THE CEMETERY AT GOONYAN, NEW SOUTH WALES.

This Cemetery is approximately 400m east of Goonyan Homestead.
It can be reached by driving 6km north-west from Murrumbateman
towards Yass and turning right (eastwards) down Goonyan Road.
The turning to the old homestead and cemetery is a further 2km on the right.
There are many graves with no memorials.

The location of the cemetery is Lat 34.55.30 S,  Long 149.00.45 E 

The numbers refer those in the cemetery diagram.


1    Winnie A Davis died 6.5.1882 aged 4, daughter of
     Andrew and Mary Davis
2    Thomas Davis died 11.3.1882 aged 2 yr 9 mo
3    [no memorial]
4    W Davis died January 1862 [broken headstone]
5    John Puckett died 8.1.1869 aged 53
6    George Davis died 16.11.1895 aged 81
7    Mary Ann Davis died 17.5.1894 aged 78, wife of
     George Davis
8    Mary Davis died 29.8.1889 aged 113
9    George Davis died 15.12.1867 aged 89
     leaving an aged widow and 130 children, grandchildren
     and great-grandchildren
10   John Puckett died 31.10.1927 aged 88
11   Emily Frances Davis died 9.4.1919 aged 50, wife of
     Andrew Davis
12   E C Davis
13   A R Davis
14   [no memorial]
15   Mary Ann Davis died 5.8.1889 aged 33, wife of
     Andrew Davis, and their children
        Alice Rebecca Davis died 24.12.1902 aged 27
        Edwin Charles Davis died 9.3.1902 aged 9
16   P O M Davis died 17.1.1889 aged 8 yr 9 mo
17   Hannah Davis died 17.7.1880 aged 67, wife of
     George Henry Wright
18   Thomas Jones died 11.9.1844 aged 44
19   James Davis died 18.2.1899 aged 80
20   Samuel Davis died 26.10.1918 aged 69
21   Darcy Kenneth Davis born 10.6.1893 died 11.3.1894 aged 9 months
22   Rachel Buckmaster died 24.5.1901 aged 38, wife of
     James Buckmaster
23   William Davis died 7.5.1903 aged 78
24   Mary Davis died 23.9.1906 aged 85, wife of
     William Davis
25   [no memorial]
26   Alfred Thomas Davis died 7.7.1933 aged 78
27   Rosa Ann Davis died 25.1.1909 aged 44, wife of
     Alfred Davis
28   Matthew Davis died 17.6.1948 aged 79
29   Laura Hannah Davis died 5.3.1904 aged 32
30   Elizabeth Davis died 13.1.1921 aged 75, and her husband
     William Davis died 26.5.1924 aged 78
31   Edith Puckett died 9.1.1907 aged 54 yr 9 mo
32   Rene Myrtle Davis died 28.5.1907, infant daughter of
     W T and L Davis
33   William Buckmaster died 8.6.1953 aged 83 and his wife
     Marion Buckmaster died 31.12.1953 aged 80
34   George Arthur Davis died 16.6.1972 aged 69, husband of
     Winifred Davis
35   Jean Marjorie Davis died 5.1.1928 aged 15 months
36   Bertie Olga Buckmaster died 9.7.1964 aged 70
37   Edwin Henry Buckmaster died 18.8.1948 aged 59
38   Gladys Buckmaster died 15.5.1938 aged 42
39   James Benjamin Buckmaster died 11.9.1936 aged 74
40   Elsie Edna Buckmaster born 24.9.1907 died 25.11.1907 aged 2 months,
     daughter of J and E Buckmaster
41   Joseph Buckmaster died 17.1.1906 aged 71, and his wife
     Alice Buckmaster died 14.5.1920 aged 83
42   Eveline Ada Davis died 27.1.1945 aged 52
43   William James Davis died 19.9.1953 aged 76
44   Lindon Joseph Hayes died 11.3.1910 aged 1 month, son of
     J and E Hayes
45   James Davis died 3.11.1934 aged 89, and his wife
     Elizabeth Davis died 5.10.1938 aged 84, and their son
     Alfred Charles Davis died 6.8.1942 aged 67
46   Emma Amelia Peet Davis died 26.2.1973 aged 90, and her husband
     Darcy Clement Kay Davis died 26.3.1964 aged 73,
     and their great-granddaughter
     Cheryl Lee Puckett died 10.3.1965
47   Eric E Davis died 12.1.1921 aged 5
48   Max Davis died 23.12.1949 aged 68
     Christina Davis died 21.12.1959 aged 77
49   Muriel Irene Davis died 30.9.1996 aged 74, and her husband
     Claude Davis died 16.9.1989 aged 67
50   M S Pearl C Davis born 22.5.1884 died 31.8.1924 aged 40
     Elsie J C Davis born 3.1.1900 died 9.11.1933 aged 33
     George Thomas Davis died 24.12.1914 aged 59
     Johanna Charlote Davis died 23.6.1942 aged 85
     Pvt Varney E S Davis died of wounds in France 28.9.1917 aged 23
51   Charlotte E Margules died 9.4.1896 aged 66
52   Francis Garner died 13.3.1890 aged 25
53   Collin Guy Garner died 19.7.1904 aged 2 yr 3 mo, son of
     James and Esther Garner
54   Norman Terrence Garner died 17.7.1910 aged 14, son of
     James and Esther Garner
55   George James Garner died 8.12.1916 aged 57, and his wife
     Esther Garner died 16.7.1934 aged 74
56   Mervyn Davis died 27.1.1977 aged 60
57   R S O Davis died 27.4.1929 aged 39
58   Vivian Charles Heralda Davis died 8.6.1986 aged 97, and his wife
     Selina Davis died 19.9.1974 aged 79
59   Audrey Davis died 24.9.1916 aged 7 months
     Joynton Davis died 7.11.1918 aged 6 months
60   Walter James Petty 1877 - 1958
61   James Petty died 27.4.1916 aged 68, and his wife
     Mary Jane Petty died 19.2.1937 aged 93
62   John Williams died 7.3.1891 aged 62


OTHER KNOWN BURIALS IN THIS CEMETERY


a    Laura Jane Petty born 1867, married William Burgess 14.1.1897,
     died 18.5.1898 aged 30.


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Compiled by
Graeme Challinor
February 1998
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