Charles St General Cemetery, Launceston

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Opened 1841
Photo as a cemetery
Charles St gate
Closed 1925

Location (as Saint Ockerby Grounds)

Record of location of the graves (Not very useful)
Epitaphs and tombstone inscriptions removed from Charles Street cemetery (Hand written transcriptions)
Cemetery register (list of names, organised by first letter of surname and then date)
Treasurer’s register (Organised by date, gives details of payments made)
(If the links above don’t work, try this link or search the site for NG3089.)

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7 thoughts on “Charles St General Cemetery, Launceston

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    Tony Slattery

    November 22, 2016 at 10:33am

    It breaks my heart as to what you have done to your most historic cemeteries. This creation of parks and playing grounds on the site of some of your most historic cemeteries in the colony is nothing short of bastardisation and government vandalism. It is something the powers that be should be, and should forever remain, eternally ashamed of.

    My family have come down to Tasmania from Sydney to stand at the graves of our forbears, Luttrell pioneers who arrived in Tasmania in 1816. And not a single one of our direct ancestors graves now exist to be visited and stood beside. Great grandparents, great great grandparents and great great great grandparents graves in Hobart and Launceston have all been removed and not a single memorial headstone now exists as the cemeteries have been turned into parks and playing fields.

    Dr. Luttrell was the Colonial Surgeon here in1816. His children were ship builders and whaling ship captains and publicans and are mentioned extensively in archival and newspaper records. But you have destroyed their monuments, and their graves, albeit removing and relocating a few monuments, but none of ours, and you have turned their final peaceful resting places into playgrounds that have people walking all over their graves. This leaves their descendants totally disenfranchised and completely removed from the remotest connection to their relatives.

    Now there is nowhere one can stand beside a grave and feel an emotional attachment to those pioneer relatives that have gone before. And all this in the name of progress. Shameful!

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      Lisa McKay

      December 30, 2018 at 8:45am

      I am too devastated. I have just begun an exciting journey into my heritage with Ancestry.com and have found two relatives that were buried here. How do I find out about more if I can’t even visit a head stone. Very sad that most record keeping was not the best, but I have no where else to turn to find out about the rich Tasmanian history of my past fore bearers.

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        pat bull

        January 7, 2020 at 3:50am

        There is a Luttrell plot at Geelong West Cemetery. Its in rather bad shape. Descendants of Hobart Bagdad /Blackbrush Luttrells.

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    Lisa McKay

    December 30, 2018 at 8:49am

    I am too devastated. I have just begun an exciting journey into my heritage with Ancestry.com and have found two relatives that were buried here. How do I find out about more if I can’t even visit a head stone. Very sad that most record keeping was not the best, but I have no where else to turn to find out about the rich Tasmanian history of my past fore bearers.

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    Arlene

    December 29, 2020 at 12:54am

    Sad thing in destroying cemeteries. I have just made myself owner on so many of my ancestors graves .. to hopefully stop this happening to them. AND ensuring all WW1 graves have a war graves plaque.

    Do you have a refreshed link to the photo of the gate .. and the Treasurer’s register? Links are gone. Cheers 🙂

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    Erin Miller

    December 21, 2021 at 10:14am

    I have come to Tasmania for a holiday with my dad, and when we went for a walk he told me the sad truth about the coverage of the grave yards. Even though I know no one who was berried there, it is still sad to find that. Family, grandparents, sisters, brothers and even lovers were dug up for a dumb highway. People were laid there to be in peace, not to be dug up.

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