Volume 1 - Cemeteries Conservation Management Plan

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Wyee Cemetery established in 1892 as the cemetery for the village and the surrounding district maintains this role into present day. The cemetery illustrates the village’s initial reliance on the timber industry and railway to its to its current role as a semi-rural residential area. It demonstrates the pattern of development of a rural general cemetery.

The layout of the cemetery and the style of headstones demonstrates the evolution of burial practices over the twentieth century. The cemetery with its modest headstones and uniformity in style reflect little social division in what has remained a largely working-class community.

Table 5 Heritage significance assessment – cemetery overview Criteria (a)

(b)

(d)

(e)

(f)

(g) Integrity / intactness

Represent-

Rarity

Research

Social

Aesthetic/ Technical

Associative

Historical

Cemetery

(c)

Belmont Cemetery

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Catherine Hill Bay Cemetery

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Johnston (Barnsley) Family Cemetery

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Morisset Cemetery

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Martinsville Pioneer Cemetery

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Toronto Cemetery

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

West Wallsend Cemetery

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Whitebridge Cemetery

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Wyee Cemetery

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Draft Lake Macquarie City Council Cemeteries – Conservation Management Plan. Volume 1. 2021

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