The Pioneer Cemetery, Busselton

No record of burials at the Busselton town cemetery were kept until shortly prior to the arrival of the Rev. Milward in March 1916. Nor were any records kept of the locations of the various gravesites. In consequence of this and as many sites were unmarked or had been marked with wooden crosses, etc. which decayed over time, on one occasion the grave-digger complained at having to dig five holes before he found a vacant space for a new burial. The index is an amalgamation of: a) Transcriptions compiled in 1982 by K.F. Stewart from legible headstones in the cemetery cross-checked against the earlier (1929) St. Albertus’ transcript from the Battye Library, Perth, Western Australia. b) Transcriptions compiled independently in 1989 by Joyce Mort from headstones and additional resources, primarily Deaths Notices and Obituaries, etc. gleaned from local newspaper archives.