Lower Portland General Cemetery

Lower Portland General Cemetery is located at 896 West Portland Road, Lower Portland, New South Wales. The cemetery commenced in about 1899 and is divided up into sections by religious denomination. There are approximately 200 burials on the site with a number of unmarked graves. A list of the existing names transcribed from the monuments may be found on Hawkesbury-on-the-net website

The entrance gates to Lower Portland General Cemetery, West Portland Road, Lower Portland, NSW. The gates were erected to the memory of John and Charlotte Smith by their children and grandchildren in 1928. Cathy McHardy March 2019

This bush cemetery is still in use today and is administered by Hawkesbury City Council. It is located far above the river out of the reach of flooding which has damaged many of the other riverbank cemeteries. Members of river families such as Leet, Jones, Herps, Everingham, Blundell and Gosper are buried here. The oldest burials are located in the Anglican and Methodist sections.

In the Methodist section, Charlotte Smith died July 1899 67 years (Row 2 Plot 5) and Thomas Everingham who died on the 16 May 1916 aged 89 years is located in Row 2 Plot 2.

In another section, Katherine Heather Varkass was a visitor from New Zealand who drowned in the Colo River in 1949 she was only 16.

Location of Lower Portland General Cemetery

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