DARDANUP is a small town in the South West region of Western Australia. The town is located in the fertile Ferguson valley and is close to the Ferguson River.

The area was first settled in 1852 by Thomas LITTLE who named his property Dardanup Park. The word Dardanup is believed to be a variation of the Indigenous Australian word Dudingup the meaning of which is unknown.

Little later gave land to the Catholic Church and a community was soon established in the locale. The government acquired land in the area in the 1920s and the townsite was gazetted in 1923


Dardanup Cemetery PHOTOS


the DARDANUP Pioneer Catholic Cemetery
- that link has headstone photos & more info of the following names:

BRENNAN Edward John 29/7/1916
- Army 1020 died WW1 France parents John & Catherine

BRENNAN James Vincent 11/8/1918
- Army 3024 died WW1 France
- parents John & Catherine

BRENNAN John 10/1/1918 73

BRENNAN Patience 29/5/1863 12

BUSHER Christina

BUSHER Ellen 27/08/1897

BUSHER Ellen B 26/7/1971 80
- parents Mary & Thomas

BUSHER Francis 3/7/1925

BUSHER James 8/11/1920

BUSHER James 26/01/1896

BUSHER Mary 20/4/1913 59

BUSHER Mary Unreadable

BUSHER Mary Ann 8/11/1920

BUSHER Richard 28/1/1913

BUSHER Thomas 24/9/1919

BUSHER Thomas Arthur 74

BYRNE Peter 8/7/1955
- brother of Mary McDonald,Lily Horgan & Sister M Laurence

CLEARY Alice 4/6/1913 73

CLEARY James 1/12/1902
- Born Ireland

CLEARY Mary Ann 15/8/1937 75?

COONAN Annie 26/10/1930 74

COONAN Joseph Thomas 4/10/1917 34
- Army 5830,WW1 died France
- parents Michael & Ellen

COONAN Michael 24/5/1895 54

COONAN Teresa 26/7/1907 17
- parents Annie & Thomas

COONAN Thomas 21/1/1931 79

COONAN William Michael 29/8/1915 28
- Army 673,WW1 died Gallipoli
- parents Michael & Ellen

CRAIGIE Felicien Phillip 13/12/1946 72
- buried with William & Mary J. O'Neill

DILLON Arthur 4/3/1914 44

DILLON Laura Mary 13/8/1957 81

DOOLAN Bessie

DOOLAN Edward

DOOLAN Keriah died 1886

DOOLAN Mary

DOOLAN William

FEE Kenneth Norman 10/2/1923 27/1/1916
- parents Robert & Olive

FEE Robert Edward 31/7/1872 6/7/1944

FLYNN Harry 13/7/1915 86

FLYNN Mary 25/4/? 54

FOSTER Eileen mary 30/6/1922 23

GARVEY Alice 20/10/1966 82

GARVEY Delores Mary 27/8/1954 74

GARVEY Gerard Stephen 1/11/1940 18

GARVEY Joseph ??/06/1877

GARVEY Mary 11/11/1909 64 nee HENNESSY

GARVEY Mary 27/7/1924 74
- buried with parents William & Mary & brother Timothy

GARVEY Mary 03/02/1879 6m

GARVEY Mary 5/11/1872 60

GARVEY Patrick 23/11/1919 85
- arrived on Clara 03/09/1853 from Hollyford co. Tipperary

GARVEY Timothy 24/2/1916 72
- buried with parents William & Mary & sister Mary

GARVEY William 28/9/1950 69

GARVEY William ??/06/1877

GARVEY William 12/8/1856 47

GIUMELLI Domenica 19/7/1917 30
- husband Domenico

GIUMELLI Domenico 5/10/1965 88
- father of Jim & Betty

HARRIS Bridget 15/4/1914 70?

HARRIS Catherine Mary 8/9/1969 87

HARRIS George 27/11/1899 27

HARRIS John 26/12/1940 75
- Catherine buried with granddaughter Patricia Murphy

HARRIS Mary Ann 31/3/1932 75

HARRIS May 12/2/? ?
- parents Thomas & Bridget

HARRIS Thomas 24/12/? 65

HARRIS Thomas William 10/9/1927 64

LITTLE Thomas b 1800 d 1877
- To Commomorate the unmarked grave of Thomas Little the Catholic Parish of Dardanup

MAGUIRE Ann 13/7/1880?
- mother of James & John

MAGUIRE Catherine 12/3/1875?

MAGUIRE Elizabeth Carbury 24/11/1886 58

MAGUIRE James 13/1/1915 81

MAGUIRE James 27/1/1942 42
- parents Kate & Mick
- buried with Valerie Stracman

MAGUIRE James 28/1/1854 65
- father of James & John

MAGUIRE John d 1897?

MAGUIRE Michael 6/12/1911 39

MAGUIRE Thomas Carbury 17/3/1897 38

McSWEENEY Francis Gerard 31/8/1904 15

MORELLINI Carmel Margaret 27/4/1950 2
- parents Nat & Mary

MURPHY Patricia 5/10/1946 9m
- buried with grandfather John Harris

O'NEILL Mary Jane 20/9/1946 87

O'NEILL William 27/1/1931 76
- buried with Felicien P Craigie

PANIZZA Bernard 24/3/1891 - 20/7/1947

PANIZZA Elizabeth Mary 28/11/1956 65

PEDROLINI Acostino 16/9/1945 77

PEDROLINI Katie
- parents Teresa & Acostino

PEDROLINI Teresa 22/4/1914 35

PROUT Catherine 20/11/1952 78

PROUT Ernest James 6/10/1915 6

PROUT William Henry 8/4/1916 52

RADLEY C 10/4/1911 43/48? died Dardanup

RODGERS Elizabeth Margaret 6/8/1901 31

SHAW Alice 14/4/1946 76

SLATTERY Barney
- buried with bro Pat & Daniel

SLATTERY Daniel b 1865 - d 1955

SLATTERY Edward 22/7/1885

SLATTERY James

SLATTERY Pat

SLATTERY Patrick 20/8/1918? 84

SLATTERY Rose 4/?/1905

SMITH Philip ?/3/1931 82

SMITH Philip 17/9/1917 32
- Army 5434 WW1 died Frances

STRACHAN Barry 7/11/1958 7

STRACMAN Valerie 8/10/1956 9

VALLI Bert 14/5/1926 85

VALLI Maria 22/4/1918

YOONBUSCH Jane 10/1/1957 70

YOONBUSCH Louis 23/4/1929 50