St Judes Cemetery, Brighton, South Australia

Cemetery Details

Location Brighton Road , Brighton, Holdfast Bay - South Australia, Australia
Co‑ordinates S35.016896, E138.523078
Description

Located at the rear of the St Jude’s Anglican Church at 444 Brighton Road, Brighton, South Australia.

St Judes Cemetery is a State Heritage listed operating cemetery established in 1854 for the St Jude's Church of England.

At the inland end of Jetty Road, stands the contemporary version of old St Jude’s Anglican Church. The original chapel at the rear never gained the ten storey church spire intended when it was built in the 1850s, but it makes up for it in tall stories…only these are true. Many have the name William Voules Brown written all over them.  A footman in old England and a success in early Adelaide, he swung a land deal that helped St Jude’s happen. It included a right of way for all to his cemetery at the back, and so he was curator, grave digger and even host to the wake.   Parts of today’s Brighton Metro Hotel nearby hark back to the “Thatched House Tavern”, and he owned it.   Mr Brown also gave St Jude’s its church bell…on the condition that he could toll it at all the funerals.  Appropriately, he is buried in the cemetery that legally stayed in the family until special legislation resolved the impasse in 1980.

Predictably, there are many more stories in St Jude’s Cemetery.  Four out of the first five burials were infants in the cruel 1850s.

The great geologist and Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson’s simple grave slab is here.

Along with a huge pre-Federation figure, the novelist-social reformer-political campaigner, Catherine Helen Spence. Known as the “Grand Old Lady of Australia”, she is depicted on the five dollar note.

The cemetery is now looked after by the City of Holdfast Bay.  Ph:  08 8229-9938.

Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan.   8/3/2015.  Lest we forget.

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from cemetery

BEST, Stanley Arthur

Service number 1939
Second Corporal
5th Divisional Ammunition Column
AIF WW1
Born 22 Aug 1897

SMEATON, Bronte

Service number OFFICER
Major
Australian Army Medical Corps WW1
AIF WW1
Born 6 Oct 1873

HALE, Charles Frederick

Service number S34708
Warrant Officer Class 2
Born 14 Dec 1895

NICKELS, Archibald Galbraith

Service number 816
Corporal
Born 12 Jun 1873

LILLIE, Harold Thomas

Service number 1863
Sapper
Born 27 Sep 1891

HUTCHINSON, Herbert Thomas Leavold

Service number 2171
Sergeant
Born 11 Jul 1893

SANDERS, Alexander Moorna

Service number 407933
Flight Lieutenant
Born 23 Jan 1911

MCCLOUD, Clarence Norman

Service number 5613
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Jul 1896