The Cemetery at St Katherines
Location - This little cemetery is in the churchyard of St Katherines Church of England on St Helena Road in the area known as St Helena (between Greensborough and Diamond Creek) in the north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (See Melway: Map 11, Reference E11).

This photograph of St Katherines was taken in 2004 and shows much of the "Beale" section of the cemetery. The larger "general" cemetery area is out of picture to the left. The church was almost totally destroyed by bushfire on 28 February 1957. Following a public appeal for funds, it was re-built to similar design and re-dedicated on 17 November 1957.
Brief History - The church was built on his property over several years and completed in about 1860 by Anthony Beale as a place of worship for his family and neighbours and was named "Rose Chapel" in memory of his late wife Katherine Rose who died in 1856.
Anthony was born on the Island of St Helena in the Atlantic Ocean and was one of many generations of Beales to have lived there from as early as 1672 (including others with the name of Anthony). In 1814 he married Katherine Rose Young who was born in Scotland and was on the Island with her uncle Colonel Mark Wilks who was Governor at the time.
Anthony was in the service of the British East India Company as Paymaster with pay and status equivalent to the rank of Major and in about 1836, after the Company's Charter was terminated, he and his family moved to England. Of sixteen children born on the Island, thirteen were still living but, due to a perceived lack of opportunities for them in England, the family migrated to Van Diemens Land in 1839 apart from two of the older boys who remained in England and gained careers in the army and in medicine. In the following year, after the loss of the oldest boy Onesiphorous - believed drowned in the Tamar River - the family moved to the District of Port Phillip (later to become Melbourne) on the Australian mainland where their seventeenth, and last, child was born in 1841.
On 16 May 1876 the church was consecrated by the Bishop of Ballarat. In 1917 the church and burial ground property was transferred to the Church of England Trusts Corporation. Anthony died in 1865 and he and Katherine Rose are buried not far from the church building. Their graves are marked by a double headstone.
The Church Today - The church is still used as a place of worship by nearby residents but frequency depends on the availability of clergy from the Anglican Parish headquarters in nearby Diamond Creek, but at the best of times, probably no more than on every second Sunday. Outdoor sporting facilities have recently been developed on adjacent land that was part of the original Beale holdings. Publicity on that subject says - " A large area of land outside the bounds of church property has been reserved as public open space under the control of the Banule Municipal Council, so that the historic church will always remain in a quiet oasis for worship in a busy suburb".
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Cemetery Layout - The burial ground is divided in two by the central path that leads from the main gates to the church building. The area to the right of the path and nearest to the church is reserved for burials of direct descendants of Anthony and Katherine Rose Beale. The larger area to the left of the path contains the graves of local people, including many pioneers and other notables. That area is now believed to be full and closed to future burials.
Purpose of this Web Page - Much has been written elsewhere about the Beale family and about St Katherines, and it is not intended to write more about that here. (For further information, a starting point might be the office of the Anglican Parish, 61 Main Street, Diamond Creek, Victoria 3089, Australia. Telephone 0394381264 who may be able to supply some information or put you in contact with local descendants and/or historians). The main purpose of this page is to provide an indexed list of all inscriptions on the monuments on the "Beale side" of the path. It is hoped that such a list will be of interest to descendants in general, and of value to researchers of family history in particular.
The Inscriptions - The numbers appearing at the top of each panel in the list are unofficial, local burial reference numbers and do not appear on the actual monuments. Those numbers are also not necessarily related to the sequence or date of burial because they were evidently alloted by a person who mapped the burial ground in relatively recent times.
The wording has been copied as accurately as possible although there are a few instances where the effects of weather and passage of time make it very difficult to read certain letters or numbers on certain monuments.
Inscriptions on monuments and plaques erected since the year 2000 are generally not yet on this list but will be added as soon as possible along with the wording on any plaques on the Church wall relevant to Beale descendants.
This List -
In the case of married females, the inscriptions on the actual monuments show their surname at time of death and those names are listed in this index.
Where it has been possible to ascertain the maiden name (and/or previous married name), those are also listed and cross referenced.
(Click on a name to view the relevant
inscription).
ALLEN, May - see WINGROVE, May (died 2 Sep 1916) ref647
BEALE, Annie Janet (nee McLennan - died 14 Dec 1995)
ref226
BEALE, Anthony (died 4 Sep 1865) ref240
BEALE, Anthony (died 24 Jul 1944) ref231
BEALE, Anthony Harper (died 12 Feb 1951) ref232
BEALE, Emma (nee Bennett - died 29 Jul 1911) ref238
BEALE, Halliburton (died 14 Mar 1899) ref242
BEALE, Ida Ellen (nee Harper - died 30 Jan 1919) ref236
BEALE, Ida Ellen - see MADDISON, Ida Ellen (died 15
Jul 1994) ref428
BEALE, Isabella Margaret - see MAPLESTONE, Isabella
Margaret ref436
BEALE, James Harold (died 21 Jul 1968) ref226
BEALE, James Young (died 6 Jul 1905) ref237
BEALE, John Lindsay (died 21 Sep 1911) ref238
BEALE, John Lindsay (died 7 Jun 1908) ref238
BEALE, Katherine Rose (nee Young - died 5 Aug 1856)
ref240
BEALE, Katherine Rose - see CLARK, Katherine Rose (died
17 Mar 1944) ref286
BEALE, Lilian - see McLENNAN, Lilian (died 21 Jun 1984)
ref453
BEALE, Margaret Lindsay (died 24 Mar 1914) ref241
BEALE, Martha Ann (nee Lewis - died 9 Jan 1892) ref242
BEALE, Rose Ellinor - see FOLEY, Rose E (died 5 Apr
1856) ref343
BENNETT, Emma - see BEALE, Emma (died 29 Jul 1911)
ref238
BLACK, Bertha Louise (died 24 Jul n1935) refL&M
BLACK, William (died 10 Apr 1939) refL&M
BROWN, Emma Nodin (died 23 Apr 1957) ref465
CLARK, John Albert (died 6 Oct 1943) ref287
CLARK, Katherine Rose (nee Beale - died 17 Mar 1944)
ref286
CLEMENTS, Isabel Joyce (13 Jan 1969) refA
ESKDALE, George Robert (died 20 Oct 1928) refI,J&K
EVANS, Marian Francis - (nee Wilcox - died 13 Jul 1973)
ref326
FOLEY, Annie (died 21 Sep 1893) ref340
FOLEY, Augusta Julia (died 6 Jun 1858) ref341
FOLEY, Herbert (died 28Apr1896) ref340
FOLEY, Rose E (died 5 Apr 1856) ref343
HARPER, Ida Ellen - see BEALE, Ida Ellen ref236
HARPER, Lilian (died 23 Sep 1929) ref370
JAMES, Edmund (died 24 Apr 1898) ref398
JAMES, John Hall (died 20 Jan 1923) ref399
JAMES, Lily Pearl - see JOHNSON, Lily Pearl ref399
JOHNSON, Daphne Irene - see THOMSON, Daphne Irene ref399
JOHNSON, Hilda Pearl (nee Johnson - died 23 Sep 1976)
ref 399
JOHNSON, James Edwin (died 10 Sep 1983) ref410
JOHNSON, James Gordon (died 24 May 1961) ref399
JOHNSON, Lily Pearl (nee James - died 16 Feb 1976)
ref399
JOHNSON, Phyllis (died 22 Sep 1910) ref410
LEWIS, Martha Ann - see BEALE, Martha Ann (died 9 Jan
1892) ref242
McCALLUM, Harriett Ann (died 7 Feb 1946) ref444
McCALLUM, Samuel Cameron (died 11 Feb 1939) ref 444
McLENNAN, Annie Janet - see BEALE, Annie Janet ref226
McLENNAN, Donald Duncan (died 21 Feb 1965) ref453
McLENNAN, Lilian (nee Beale - died 21 Jun 1974) ref453
MADDISON, Ida Ellen (nee Beale - died 15 Jul 1984)
ref428
MADDISON, Isobel Ida (died 1998) ref428
MADDISON, Hastings Elms (died 27 May 1973) ref428
MAPLESTONE, Alice Marian - see WILCOX, Alice Marian (died 14 May 1935) ref631
MAPLESTONE, Charles (died 25 May 1878) ref433
MAPLESTONE, Charles Mash (died 18 Jan 1914) ref434
MAPLESTONE, Elizabeth (died 20 Feb 1912) ref434
MAPLESTONE, Isabella Margaret (formerly Nodin, nee
Beale - died 15 May 1888) ref436
MAPLESTONE, Martha (died 21 Oct 1891 ref438
MAPLESTONE, Mary Ann (died 11 May 1863) ref439
MAPLESTONE, Sophy Ann (died 30 Jun 1861) ref440
NODIN, Elizabeth - see MAPLESTONE, Elizabeth (died 20
Feb 1912) ref434
NODIN, Frances Rose (died 7 Jun 1925) ref465
NODIN, Francis (died 149 Apr 1856) ref466
NODIN, Isabella Margaret - see MAPLESTONE, Isabella
Margaret (died 15 May 1888) ref436
NODIN, Katherine - see WINGROVE, Katkerine (died 5 Dec
1907) ref644
OWEN, Eva Christina (died 2 Oct 1969) ref467
OWEN, William Richard (died 13 Jun 1972) ref467
PETTY, Jean (died 4 Mar 1964) refI,J&K
RODDA, Frederick Augustus (died 31 May 1863) ref489
SINCLAIR, Irene Agnes (died 10 Aug 1926) refI,J&K
THOMSON, Daphne Irene (nee Johnson - died 29 Apr 1981)
ref399
TOLHURST, Frederick Edgar Henry (died 1957) refD&E
TOLHURST, Rose (nee ------ died 1967) refD&E
TOLHURST, Peter (died at 18 months) refG&H
WHITE, Alan (died 14 May 1988) refC
WILCOX, Alice Marian - (nee MAPLESTONE - died 14 May 1935) ref631
WILCOX, Marian Francis - see EVANS, Marian Francis
(died 13 Jul 1973) ref326
WILCOX, Lindsay Howell (died 12 Jun 1991) refB
WILCOX, Ilma Jessie Isabel (nee ------ died 24 Dec 1993)
refB
WINGROVE, Bessie (died 1955) ref641
WINGROVE, Caroline Ada (died 25 May 1919) ref639
WINGROVE, Charles Symons (died 16 Jul 1905) ref640
WINGROVE, Francis William (died 28 May 1892) ref641
WINGROVE, Henry Vivian (died Dec 1855) ref641
WINGROVE, Henry Vivian (died 23 May 1865) ref643
WINGROVE, Isabella Margaret (died 24 Jun 1867) ref643
WINGROVE, Katherine (nee Nodin - died 5 Dec 1907) ref644
WINGROVE, Katherine Rose (died 9 Feb 1896) ref645
WINGROVE, Lucy Eleanor (died 9 Feb 1938) ref645
WINGROVE, May (nee Allen - died 2 Sep 1916) ref647
WINGROVE, Walter (died 26 Nov 1936) ref639
YOUNG, Katherine Rose - see BEALE, Katherine Rose (died
5 Aug 1856) ref240
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