground was a former cemetery in the Town of Brisbane, Queensland, (Australia); in use from 1843 to 1875. It was in the area now known as the suburbs of Milton and Paddington; located across four blocks bounded by Beatrice Street on the north, Hale Street on the east, Church Street on the south and the present-day Castlemain Street on the west. ^[1] It was also known as North Brisbane Cemetery, Paddington Cemetery and Milton Cemetery.

It is estimated that 10,000 interments may have been made.

The North Brisbane Burial Ground was not a single cemetery, but rather a collection of cemeteries operated by different Christian denominations and other religious bodies.

It replaced the first Brisbane Burial Ground, established in 1825 when Brisbane was established as the Moreton Bay penal colony at present-day Skew Street (near the William Jolly Bridge northern endpoint). After 1875, the North Brisbane Burial Ground was closed and new burials were to take place in the newly established Brisbane General Cemetery (aka Toowong Cemetery) at Toowong. By the 1910s, Ithaca Shire Council (in 1924 the area came under the control of the new Brisbane City Council) offered relatives the opportunity to exhume and re-inter deceased family members or to relocate their headstone or other monumental masonry. The first removals took place in 1913. ^[2]

In 1914, the area was developed as an athletics field called Lang Park and has progressively redeveloped into the major sporting stadium known as Suncorp Stadium.

Sources

1. ↑ Brisbane City Council Map showing North Brisbane Burial Ground; accessed 4 Mar 2022
2. ↑ The Brisbane Courier (Qld: 1864-1933) Sat 7 Jun 1913 Paddington Cemetery; accessed 4 Mar 2022

• Wikipedia: North Brisbane Burial Ground; accessed 4 Mar 2022.