Bendigo and Other Local Cemeteries
Grave Photos and Burial List
Products page
Some Bio Articles from some of Bendigo's early pioneers
Some German headstones Self Tour in the Bendigo Cemetery
Selected Self Tour 2 graves in the Bendigo Cemetery
Self Tour of selected graves in the Kangaroo Flat Cemetery.
These products has been compiled by Ian & Pat Belmont and Tom & Libby Luke.
Copyright 2015 ©
The Bendigo Cemetery is in Victoria Australia
with 43600 photos and full burial list to 2018
While the Bendigo Cemetery is the main cemetery in the Bendigo area
there are 4 other main cemeteries, each dating back to the 1850's goldfields era
The 2023 compilation now includes many obituaries, some early local history and some murder stories
as well a full pdf copy of the Raywood booklet "LIFE, DEATH & GOLD IN THE WHIPSTICK"
is included in the 2023 USB compilation. The White Hills cemetery is a new data set for 2023.
A feature of the new 2023 USB, are the monumental section maps showing individual grave locations
for Bendigo and White Hills cemetery.
Compilers' email address is info.graves@gmail.com
or select this link
Ian
Do you have someone buried in the Bendigo Cemetery or the White Hills Cemetery?
Do a search of the web site for Remembrance Parks Central Victoria and its online data base to find out.
Or ask a question via email to Ian at info.graves@gmail.com
A new code/ interment number can now be seen on pages produced by the Deceased Search page for the RPCV.
The new White Hills Cemetery data, uses new photos taken in 2023 by Allan Davis.
The White Hills Cemetery with new data is now available for purchase (Oct 2023).
If you are having trouble, email info.graves@gmail.com, with details
- SURNAME and GRAVE NUMBER and YEAR -
and I will try and help.
Bendigo Cemetery
Headstone Photos and Burial List
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Monumental Headstone photos and burial list. 2014 ©
This product was first released on 22nd October 2014
HTML Format for computer record via USB drive.
The Bendigo Cemetery is the main cemetery of the five cemeteries in the Bendigo area and administered by Remembrance Park Central Victoria (RPCV).
USB prices in Australian dollars:
The latest, just completed, project was a major update of photos and burial list (2020) for the Kangaroo Flat Cemetery.
Two exciting things in the wind. A new book on the 'History of the Bendigo Cemetery' is being written. And a update of new grave photos for the White Hill Cemetery.
A USB product called “Bendigo & Regional Cemeteries” is available for purchase.
This product contains the five main cemeteries of Bendigo (Bendigo, Axedale, Eaglehawk, Kangaroo Flat, and White Hills) plus regional smaller cemeteries like Goornong, Marong and Raywood, each photographed in 2015, along with Lockwood, Tarnagulla, Waanyarra and Runnymede (& Elmore burial List 1994).
People who purchase this USB, “Bendigo & Regional Cemeteries”, will be notified and entitled to new versions of any updates for just the cost of postage.
The Raywood Cemetery compilation with photos, full burial list and a grave location map is complete. The compilation includes detailed obituaries for most burials from the newspaper archives dating from 1865.
These archives formed the basis for a 117 page booklet called "LIFE, DEATH & GOLD IN THE WHIPSTICK".
This booklet includes short descriptions, obituaries and stories, written in the 1860s, 1870s and later, by the correspondents of the day, describing life in the goldfields of Bendigo's Whipstick, centred on Raywood, Neilborough, Sebastian, and Myers Creek.
The USB "Bendigo & Regional Cemeteries" is priced at $140 plus $9 for p&h for Australian mail addresses.
There are 83,000 images and other information pages on this USB.
The Bendigo Cemetery.
This project has produced a complete cemetery burial list with hyper links to monumental headstone photographs.
There are 130 monumental section areas in the cemetery, with 42,500 photos and notes with more details of some individuals for hard to read headstones, some listings of multiple burials in bigger graves and some information like occupation and last place of living.
A feature of the latest version of the Bendigo Cemetery data (2022) are the 103 section maps for the monumental areas, showing grave locations with name and grave number, and the 600 plus obituaries for well known and lesser known people buried the Bendigo Cemetery.
Bendigo Cemetery has 56,000 interments and this project incorporates a full burial list. The Lawn Cemetery sections were not photographed, in full as part of this project but burials are included in the full burial list.
Municipality of Bendigo
Bendigo is 150 kilometres northwest of Melbourne, 225 metres above sea level and is strategically located at the junction of rail links in central Victoria. It’s the geographic heart of Victoria.
The cemetery officially opened for burials in February 1858 and was gazetted in 1875.
The Bendigo Cemetery is managed by the Bendigo Cemeteries Trust. The Trust was formed in June 1988 and amalgamates the former council cemeteries Bendigo, Eaglehawk, Kangaroo Flat, White Hills and Axedale.
Originally the present Bendigo Cemetery was known as Back Creek Cemetery. Later Back Creek Cemetery was called the Sandhurst Public Cemetery. In 1892 the City of Sandhurst reverted back to being known as Bendigo and the cemetery duly changed its name to Bendigo Public Cemetery.
Bendigo's Cemeteries are open museums telling the story of the regions development.
Of the five cemeteries in the Municipality of Bendigo, the Bendigo Cemetery is the largest.
The first registered burial was that of Ellen Mowbray Murphy on February 1, 1858 age 3½ years. Her headstone is now showing wear and a photography project like this aims to at least keep a digital record of these old sandstone headstones.
LAWN CEMETERY and MEMORIAL WALL AREAS
The main Lawn Cemetery and Memorial Wall areas on the southern side of the cemetery will be photographed in another stage of this project. That being said, there are still over 43,000 images, pdfs and web pages that make up this data set.
TO USE THIS PRODUCT:
• Select the Headstone Photographs page. Select the starting letter of the surname you are searching for. The burial list is set up in alphabetical order, or you can find the name much quicker by using the search window (Control & F).
• A second search feature is to use the pdf file linked to each letter. This file has a continuous list of names for that letter.
Use the search window (Control & F) find the name more quickly.
A search hint for people in the same grave is to use the Grave # in the search box.
Click the blue text link to display a headstone photograph.
There is one overview photograph of each grave, with an additional close up photo of the headstone or plaque. Clicking on the photograph will in some cases enlarge it further.
A few photographs were enhanced to help read the headstone.
Notes from other AIGS records, when included, will help with unreadable photographs. Some additional notes/biographical details have been supplied for notable people buried in the cemetery.
On this disk there are many links to web sites on the internet. An active internet connection is required to use these links.
We suggest the data be copied to your computer hard drive from the USB, then keep the USB safe as your backup copy. To do this, copy the data much the same way as when you make an emergency backup copy of any disk. This is a very large data set and may take about an hour to copy to your hard drive. Create a desktop shortcut from the index.htm file to display the information in your web browser.
Contact the compilers via their email address if you require more information about copying the disk. They will be happy to try and help.
The Maps & Cemetery Layout page shows aerial photos of the cemetery taken at a low altitude, section area maps and lawn cemetery maps. Each map has a link to print to A4 size maps from the USB.
The Other Disks and Products page lists other products made by the compilers. The book page is worth a read if looking for cemeteries in Bendigo.
To purchase a disk, send an order via the compiler's email address and include your postal address.
Via return email, an order number and payment details will be supplied -
either bank transfer details, personal cheque or postal order.
Email address for sales information. Ian & Tom