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West Terrace Cemetery

Index West Terrace Cemetery

The West Terrace Cemetery is South Australia's oldest cemetery, first appearing on Colonel William Light's 1837 plan of Adelaide. [1]

55 relations: Abraham Tobias Boas, Adelaide, Adelaide city centre, Adelaide Park Lands, Afghan (Australia), Anzac Highway, Adelaide, Arthur Blackburn, Augusta Zadow, Australian Labor Party, B. T. Finniss, Belair railway line, Bickford's Australia, Campbelltown, South Australia, Carl Linger, Catholic Church, Charles Beaumont Howard, Charles Chewings, Charles James Fox Campbell, Charles Kingston, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Denmark, Dominick Daly, E. J. Woods, Federation of Australia, Frederick Metters, Governor of South Australia, Indigenous Australians, J. Matthew Ennis, James Bonnin, Jørgen Jensen (soldier), John McPherson, John Morphett, Light's Vision, Metters Limited, Ngarrindjeri, Percy Grainger, Philip Levi, Phillip Davey, Poltpalingada Booboorowie, Premier of South Australia, Quakers, Rossi Boots, Roy Inwood, Seaford railway line, Sir Donald Bradman Drive, Adelaide, South Australia, Sunday Mail (Adelaide), Tamam Shud case, The Advertiser (Adelaide), The Song of Australia, ..., Thomas Gilbert (pioneer), Unionism in Ireland, Victoria Cross, West Terrace, Adelaide, William Light. Expand index (5 more) »

Abraham Tobias Boas

Abraham Tobias Boas (25 November 1842 – 20 February 1923) was a rabbi of a Hebrew congregation in Adelaide, South Australia.

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Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.

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Adelaide city centre

Adelaide city centre is the innermost locality of Greater Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia.

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Adelaide Park Lands

The Adelaide Park Lands are the figure-eight of land spanning both banks of the River Torrens between Hackney and Thebarton and separating the City of Adelaide from the surrounding suburbia of greater Metropolitan Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia.

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Afghan (Australia)

The "Afghans" or "Ghans" were camel caravanners who worked in Outback Australia from the 1860s to the 1930s.

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Anzac Highway, Adelaide

The Anzac Highway is an main arterial road heading southwest from the city of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, to the beachside suburb of Glenelg.

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Arthur Blackburn

Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Blackburn, (25 November 1892 – 24 November 1960) was a South Australian soldier, lawyer, politician, and an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Augusta Zadow

Christiane Susanne Augustine "Augusta" Zadow (née Hofmeyer; 27 August 1846 – 7 July 1896) was a German-Australian trade unionist.

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Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP, also Labor, was Labour before 1912) is a political party in Australia.

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B. T. Finniss

Boyle Travers Finniss (18 August 1807 – 24 December 1893) was the first Premier of South Australia, serving from 24 October 1856 to 20 August 1857.

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Belair railway line

The Belair railway line is a suburban rail commuter route in the city of Adelaide, South Australia, that runs from the Adelaide station to Belair in the Adelaide Hills via the Adelaide-Wolseley line.

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Bickford's Australia

Bickford's Australia is an Australian beverage manufacturer based in South Australia.

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Campbelltown, South Australia

Campbelltown is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.

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Carl Linger

Carl Linger (15 March 1810 – 16 February 1862) was a German Australian composer in South Australia who in 1859 wrote the melody for the patriotic "Song of Australia".

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Charles Beaumont Howard

Charles Beaumont Howard (1807 – 19 July 1843) was a colonial clergyman in South Australia.

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Charles Chewings

Charles Chewings (16 April 1859 – 9 June 1937) was an Australian geologist and anthropologist.

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Charles James Fox Campbell

Charles James Fox Campbell was a grazier and early settler of Adelaide, South Australia, whose name is commemorated in the Adelaide suburb of Campbelltown, South Australia and the municipality, the City of Campbelltown, South Australia.

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Charles Kingston

Charles Cameron Kingston, PC (22 October 1850 – 11 May 1908) was an Australian politician.

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Dominick Daly

Sir Dominick Daly (11 August 1798 – 19 February 1868) was the Governor of Prince Edward Island from 11 July 1854 to 25 May 1859 and later Governor of South Australia from 4 March 1862 until his death on 19 February 1868.

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E. J. Woods

Edward John Woods F.R.I.B.A. (1839 – 5 January 1916) was a prominent architect in the early days of South Australia.

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Federation of Australia

The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia.

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Frederick Metters

Frederick Metters (14 May 1858 – 25 September 1937) was an ironworker, founder of the South Australian company which became "Metters Ltd.", of South Australia, Western Australia and New South Wales, known for domestic and industrial cooking ovens and other cooking equipment, and for windpumps.

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Governor of South Australia

The Governor of South Australia is the representative in the Australian state of South Australia of Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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J. Matthew Ennis

John Matthew Ennis (5 August 1864 – 31 May 1921), invariably referred to as Matthew Ennis or J. Matthew Ennis, was an English pianist and organist who had a substantial academic career in Adelaide, South Australia.

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James Bonnin

James Bonnin (about 1782 – 8 January 1850) was an English property developer who built more than three hundred houses in the Brompton, Kensington, Knightsbridge and Chelsea areas of London.

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Jørgen Jensen (soldier)

Jørgen Christian Jensen, (15 January 1891 – 31 May 1922) was a Danish-born Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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John McPherson

John Abel McPherson (28 January 1860 – 13 December 1897) was the first leader of the South Australian United Labor Party from 1892 to 1897.

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John Morphett

Sir John Morphett (4 May 1809 – 7 November 1892) was a South Australian pioneer, landowner and politician.

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Light's Vision

The first surveyor-general of Adelaide, South Australia, Colonel William Light designed a layout and development programme for the city.

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Metters Limited

Metters was a brand of stoves and ovens made by Metters & Company, an Australian company established in Adelaide in 1891 by Frederick Metters (1858–1937), who patented and manufactured a number of kitchen appliances notably the 'top-fire' wood stoves.

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Ngarrindjeri

The term Ngarrindjeri means belonging to men, and refers to a "tribal constellation".

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Percy Grainger

George Percy Aldridge Grainger (8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist.

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Philip Levi

Philip Levi (1 February 1822 – 13 May 1898) was an early settler and pastoralist of South Australia.

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Phillip Davey

Phillip Davey, (10 October 1896 – 21 December 1953) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Poltpalingada Booboorowie

Poltpalingada Booboorowie (born – died 4 July 1901) was a Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal of the Thooree clan prominent among the community of Fringe dwellers in Adelaide, South Australia during the 1890s.

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Premier of South Australia

The Premier of South Australia is the head of government in the state of South Australia, Australia.

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Rossi Boots

Rossi Boots is an Australian work boot company.

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Roy Inwood

Reginald Roy Inwood, VC (14 July 1890 – 23 October 1971) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Seaford railway line

The Seaford railway line is a suburban commuter line in Adelaide, South Australia.

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Sir Donald Bradman Drive, Adelaide

Sir Donald Bradman Drive is a major arterial road that travels east–west through the western suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Sunday Mail (Adelaide)

The Sunday Mail (originally titled the Mail) is an Adelaide newspaper first published on 4 May 1912 by Clarence Moody.

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Tamam Shud case

The Tamam Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach, Glenelg, just south of Adelaide, South Australia.

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The Advertiser (Adelaide)

The Advertiser is a conservative, daily tabloid-format newspaper published in the city of Adelaide, South Australia.

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The Song of Australia

"The Song of Australia" was written by English-born poet Caroline Carleton in 1859 for a competition sponsored by the Gawler Institute.

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Thomas Gilbert (pioneer)

Thomas Gilbert (1789–1873), a pioneer in South Australia, was its first Colonial Storekeeper (a government official responsible for all government stores) and its first Postmaster.

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Unionism in Ireland

Unionism in Ireland is a political ideology that favours the continuation of some form of political union between the islands of Ireland and Great Britain.

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Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.

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West Terrace, Adelaide

West Terrace is a street in Adelaide, South Australia.

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William Light

Colonel William Light (27 April 1786 – 6 October 1839)David F. Elder, '', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, Melbourne University Press, 1967, pp 116-118.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Terrace_Cemetery

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