The naming of a Cemetery
For my first blog after a lengthy absence due to travel and health commitments I have chosen not to highlight a "forgotten" person but to go into detail about the naming of The Necropolis and its close ties to a London Necropolis in Southern England. In my blog's information page, there are some details about what Rookwood Cemetery Discoveries is all about. It gives a potted history of the Cemetery and how it came about as well as how it has evolved over many years. Rookwood Cemetery Gates (west entrance) built 1993 - Author's collection What I did not discuss was the naming of Cemetery and its environs and there have been a few! WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME "ROOKWOOD" When it was discovered that the Devonshire Street Cemetery (which was resumed due to the construction of Central Train Station in 1900) was not able to house the estimated amount of the City's dead after the influx of people after gold was discovered in 1851, a new area was requi...