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Blackwood Cemetery

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 -

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."