West End Cemetery
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West End Cemetery
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| Location | Francis Street, West End, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 19°15′58″S 146°48′07″E / 19.266°S 146.8019°ECoordinates: 19°15′58″S 146°48′07″E / 19.266°S 146.8019°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | 1865 - 1930s |
| Official name: West End Cemetery, Townsville General Cemetery | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 4 June 1996 |
| Reference no. | 601475 |
| Significant period | 1865- (social) 1865-1930s (fabric, historical) |
| Significant components | headstone, grave surrounds/railings, pathway/walkway, memorial/monument, cemetery, denominational divisions, burial/grave, tree groups - avenue of, fence/wall - perimeter |
 Location of West End Cemetery in Queensland
Location of West End Cemetery in Queensland
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West End Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery at Francis Street, West End, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1865 to 1930s. It is also known as Townsville General Cemetery. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 4 June 1996.
West End Cemetery, surveyed in 1865, was Townsville's first official cemetery and second burial ground. The first burial ground was located north of the main settlement along the beach in North Ward, but this was abandoned within a couple of years as settlement spread rapidly north around Castle Hill. It was not an officially gazetted cemetery, and was not included in the first town plan of Townsville, completed early in 1865.
The first official Townsville General Cemetery (West End Cemetery) was surveyed along with Townsville's first suburban allotments, west of the main settlement on Ross Creek, in November 1865. It comprised 19 acres of Suburban Section 1 at the base of Castle Hill, and was bounded by unmade road reserves to the west, north and east, and separated from the main track into Townsville (later Flinders Street West) by private allotments. Although not officially gazetted as a cemetery reserve until 1872, the burial ground was used from at least March 1868 when Captain Henry Daniel Sinclair, founder of Bowen, was buried there.
Prior to 1872 there was no official administration of the West End Cemetery. In 1868 a committee was established to raise funds to fence the cemetery, and this was completed by July 1869, but there were no trustees and no burial register was being kept. Finally, in August 1872, the Townsville Cemetery Reserve at West End was gazetted and trustees were appointed, following which cemetery rules were gazetted in July 1873 and a burial register established later that year.
Prior to 1880, access to the cemetery was over privately owned land between Flinders Street West and the reserve. In June 1880 the trustees succeeded in having the cemetery reserve extended to include Lot 1 of Suburban Section 1, a 4 acre allotment adjoining the cemetery and fronting Flinders Street West, in order to create official access to the cemetery from the main road into Townsville. However, this extension was cancelled in 1884 and the land reserved for school purposes. In 1886 the southeast corner of the original cemetery reserve was excised for school reserve as well, and new access to the main road was established with the addition to the cemetery of Lot 4 of Suburban Section 1 (5 acres at the corner of Church Street and Flinders Street West).
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