Jewish Cemetery Harrington Street, Hobart

1811 –1872 the Jews Burial Ground Burials from the beginning of settlement were in St David's Burial ground, now St David's Park, at the corner of Harrington and Davey Streets Hobart, and included all denominations. This area had been chosen by Lieutenant-Governor Collins and the Reverend Robert Knopwood on 27th April 1804

The town had been formally laid out from a disorganized straggle of streets and structures to the present central grid by Governor Macquarie's surveyor, James Meehan, in a visit of December 1811. This formed the streets and boundaries and gave locations for civic buildings, burial grounds, street widths and minimum setbacks for buildings.

The earliest use known by Europeans of the area occupied by Windsor Court is as ‘the Jews Burial ground' in 1828. Remains of early Jewish inhabitants interred from as early as 1811 were transferred from St David's to the new burial ground in 1828, however these are not recorded in the Hobart Town Jewish Synagogue Burial Register.

An undated cemetery plan circa 1950 has been located, showing the location of 20 headstones, of which only 12 were able to be read. The Hobart Town Courier recorded the deaths of Jewish citizens being interred at the Jews Burial Ground in Harrington street as late as 1871, well after the date of the Register. However, 57 human remains were unearthed in the exhumation process in 2002. The Hobart Synagogue has identified the names of 51 people that were buried at the burial ground, though remains of each person were not identified in the exhumation process. The remaining six human remains exhumed add up to the real number of burials, though who they all are is at present unknown. Who were some of those that were buried here and why was the burial ground closed?

Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFagin