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St Saviours C/E Cemetery
Glebe Avenue Glen OsmondGravesecrets
Headstone List
| This historic cemetery was established in 1855 and is now on the City of Burnside Council's Heritage Lists. Many country and suburban cemeteries were established in connection with local churches. St Saviour's Anglican Church and cemetery was opened in 1855 on land donated by Osmond Gilles at Glen Osmond. With the high mortality rate of the time, many of the earliest burials in the cemetery were of babies and small children. Well-known people including the artists George Whinnen and Archibald Collins and the journalist Ernest Whitington are buried there. The largest family plot in the cemetery is that of the Gilbert family of Linden Park. Mary Jane Gilbert (nee Horton) was said to have gone for the biggest and best in all that she did. She had a bigger house, bigger car and finally a bigger family memorial than any of her relations. In planning a large family burial plot at St Saviour's, Mrs Gilbert requested that another family who had a relative buried alongside her five plots move their departed one, so that she could have eight plots for Gilbert burials. The other family refused. |
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