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Carlyle Cemetery was established in 1865 on 6 acres of Crown Land. The cemetery is located on Distillery Road amongst the picturesque farming and vineyard landscape of Wahgunyah.
The cemetery features monumental sections (closed to new burials), a lawn section and two niche walls.
Click through the list below to learn more about the cemetery.
In 1984 the Rutherglen Lions Club put forward a proposal to establish a Lawn Cemetery with the first interment taking place on 26 August 1992. This portion of the cemetery is non-denominational and is utilised for the majority of interments. The Law section currently consists of 3 beams with a total of 344 interments with 30 spaces.
These sections of the cemetery are still in use but only by those people who have previously purchased plots.
The Rutherglen Lions Club in partnership with the Rutherglen Council erected a columbarium wall and this was first used in March 1981. This wall is still in use but only by those who have previously reserved a niche.
In late 2013 Indigo Shire Council, with the support of the Rutherglen Cemetery Foundation, erected a second niche wall. There are currently 21 interments and reserved niches in this wall, with another 59 spaces.
This section of the cemetery is closed to further burials. There are only six recorded Jewish burials at Carlyle Cemetery.
There were two burning towers erected in 1897 of which one original remains. In the 1970s, the other was re-erected by the Rutherglen Lions Club. Forty known Chinese are buried alongside these towers from 1881 to 1928. The existing memorial stones are footstones, not headstones.
In 2019 a monument to the Chinese people buried in the cemetery was donated and installed by the Victorian Chinese Memorial Foundation. This memorial displays the names of all known Chinese buried.
Built in 1903 by George Ashton the rotunda is of octagonal shape with a diameter of 20 feet and was first refurbished under the supervision of the Rutherglen Lions Club in the mid-2000s. The Rotunda was repainted at the time of the installation of the Victory Cross unveiling on Remembrance Day 2018 with grant funding acquired by the Indigo Shire Council.
Erected in 2018 for the 100-year anniversary of Armistice by the Returned Serviceman League Rutherglen Sub Branch.
Donated by the Cemeteries and Crematoria Association of Victoria Crematoria to commemorate the Centenary of Gallipoli and the First World War, a Lone Pine Tree was gifted along with a small bronze plaque to the Carlyle Cemetery in 2015 and planted in October 2018.
Historic records at Carlyle Cemetery can be inconsistent or incomplete. Often multiple sources have to be reviewed to determine accurate records. For this reason, we do not make burial records available online.
If you are interested in accessing burial records, please contact info@indigoshire.vic.gov.au or call 1300 365 003.
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