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Note

Date of birth is derived from date of death and age given at time of death so may not be accurate

From its inception Cornelian Bay Cemetery was designed to cater for all religious denominations.  There was also an area set aside for the poor where up to eleven bodies were buried in one unmarked grave.  This section was closed in 1935.  Since then there have been Government funded burials, the last being Una Catherine Lane who was buried 26^th June 1957 and these people will appear in this database.

Funerals funded by the Government today are followed by a cremation.

Information listed in the ‘notes’ column has been gathered from a variety of sources but has not been verified.

Listed below are some of the more common places of death.   

The New Town Charitable Institution/Infirmary

Was a government run invalid asylum which opened in 1874 and was used for the overflow of female convicts.  From 1879, when the Orphan School closed, the building continued to be used for female invalids, male invalids and lying in cases. In 1898 a staggering 52% of inmates were ex convicts.  Over the years the complex has expanded and developed and is now known as St John’s Park .  The State Government has now sold most buildings to private operators.

Brickfields

Located where the North Hobart Oval now stands, the site was the original Hobart Town Brickfields in 1844.  It then became home to convict women awaiting hire as domestic servants who were housed in buildings at the Domain end of the ground.  In later years the buildings were used as an immigration depot and finally an invalid depot which closed in 1882   The area later became a refuse dump.  When in use as an invalid depot it was for men only

Stowell Hospital

Located in Battery Point

39 Burnett Street

There was a small private hospital at this address where Nurse Cotton and Nurse Wooley both operated from.  Now privately owned by the Williams family and used as rooms by a medical practitioner.

Cascades Asylum

Prisoners held at Port Arthur were transferred here after the closure of Port Arthur in 1877

Because of the unsuitability of the site inmates were moved in 1890 to either the insane asylum at New Norfolk or the Hobart Gaol dependent on their condition.  

 New Norfolk Asylum

Sorell Creek

Jerusalem

Impression Bay  

St. Joseph’s Orphanage and Industrial School

Established in 1879 by Mother Xavier Williams who arrived in Hobart from Sydney aboard the “Louisa”.  With four other nuns from the Sisters of Charity Mother Xavier Williams had arrived in Sydney on the “Francis Speight” December 31^st 1838.

Was also known as Aikenhead House, named after Mary Aikenhead founder of the Sisters of Charity.

Any questions or comments  on this database should be directed to the compiler

Sue Guinan      sguinan@iprimus.com.au