03. Braamfontein Cemetery - Johannesburg
contributed by: Maureen Schnittker
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Cemetery information:- The first cemetery in the city was on the corner of Bree and Harrison Streets, laid out in 1886 when gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand. This became overrun as the town grew briskly and land was acquired in Braamfontein for the Braamfontein Cemetery, which received its first burials in 1888. The bodies from the city cemetery were exhumed and removed to Braamfontein in the 1890s. (source: Jhb Parks department)
Album incomplete, we do not have photographs of all the headstones.
Photographs by Angela de Klerk, Ben Leach, Frik Venter, Kobus Snyman, Larry O'Donoghue, Joy Wellbeloved, Brian Britz, Derek Walker, Peter and Beverley Moss, Annel Meyer, Gwyneth Thomas, Maureen Schnittker, Elani Bothma, Carol Coney, Sarah Welham, Blanche Price, Matthew Bode, Tracey Walsh, William Martinson, Gail Wilson, Christopher Fitchet & the South East Witwatersrand Family History Society.
eGGSA captions by: Alex van Niekerk, Angela de Klerk, Tombi Peck, Annatjie Erasmus, Dal Good, Eleanor Garvie, James Anderson, Sandie Williams, Riana le Roux, Eileen de Jager, Marilyn Dyssel, Andries Holtzhausen, Lorraine Beechey, Rob Jones, Fern Swales, Annel Meyer, Carol Gainsford, Asiza Tait, Renza Brickhill, Johan Heyman, Carina Coetsee
The GGSA Cemetery DVD only has information on the location of the cemetery Cemetery ID: 805 Google Earth Project Information:- GPSID: 805 GPS: -26 11.698, 28 01.607
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