German Station Cemetery
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Nundah Cemetery
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| Location | 88 Hedley Avenue, Nundah, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°24′27″S 153°04′06″E / 27.4074°S 153.0682°ECoordinates: 27°24′27″S 153°04′06″E / 27.4074°S 153.0682°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | 1840s - 1963 |
| Owner | Brisbane City Council |
| Official name: Nundah Cemetery, German Station Cemetery | |
| Type | state heritage (built, archaeological) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600271 |
| Significant period | 1840-(social) 1840-1963 (historical, fabric) |
| Significant components | headstone, grave marker, rotunda, cemetery, gate - entrance |
 Location of Nundah Cemetery in Queensland
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Nundah Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery at 88 Hedley Avenue, Nundah, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1840s to 1963. It is also known as German Station Cemetery. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The cemetery was established in 1846 by a small group of German Lutheran missionaries who, in 1838, had founded Queensland's first free settlement, at Zion's Hill above Kedron Brook. At that time, the district was known as "German Station", as the earliest settlers were Lutheran missionaries, and hence the cemetery was originally known as "German Station Cemetery". The district was originally outside of the town of Brisbane and was a farming community. At that time, the road beside the cemetery was known as "Cemetery Road". Only one death had been recorded at the German Station by 1845, but several children died the following year, and the cemetery is indicated on an 1846 sketch by missionary Carl Gerler.
As the German station settlement was established in 1838, it is unclear where the earliest burials in the settlement would have occurred. Certainly the site had been established as a graveyard before James Warner first surveyed it as a cemetery reserve in 1862. None of the wooden crosses marking the earliest graves has survived, but the oldest headstone dates to March 1855.
Many of the pioneers of the Nundah district are buried in this cemetery. Although the German Station mission was wound down between 1844 and 1850, several of the missionary families remained in the area. From amongst these settlers the first trustees of the German Station Cemetery were appointed in 1866.
One of the duties of cemetery trustees was to maintain a record of the burials. However, the first recorded burial was in 1887 and it is believed the earlier records may have been lost in a flood. However, even after 1887, the records the trustees kept of burials were somewhat "sketchy" at times. The public can update the Nundah burial records by providing death certificates showing a burial at the Nundah Cemetery.
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