Payneham Cemetery, located on Marian Road,

Payneham South, South Australia Payneham South is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters The City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters is a metropolitan local government area of South Australia. It covers the inner eastern suburbs of Adelaide. It is div ...

was established by the Argent Street

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church with the first burial occurring in 1864.

History

The land (Allotment 107 of Section 285) was purchased by the Argent Street Church Trustees from Henry Ellis in 1846. A Primitive Methodist church was opened in 1859 and burials commenced in the cemetery in 1864. There has been significant grave reuse, to the extent that the cemetery was considered not eligible for State heritage protection in 1990, on 26 October 2006 the 1864 cemetery reserve, all headstones and monuments was added to the local register. Heritage Places Database Search: Payneham Cemetery
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Interments

* Gustave Adrian Barnes (1877–1921) – artist * Fanny Kate Boadicea Cocks (1875–1954) – policewoman and welfare worker *

Henry John Congreve Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, ...

(Harry) (1829–1918) – adventurer, journalist and preacher * Sir

Darcy Rivers Warren Cowan Sir Darcy Rivers Warren Cowan (8 August 1885 – 9 June 1958) was an Australian medical practitioner and advocate of effective treatment of tuberculosis. Family The sixth of seven sons of James Cowan and Sarah Ann (née Warren) and brother of ...

(1885–1958) – medical practitioner and advocate of effective treatment of tuberculosis *

John Creswell John Andrew Jackson Creswell (November 18, 1828December 23, 1891) was an American politician and abolitionist from Maryland, who served as United States Representative, United States Senator, and as Postmaster General of the United States app ...

(1858–1909) – company secretary *

Samuel Forsyth Samuel Forsyth, Victoria Cross, VC (3 April 1892 – 24 August 1918) was a New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that could be awarded at the time to British and Commonwealth ...

(1881–1960) – Methodist minister and Ida Muriel Forsyth née Brummitt (1884–1953) – nurse and community worker *

Richard Witty Foster Richard Witty Foster (20 August 1856 – 5 January 1932) was an Australian politician. He began his career in the Parliament of South Australia (1893–1906) and served two terms as Commissioner of Public Works in liberal and conservative govern ...

(1856–1932) – storekeeper, farmer and politician * Alfred Edward Gerard (1877–1950) – merchant and Aboriginal welfare worker * Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells (1913–1955) – poet and editor * John Grenfell Jenkin (1865–1966) – Methodist minister * Robert Kelly (1845–1920) – pastoralist and politician * William Stanley Kelly (1882–1969) – sheep-breeder and agriculturalist *

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick The Hon Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick (4 January 1848 – 19 August 1928) was an Australian politician, representing the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. He was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 18 ...

(1848–1928) – printer and politician *

Serena Lake Serena Lake (née Thorne) (28 October 1842 – 9 July 1902) was an English Australian suffragist, temperance activist, and evangelical preacher in South Australia. Early life Serena Thorne was born in England at Shebbear, Devon. She was ...

(1842–1902) – evangelist and suffragist * Sir Edward Lucas (1857–1950) – draper and politician * James Waddell Marshall (1845–1925) – merchant * Robert Mitchell (1851–1929) – Presbyterian clergyman *

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls Elizabeth Webb Nicholls (21 February 1850 – 3 August 1943) was a key suffragist in the campaign for votes for women (also called ' suffrage') in South Australia during the 1890s. She took on several high-profile roles in the capital of South A ...

(1850–1943) – social reformer *

Samuel William Pearce Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bi ...

(1848–1932) – prospector * George Searcy (1855–1927) – Australian sportsman, sports official and accountant * Brian Wibberley (died 1944) – minister of Kent Town Methodist Church

References

External links

* * {{Cemeteries in South Australia Cemeteries in South Australia 1864 establishments in Australia