
Entering the cemetery through a set of white picket gates you enter the enclosure which measures approximately 35 meters square (40 yards). The enclosure is nearly vacant apart from about ten large pine trees and an impressive stone cross located center rear of the yard.

A few headstones lay on either side of the stone monument and from the number of recorded burials one wonders how the other 30 or so burials were marked. Perhaps they were marked with wooden markers that have since perished or perhaps they were destroyed in a bushfire long ago. Regardless, the exact location of most of the interred souls is unknown, although I believe there is consultation occurring to have an electronic forensic search conducted by the Australian Federal police to ascertain the location of individual burial plots. Unfortunately for the descendants this will not assign names to any discovered grave sites.

From the ACT Government Lanyon brochure (here)(pdf)
'Oral tradition suggests that William Wright's was the first grave, and that the coffin had to be weighed down with large stones to protect it from attack by dingos (native dogs). Equally bizarre was the story of twenty year old Jane Cunningham who died from a ruptured appendix, but as typhoid was suspected, she was buried in haste, at night, with the funeral procession guided by candlelight. All of her clothing - even her lace up boots - were subsequently burned as a protection from infection'.

The Sydney Morning Herald 17-11-1930
NLA article (here)
NLA article (here)
Below is a list of people buried in the Lanyon cemetery. I have organised the list into family groups in chronological order and have noted their order of burial with a number at the beginning of the entry. Key: Number Adult age Child age

No. 01 William Wright 1837 ? years (William died in a shooting accident).

No. 13 Andrew Cunningham 1887 73 years
No. 16 Jane Cunningham 1895 83 years
No. 24 Jane Cynthia Cunningham 1910 20 years
No. 25 Andrew Jackson Cunningham 1913 65 years
No. 28 James Cunningham 1921 71 years
No. 31 Mary Emily Cunningham 1931 61 years
No. 33 Unity Cunningham 1945 43 years

No. 17 Mary White 1889 64 years
No. 18 Martha Mary White 1899 13 months

No. 19 Margaret Noyle 1900 62 years
No. 20 Joshua Noyle 1900 69 years

No. 23 Archibald McIntyre 1905 69 years
No. 26 Peter McIntyre 1916 69 years
No. 29 Johanna McIntyre 1923 71 years

Miscellaneous
No. 02 John Smith 1840 7 months
No. 03 William Glover 1841 16 years
No. 04 James Brown 1861 48 years
No. 05 Catherine Paul 1862 35 years
No. 06 Mary Ann McNee 1867 7 years
No. 07 Mary Ann Hegerty 1868 29 years
No. 08 Henry Girven 1870 8 months
No. 09 John White 1870 36 years
No. 10 Sarah Jackson 1880 63 years
No. 11 Mary Esther O'Neill 1881 7 days
No. 12 John Crawford 1881 52 years
No. 14 Francis Hines 1895 41 years
No. 15 Francis Cecil Wall 1895 6 months
No. 21 Harry Lee 1900 42 years
No. 22 Eliza McDonald 1903 76 years
No. 27 John Wilson 1920 79 years
No. 30 Issac Daniel Cregan 1924 62 years
No. 32 Joan Margaret Nimmo 1940 44 years
No. 34 Jennifer Carol Truman 1975 22 years
No. 35 Mary Paul Dunlop 1978 85 years

The L'anyon Estate cemetery is closed to the public.






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