Goulburn Jewish Cemetery in Goulburn, New South Wales

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Goulburn, Goulburn Mulwaree Council, New South Wales 2580 Australia

Coordinates: -34.75520, 149.74336
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The first mention of the Jewish Cemetery is made in a London based Jewish Newsletter "The Voice of Jacob" in 1844 where it is stated that Messrs. Benjamin and Moses had agreed to dedicate an acre of ground for a Jewish Cemetery. Most of the surrounding twenty acre blocks of farmland were owned by the Jewish community, who from the 1840's to the 1870's were numerous and important.

Goulburn had the third largest Jewish community in New South Wales but over time the Jewish population has sharply declined to a point that there are no more burials taking place within the cemetery. The first burials were in November 1844, reported in the Sydney Morning Herald 28th November 1844; where two sisters, Sarah and Hannah Moses, drowned when their father attempted to cross the river at Yass. In February 1845 the combined store and inn of Issac Davis was held up by a number of armed and masked men, Mr Davis was shot dead by one of the gang; he is buried at the Jewish Cemetery. Mrs Rebecca Moses, the wife of John Moses, who "departed this life on January 8th 1851", was the first Jewish woman who married in Australia. The remains of the caretaker's cottage that was built in 1848 can still be seen. As of October 2005, there were remained 87 marked graves and another 27 names on unmarked graves.

The Jewish Cemetery has been placed on the National Trust of Australia (New South Wales) register.