HAPPY VALLEY cemetery ONKAPARINGA - South Australia 1 - 100
the CITY of ONKAPARINGA is located on the southern fringe of Adelaide, South Australia.
It is named after the Onkaparinga River, whose name comes from Ngangkiparinga, a Kaurna word meaning "The Women's River"
ABORIGINAL HERITAGE
Kaurna Yerta (Kaurna country)
Bukkibukkiunangko Kaurna meyunna yaintya pangkarilla tikketti
(Since ancient times Kaurna people have occupied this country)
The Kaurna Aboriginal people were traditional owners of the land called Ngangkiparringa (city of Onkaparinga) for at least 40,000 years before the arrival of Europeans. For a map outlining their perception of the land, their relationship to it and some of the names they used, click here.
Linked to the land by spiritual and cultural bonds, their knowledge has been handed from generation to generation in stories and memories. The Dreaming contains many of these tales and describes the creation of the world by god-like, heroic beings. The Kaurna see themselves as steward of the environment?a world alive with social and spiritual meaning.
Before Europeans arrived, they moved through their land as the seasons and their tradition allowed. They traded in karko (ochre) and met together at significant places. Clothed in cured hides?often prepared at a site near Rekarung (the Aldinga Scrub)?they lived in wodli which were simple summer housings of branch and leaf and more substantial winter structures moulded of grass and earth. Their diet was rich and diverse, built from the flora and fauna surrounding them.
Revering their ancestors and having virtually no contact with the world beyond their own, the Kaurna people were forced to meet head-on the culture of the first Europeans who arrived on their land in the early 1800s.
The Suburbs of Onkaparinga are:
Aberfoyle Park
Aldinga
Aldinga Beach
Blewitt Springs
Chandlers Hill
Cherry Gardens
Christie Downs
Christies Beach
Clarendon
Coromandel East
Coromandel Valley
Darlington
Dorset Vale
Flagstaff Hill
Hackham
Hackham West
* Happy Valley
Huntfield Heights
Ironbank
Kangarilla
Lonsdale
Maslin Beach
McLaren Flat
McLaren Vale
Moana
Morphett Vale
Noarlunga Centre
Noarlunga Downs
O'Halloran Hill
O'Sullivan Beach
Old Noarlunga
Old Reynella
Onkaparinga Hill
Port Noarlunga
Port Noarlunga South
Port Willunga
Reynella
Reynella East
Seaford
Seaford Heights
Seaford Meadows
Seaford Rise
Sellicks Beach
Sellicks Hill
Tatachilla
The Range
Whites Valley
Willunga
Willunga South
Woodcroft
* HAPPY VALLEY is a semi-rural suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The HAPPY VALLEY.
Dr Robert MONTGOMERY donated the land for the first Wesleyan Chapel and burial ground to be built on the south-east corner of Old Clarendon Road and Douglas Hill Road (now Chandlers Hill Road).
Later in 1851, the site was used by the Congregational Church, but in 1865 the South Australian Company donated a half-acre across the road on the corner of Douglas Hill Road and Candy Road and a new chapel was built. The original half-acre continued to be used as a cemetery and constituted by deed on 12 September 1864.
In 1888 a royal commission proposed that a reservoir be built at Happy Valley, and the site that was selected was such that the little cemetery would be under the reservoir wall. The South Australian Company again helped and donated an acre of land behind the Congregational Church, and the Waterworks Board arranged and paid for the exhumation and reburial of 215 adults and children (many of whom were, unfortunately, unnamed) which was completed by 1892.
The first burial in the new Happy Valley Cemetery was that of Robert Smith, who arrived on 3 April 1839 on the ?Welcome?.
as at April 2011 there were 623 people buried in the
HAPPY VALLEY cemetery
- clicking the cemetery link will reveal more information for every person, like their burial location and photos where available
1. ADAMS, Alvina Amelia
2. ADAMS, William Edmond
3. ALCOCK
4. ALCOCK, Cyril Clifford
5. ALCOCK, Doris Dale
6. ALCOCK, Elizabeth
7. ALCOCK, Ephraim
8. ALCOCK, Ephraim Charles
9. ALCOCK, Florrie Rose
10. ALCOCK, Leslie Clifford
11. ALCOCK, Mary Elizabeth
12. ALCOCK, Roy Cameron
13. ALEXANDER, Emma
14. ALLEN, Valentine
15. ANDERSEN, Violet
16. ANDREWS, Harry
17. APPLETON, Charlotte
18. APPLETON, Elizabeth
19. APPLETON, Francis
20. APPLETON, Richard
21. ASPLIN, Emma Cooper
22. ASPLIN, Jacob
23. BAKER, Sally Ann
24. BARBER, Andrew
25. BARBER, Frederick
26. BARBER, George
27. BARTLETT, Hurtle Stanley
28. BARTON, Ellen
29. BATLEY, Elijah
30. BATTLEY, Hannah Priscilla
31. BAXTER, Agnes
32. BAXTER, Alexander
33. BAXTER, Emily Annie
34. BAXTER, Isobel June
35. BAXTER, Maureen Anges
36. BEARE, Sarah
37. BENNETT, Rosemary
38. BISHOP
39. BISHOP
40. BISHOP, Doris
41. BITMEAD, James
42. BLACK, David
43. BLAKENEY, Michael Derry
44. BONNER, Colin Flett
45. BONNEY, Margaret Eliza
46. BOOTH
47. BOOTH
48. BOOTH, Heather Jean
49. BOOTH, Ian Milton
50. BOUCHER, Ruby May
51. BOYCE, James
52. BOYCE, Sarah Ann
53. BOYLE, John James
54. BOYLE, Winifred Elsie
55. BRASSER, Matilda
56. BREEDON, John William
57. BROOKS, Clive Frederick
58. BROWN, Mr
59. BUCHANAN, Elizabeth Agnes
60. BUCHANAN, Francis Clelland
61. BUCHANAN, Francis Leslie
62. BUCHANAN, Jane
63. BUCHANAN, Leslie D
64. BUCHANAN, Mary Alice
65. BUCHANAN, Robert
66. BUCHANAN, Thomas
67. BUCKLEY, Edith Helen
68. CAIN, Jane
69. CAIN, Martin
70. CAIN, Mary Elizabeth
71. CAIN, Mr
72. CAIN, Thomas James
73. CAMPBELL, Constance Marguerite
74. CAMPBELL, Kathleen Eveline
75. CARMAN, Samuel
76. CARTER, Irving Horwood
77. CHAMBERLAIN
78. CHANDLER, Caroline Sarah
79. CHANDLER, Charles
80. CHANDLER, Elizabeth
81. CHANDLER, Hannah
82. CHANDLER, Harriet
83. CHANDLER, John Frederick
84. CHANDLER, William
85. CHASE, William
86. CLARK
87. CLARK, Charles
88. CLARK, Eliza
89. CLARK, John
90. CLARK, John Mervyn
91. CLARKE, Alice Mary Hawson
92. COATES, Gerda Elizabeth
93. COLEMAN
94. COLEMAN, Bridget
95. COLEMAN, Harry Manly
96. COLEMAN, Henry James
97. COLEMAN, William Frederick
98. COMPASSE, Paul Zackaria
99. CONNELL, Joan Margaret
100. COUGHLAN, Francis William
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363 - 623 MURRAY to YOUNG
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