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

* CHERRY GARDENS is a semi-rural suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The CHERRY GARDENS is located in the rural area of the City of Onkaparinga.
The cemetery is small in size and is the resting place of many of the area?s early pioneer families.

Prior to 1881, all burials in the Cherry Gardens area were at the Cherry Gardens Wesleyan Chapel grounds on Hicks Hill Road where many of the first residents were interred. In January 1882, the trustees of the Church ?declared that the churchyard, on account of limited grounds at their disposal and as a public cemetery had opened, had passed a resolution closing their cemetery?.

By September 1881, the District Council of Clarendon had surveyed and dedicated 9 hectares of land to a cemetery. The first burial, of Sarah MacKERETH of Scott Creek, took place on 3 March 1882. The first curator was Mr Charles THREADGOLD, appointed on 21 March 1881.


as at April 2011 there were 259 people buried in the
CHERRY GARDENS cemetery

- clicking the cemetery link will reveal more information for every person, like their burial location and photos where available

1. AHRENS, Cecil Claude
2. AHRENS, Elizabeth Jane
3. AHRENS, William

4. ALLAN, Emma Elizabeth

5. ASHBEE, Patricia Daphne

6. ASHENDEN, Arthur Oliver
7. ASHENDEN, Beryl Ida
8 ASHENDEN, Ethel M
9. ASHENDEN, Eva Jane
10. ASHENDEN, Frederick Arthur

11. BALAGENGADARAN, Roger Ponar

12. BALL, E

13. BAULDERSTONE, Leslie Charles

14. BISHOP, Catherine
15. BISHOP, William

16. BONE, Esme Elizabeth

17. BOOTHEY, Hanmar Olive
18. BOOTHEY, Sarah
19. BOOTHEY, Thomas
20. BOOTHEY, William
21. BOOTHEY, William George Gambier

22. BOTTOMLEY, Elizabeth Fanny
23. BOTTOMLEY, Francis Monaghan

24. BREALEY, Dora
25. BREALEY, Elenor Ann
26. BREALEY, John B
27. BREALEY, Martha
28. BREALEY, Sidney

29. BRIGGS, N L R

30. BROADBENT, A S
31. BROADBENT, El
32. BROADBENT, Elijah
33. BROADBENT, Mary
34. BROADBENT, R C

35. BROOKS, Maria

36. BROWN, Ann Elizabeth
37. BROWN, Dahlia Gladys
38. BROWN, Rodney Cyril

39. BRUMBY, A E
40. BRUMBY, Edgar
41. BRUMBY, Elizabeth
42. BRUMBY, Elizabeth Ann
43. BRUMBY, Ethel May
44. BRUMBY, Fred
45. BRUMBY, Frederick Keith
46. BRUMBY, George
47. BRUMBY, Harry E
48. BRUMBY, Henry
49. BRUMBY, John
50. BRUMBY, Lucy Constance
51. BRUMBY, Richard
52. BRUMBY, Ronald E
53. BRUMBY, Thomas
54. BRUMBY, William
55. BUNGEY, Enid Fenella Hope

56. CLIFT, Susan Rebecca

57. COATS, Alexander Maurice
58. COATS, Annie Laurel
59. COATS, Bonny Rita
60. COATS, Lottie
61. COATS, Maurice Ray

62. COLMER, Elizabeth

63. COOPER, Verena

64. COTTERELL, Mary Ann

65. DARWIN, Annie N
66. DARWIN, Arthur Fred

67. DAVEY, Arthur William
68. DAVEY, William Arthur

69. de KONING, Anny Maria

70. DIETRICH, J H

71. DONNELL, Fanny
72. DONNELL, John

73. EDWARDS, Graham James
74. EDWARDS, Hannah

75. EFFORD, John
76. EFFORD, Johnathon Brian
77. EFFORD, Phyllis Rose

78. FAULKNER, Frederick Stanley

79. GILBERTSON, Gwenllian Elizabeth

80. GLASSON, Iris Marguerite
81. GLASSON, William Henry

82. GRAETZ, Vernon Morgan

83. HAAS, Erika Inge

84. HALES, Colin Desmond
85. HALES, Raymond Trevor

86. HANDS, Cynthia Claire

87. HANS, Frederick Arthur

88. HARDEN, Walter

89. HENWOOD, Harry

90. HILL, Arthur Albany
91. HILL, Ruby
92. HILL, Susan
93. HILL, W M E

94. HOBBS, David Thomas
95. HOBBS, Joseph
96. HOBBS, Walter C

97. HUDSON, Jillian Anne

98. JACOBS, Annie
99. JACOBS, Clifford
100. JACOBS, Edith
101. JACOBS, Emily
102. JACOBS, Faye
103. JACOBS, Henry
104. JACOBS, Henry John
105. JACOBS, John Reece
106. JACOBS, Kenneth
107. JACOBS, Maria
108. JACOBS, Marjorie
109. JACOBS, Martha Lillian
110. JACOBS, Max
111. JACOBS, Thomas

112. JANZEN, F

113. JOHNSON, Elizabeth Kerr

114. JONES, Elva Vera
115. JONES, Lester Merlin

116. LANGLEY, Faith
117. LANGLEY, H W J
118. LANGLEY, Wanda

119. LEDGARD, V M

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