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Memorials

The study of family history is about remembering our ancestors, learning from their lives and, where appropriate, honouring them. For centuries descendants have created funerary memorials to commemorate their forebears, including headstones, church monuments, cenotaphs and even extending to mausoleums, pyramids and much more. In recent decades our society has created additional means of commemoration, including funeral cards, obituaries and death notices. This website is, in a way, just another innovation in this regard. This memorial page is designed to present any known memorials for each ancestor in one place. It provides links to pages devoted to each of our deceased ancestors and to other pages that relate to specific cemeteries in which several ancestors are buried.

Jolliffe Another Memorial window for her parents James and Amy Jolliffe
Memorial windows in All Saints Anglican church at Canowindra that were commissioned by my grandmother, Stella Pelissot.

Key cemeteries

Centuries ago most people tended to live their whole lives in a relatively small area. This meant that the graves of several generations of a family could often be found in a single burial ground. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, however, people have been much more mobile than in previous centuries. They moved from farms to villages; from villages and small towns to large towns and cities; and many migrated to other parts of the world. So, it is now more usual for the final resting places of different generations to be widely dispersed. That makes it more difficult for descendants to find ancestors' memorials. This page is designed to bring together information about our ancestor's final resting places and their memorials. Nevertheless, there are a few cemeteries in NSW that each contain memorials to several ancestors, as outlined below.

Bathurst
8 ancestors
numerous relatives

Coonamble
6 ancestors
several relatives

White Springs
5 ancestors
40 close relatives

Bourke
5 ancestors
27 close relatives

Jumpers Flat
4 ancestors
several relatives

Old Balmain
4 ancestors
some relatives

Dapto
4 ancestors
several relatives

Individual ancestor memorials

Memorial pages for each individual ancestor can be accessed from the links below. Where a husband and wife are buried together, they share a memorial page. These links are presented by generation. To access links to the pages of all the members of a specific family, choose the "Forbears" menu item at the top of the page and then click on the name of the particular family. Then scroll down to the memorial heading on that page.