Blackwood Cemetery
LocalHistory
The Blackwood cemetery was first Gazetted in 1860, but burials are recorded as far back as 1855. The Cemetery Trustee is Michael Small.
A link to a 2007 list of names on headstones in the Blackwood Cemetery compiled by Rootsweb Ancestry is on their website
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http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausvsac/Blackwood.htm Rootsweb Ancestory
For further information on the Blackwood Cemetery or for Cemetery Trust Records contact -
BLACKWOOD CEMETERY TRUST
Mr Michael Small, Secretary
PO Box 59
Blackwood 3458
H 54223 883
OR for information on records of pioneers of Blackwood or cemetery records contact -
Margot Hitchcock, Historian, Blackwood & District Historical Society.
email .. margothitchcock@bigpond.com
P.O. Box 43, Blackwood 3458. Vic.
History of Blackwood Books Available
Photos of the Blackwood Cemetery courtesy Margot Hitchcock, Historian, Blackwood & District Historical Society
Photo of Matthew Rogers Vault, - "one of the most costly memorials of a pioneer and his kin that has been erected on any goldfield in the Commonwealth."