Scotch Cemetery
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Scotch Cemetery

Also known as Old Scotch Cemetery , Presbyterian Scotch Cemetery

Newstead, Launceston City, Tasmania, Australia

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    Newstead, Launceston City, Tasmania 7250 Australia
    Coordinates: -41.44629, 147.15088
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As it was traditionally known the Old Scotch Cemetery was on the site of St Andrew's Gardens in High Street, Launceston.

The Scots church applied for a Presbyterian burial ground in 1833, the first burial 1836, the last, abt 1925 with over a thousand burials during the years that the cemetery operated.

It was closed in 1905 when Carr Villa opened, although family vault burials continued for abt another 20 years.

In 1935 St Andrew's Presbyterian Church asked that the cemetery go to the Crown, but it wasn't until July 1947, that it was proclaimed a public reserve.

Some headstones were removed to Carr Villa Presbyterian section from 1951. while the removal of the remaining 178 headstones for aesthetic reasons, brought some controversy, in particular, over those of Lieut. William Gunn and his brother Ronald Campbell Gunn, Botanist, which are now at Carr Villa Sect.D2.]]



As it was traditionally known the Old Scotch Cemetery was on the site of St Andrew's Gardens in High Street, Launceston.

The Scots church applied for a Presbyterian burial ground in 1833, the first burial 1836, the last, abt 1925 with over a thousand burials during the years that the cemetery operated.

It was closed in 1905 when Carr Villa opened, although family vault burials continued for abt another 20 years.

In 1935 St Andrew's Presbyterian Church asked that the cemetery go to the Crown, but it wasn't until July 1947, that it was proclaimed a public reserve.

Some headstones were removed to Carr Villa Presbyterian section from 1951. while the removal of the remaining 178 headstones for aesthetic reasons, brought some controversy, in particular, over those of Lieut. William Gunn and his brother Ronald Campbell Gunn, Botanist, which are now at Carr Villa Sect.D2.]]



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