West Terrace Cemetery – Kylie's Genes Blog

Headstones & Memorials

January 18, 2013 by kira0030 5 Comments

I went to the West Terrace Cemetery this morning looking for the grave of James and Mary Chapman but had no luck finding it. I was thrilled, though, to find the following plaque commemorating Mary and Robert Thomas. This is what is says: Mary and Robert Thomas were among the first South Australian colonists, arriving with … [Read more…]

Victorian Funeral Re-enactment

May 28, 2012 by kira0030 2 Comments

Sunday I went to the Adelaide Cemeteries Authority and Victoriana Society of SA‘s re-enactment, at West Terrace Cemetery Adelaide, of John Luke Monck‘s funeral in 1880. With a lot of pomp and ceremony the horse drawn hearse made its way up West Terrace and into the cemetery. I was pleasantly surprised by the size … [Read more…]