Commemoration and Improvement: Parramatta St John’s Cemetery, New South Wales in its Context 1788 – c. 1840

Mytum, HC ORCID: 0000-0002-0577-2064 (2020) Commemoration and Improvement: Parramatta St John’s Cemetery, New South Wales in its Context 1788 – c. 1840 The Antiquaries Journal, 100. pp. 374-407. ISSN 0003-5815, 1758-5309

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Abstract

Parramatta was the second British settlement established in mainland Australia, and for a time was the largest. Its burial ground and monuments, the oldest surviving British cemetery in mainland Australia, provides important evidence for the aspirations, attitudes and practices within this fledgling community. It reveals the role of improvement concepts and practices in popular as well as governmental culture, representing an experiment in secular control over burial decades before the urban non-denominational cemetery first appears in England. The primary chronological focus here is from the foundation of settlement in 1788 to c 1840, by which time free settlers as well as emancipists had transformed Parramatta from a convict settlement into a colonial town.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Colonial studies, Memorials, Burials, Funerary practices, Convicts, Improvement culture
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	01 Jul 2020 10:14
Last Modified:	16 Jun 2026 19:56
DOI:	10.1017/S0003581520000281
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3092377
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