http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/save-the-lewisham-graves-at-rookwood-cemetery.html Online petition signatures en-us Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:16 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24376583?utm_medium=rss I first visited my relatives in 1993 and was shocked to see this article.
I have at least 8 direct relations buried in this section of which 4 - my great great grand parents were born in County Antrim and County Clare Ireland.
I recall talking with my grandfather many years ago (about 50 years after their remains were removed and I recall him talking about the trauma for the families and there is no doubt the bodies were certainty removed to Rookwood.
These people have been moved once and should never be moved again.
I am 66 years old and i would have no hesitation standing in front of anyone trying to remove my relatives.

]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2023 06:07:37 UTC 24376583 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24344250?utm_medium=rss Fri, 16 Sep 2022 08:34:18 UTC 24344250 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24201930?utm_medium=rss Mon, 22 Nov 2021 03:06:57 UTC 24201930 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24128107?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Jun 2021 07:28:20 UTC 24128107 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24127063?utm_medium=rss I am very disappointed in what is occuring. I can't believe they would do this and I don't stand for it. I have many family buried there and the rookwood cemetery is well looked after. With a cafe, flower shop, buses, website to search for deceased people and amazing history. I strongly think it is wrong and it is outrageous. It must not happen and I think it should be a place for people to come and see their loved ones.

]]> Fri, 4 Jun 2021 09:32:25 UTC 24127063 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24077631?utm_medium=rss Wed, 7 Apr 2021 11:54:40 UTC 24077631 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24050624?utm_medium=rss I have family who were buried there. Please leave their stones in peace.

]]> Tue, 2 Mar 2021 06:29:51 UTC 24050624 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23993033?utm_medium=rss These graves have significant historical meaning for the area, the state, and the families who have relatives interred there.

]]> Sat, 9 Jan 2021 08:55:38 UTC 23993033 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23991503?utm_medium=rss My great grandmother Mary McLaughlin née Braddick was removed from the graveyard in St Thomas Catholic Church and relocated to Rookwood in the Lewisham Petersham Plot 4. After all of these years I found this information and was hoping to see that area refurbished and our family able to erect an identification. As a part of early Catholic history and Benedictine influence these plots deserve a history board. So much has been done by the Catholic Church in other parts of Rookwood. I was under the impression that this area was to be cleaned up and honoured as fitting. Please keep me informed of developments in this part of the cemetery.
Kay McPadden
123 Warren Street
Fortitude Valley Qld 4006
0409569916

]]> Thu, 7 Jan 2021 01:09:14 UTC 23991503 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23752030?utm_medium=rss Have just discovered this history and that two of my relatives were buried in lewisham cemetery and moved to Rookwood. I’d like to preserve their resting place. It’s disgusting that graves are even touched.

]]> Sun, 19 Jul 2020 01:16:13 UTC 23752030 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23407277?utm_medium=rss Let them RIP please. We have been to visit our Curran familythere today. We don't want them moved again.

]]> Wed, 1 Jan 2020 02:37:28 UTC 23407277 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23344869?utm_medium=rss Leave em alone

]]> Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:30:11 UTC 23344869 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23212718?utm_medium=rss My great great great great grandmother was removed to this location. It would be a shame to see the headstone removed as it is an important part of Sydney's Catholic History.

]]> Sun, 18 Aug 2019 01:41:11 UTC 23212718 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23212707?utm_medium=rss Sorry they are inconvenient but headstones are history and heritage. Please preserve them.

]]> Sun, 18 Aug 2019 01:26:53 UTC 23212707 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23207445?utm_medium=rss Dear Rebecca
I have just read your petition and am very disturbed by the idea that our families may be moved again
I have at least nine family members in that section, 4 great great grandparents and 5 great grand uncles and aunties and I can assure you that I will make sure that they will not be moved again!
Please get in touch with me and I will begin the process
Kind regards Rob

]]> Mon, 12 Aug 2019 04:18:53 UTC 23207445 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/22198785?utm_medium=rss Mon, 14 May 2018 09:20:46 UTC 22198785 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21972656?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 Jan 2018 02:50:01 UTC 21972656 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21951640?utm_medium=rss Thu, 21 Dec 2017 10:14:12 UTC 21951640 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21744068?utm_medium=rss Historic graves should NOT be disturbed again. The proposed removal of these stones is for profit

]]> Sun, 29 Oct 2017 02:16:40 UTC 21744068 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21624358?utm_medium=rss Fri, 1 Sep 2017 02:31:16 UTC 21624358 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21624148?utm_medium=rss Fri, 1 Sep 2017 11:59:02 UTC 21624148 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21459635?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Jun 2017 01:13:10 UTC 21459635 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21457269?utm_medium=rss Sun, 25 Jun 2017 05:12:23 UTC 21457269 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21433702?utm_medium=rss My Great-great grandparents, John William Regan and Ellen (nee Dawes) Regan, 1st generation Australians, were buried at 'Petersham' Catholic Cemetery in Nov 1873 and Sep 6 1874 respect.. "Sacred to the Memory of should mean just that!

]]> Fri, 16 Jun 2017 06:30:56 UTC 21433702 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21369832?utm_medium=rss Wed, 31 May 2017 01:33:51 UTC 21369832 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21364773?utm_medium=rss Mon, 29 May 2017 01:32:03 UTC 21364773 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21353019?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 May 2017 01:18:14 UTC 21353019 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21343693?utm_medium=rss Leave the Headstones Where they are!!

]]> Sat, 20 May 2017 08:10:01 UTC 21343693 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21317390?utm_medium=rss Clearly a land grab by the Catholics - damn the souls dug up twice already and, why are their artefacts (ledgers) not relocated to state archives?

]]> Sat, 6 May 2017 10:08:42 UTC 21317390 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21316710?utm_medium=rss This is shocking news please leave the dead rest.

]]> Sat, 6 May 2017 01:02:46 UTC 21316710 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21316709?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 May 2017 01:02:37 UTC 21316709 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21295414?utm_medium=rss Sun, 30 Apr 2017 08:16:57 UTC 21295414 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21291732?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Apr 2017 05:06:46 UTC 21291732 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21290531?utm_medium=rss We need to remember our history and protect our first gravesites.

]]> Thu, 27 Apr 2017 06:08:42 UTC 21290531 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21290481?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Apr 2017 04:22:25 UTC 21290481 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21290465?utm_medium=rss Thu, 27 Apr 2017 04:00:28 UTC 21290465 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21290248?utm_medium=rss These headstones tell us about our history. Stop destroying our history.

]]> Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:01:54 UTC 21290248 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21289332?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:18:31 UTC 21289332 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21289318?utm_medium=rss Keep these historic graves intact. Let them rest in peace !

]]> Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:11:08 UTC 21289318 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21289235?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Apr 2017 11:11:38 UTC 21289235 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21289190?utm_medium=rss This is crazy to move heritage toomstones. We are slowly loosing Sydney's history it's awful

]]> Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:41:26 UTC 21289190 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21289186?utm_medium=rss Don't disrepect the remains any further let them RIP

]]> Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:40:15 UTC 21289186 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21289151?utm_medium=rss Please leave the graves alone. Our ancestors deserve to rest in peace and future generations have the right to knowing and seeing their past.

]]> Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:17:44 UTC 21289151 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21289144?utm_medium=rss Please leave these amazing old historical headstones. They moved my families in Lismore and it is not the same. Feel it is important to retain them as and where they are.

]]> Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:07:02 UTC 21289144 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21289137?utm_medium=rss Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:00:31 UTC 21289137 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21289022?utm_medium=rss Leave these poor buggers to rest in peace, it's a despicable act to even think of moving them… is it just that the church wants more money??!?? They should be ashamed.

]]> Wed, 26 Apr 2017 05:12:19 UTC 21289022 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21288479?utm_medium=rss Tue, 25 Apr 2017 09:43:35 UTC 21288479 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21288415?utm_medium=rss Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:56:51 UTC 21288415 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21287946?utm_medium=rss These graves need to be saved. How dare they be disturbed for profit of allowing others to be buried there...what a disgrace!

]]> Tue, 25 Apr 2017 01:58:33 UTC 21287946 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21287652?utm_medium=rss Tue, 25 Apr 2017 06:37:54 UTC 21287652 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21287647?utm_medium=rss These graves are precious.
Leave them alone

]]> Tue, 25 Apr 2017 06:18:41 UTC 21287647 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21287640?utm_medium=rss Tue, 25 Apr 2017 06:04:02 UTC 21287640 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21287624?utm_medium=rss Tue, 25 Apr 2017 05:28:10 UTC 21287624 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21286267?utm_medium=rss I have relatives buried here, but looking at headstones i can realise they get damaged by out side kids, & if no family to upkeep graves etc, i understand the need to remove some, if they could be placed in another section, those that can be moved.that may be alright. I came from Tas,& we had Cemeterys that they moved few of to new places & documented them, its a case of having to, as land is short, so old graves need go be reused or.? Nancg

]]> Mon, 24 Apr 2017 01:33:43 UTC 21286267 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21286188?utm_medium=rss Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:10:16 UTC 21286188 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21285981?utm_medium=rss Mon, 24 Apr 2017 07:59:34 UTC 21285981 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21285626?utm_medium=rss Please do not destroy this valuable site of Australian Cathilic History!

]]> Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:28:51 UTC 21285626 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21285587?utm_medium=rss Leave theses where they are. These mark the place where loved ones were buried. Are a tribute to history.

]]> Sun, 23 Apr 2017 11:40:42 UTC 21285587 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21285189?utm_medium=rss My relatives are buried there

]]> Sun, 23 Apr 2017 04:21:06 UTC 21285189 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21284956?utm_medium=rss Some of my relatives were moved here, so please do not destroy their reinterment site. Please let them te5st in peace!

]]> Sun, 23 Apr 2017 12:41:44 UTC 21284956 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21284759?utm_medium=rss Likely my husbands relatives. I'll need to check on this . They were RC and lived around Lewisham

]]> Sun, 23 Apr 2017 10:39:11 UTC 21284759 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21284740?utm_medium=rss I have friends buried at Rookwood, please let them REST IN PEACE, they served us well, please now serve them well.

]]> Sun, 23 Apr 2017 10:31:30 UTC 21284740 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21284532?utm_medium=rss my grandparents Julie and Pierce Marum are buried there

]]> Sun, 23 Apr 2017 08:50:51 UTC 21284532 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21284359?utm_medium=rss May I ask how many times do graves have to be relocated. Rookwood is the largest Southern Hemisphere Cemetery surely those graves which exist - don't have to be disturbed. Headstones are way of future generations can learn about past events.

]]> Sun, 23 Apr 2017 04:35:14 UTC 21284359 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21284238?utm_medium=rss My grand parents are buried at rookwood cemetery they have the right to rest in peace. It is disgraceful to take down headstones. What is happening in this country it is so disrespectful

]]> Sun, 23 Apr 2017 01:47:12 UTC 21284238 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21284210?utm_medium=rss Leave the graves of our dead where they were buried.

]]> Sun, 23 Apr 2017 01:08:00 UTC 21284210 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21284180?utm_medium=rss Enough of our heritage has been lost to good intentions, railway stations and parks. Please let our forebears REST IN PEACE. Leaving their little piece of souled headstones ALONE. Another way to make cash SHAME

]]> Sun, 23 Apr 2017 12:44:27 UTC 21284180 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21284165?utm_medium=rss These graves should be preserved for future generations to be able to look back into our history.

]]> Sun, 23 Apr 2017 12:25:13 UTC 21284165 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283891?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Apr 2017 08:08:04 UTC 21283891 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283452?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Apr 2017 01:26:01 UTC 21283452 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283352?utm_medium=rss If it wasn't for them we would not be here. Preserve our past..

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 11:40:37 UTC 21283352 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283336?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Apr 2017 11:05:50 UTC 21283336 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283315?utm_medium=rss Leave it alone

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 10:11:24 UTC 21283315 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283310?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Apr 2017 10:03:36 UTC 21283310 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283302?utm_medium=rss Let them rest in peace. Where is the respect and their rights. We pay for grave sites for a reason. Folks. are losing the,plot because of greed, the world over. Glad there are a few upstandiing people here to protect what is right. Find another less disruptive and disrespectful way for your trains.!!!

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 09:33:41 UTC 21283302 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283300?utm_medium=rss Please don't desecrate the graves of ancestors. Leave them alone to rest in peace

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 09:21:58 UTC 21283300 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283285?utm_medium=rss Many historic headstones are there. Let them rest in peace.

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 08:44:36 UTC 21283285 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283282?utm_medium=rss To even consider removing these graves would be a disgraceful act.

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 08:41:50 UTC 21283282 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283272?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Apr 2017 08:14:53 UTC 21283272 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283267?utm_medium=rss These graves should remain as part of our heritage. My family are buried in a heritage grave at this cemetery and I would be devastated if it was removed.

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 08:05:47 UTC 21283267 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283263?utm_medium=rss Progress comes at too higher price sometimes. Our history need to be preserved at all costs.

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 07:55:00 UTC 21283263 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283261?utm_medium=rss I think some of my forbears may be buried there. They should not be disturbed anyway.

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 07:49:20 UTC 21283261 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283254?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Apr 2017 07:28:21 UTC 21283254 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283252?utm_medium=rss Makes no sense to do do something like this! What a terrible shameful thing to do.

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 07:24:58 UTC 21283252 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283235?utm_medium=rss Too much of our heritage is being destroyed

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 06:50:37 UTC 21283235 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283198?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Apr 2017 05:55:23 UTC 21283198 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283195?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Apr 2017 05:51:53 UTC 21283195 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283190?utm_medium=rss May they rest in peace and the headstones be recorded for all history & genealogy people.

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 05:46:29 UTC 21283190 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283189?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Apr 2017 05:46:23 UTC 21283189 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283176?utm_medium=rss Many of my relatives were buried here

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 05:18:35 UTC 21283176 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283171?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Apr 2017 05:13:45 UTC 21283171 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283156?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Apr 2017 04:53:55 UTC 21283156 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283119?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Apr 2017 04:10:36 UTC 21283119 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283105?utm_medium=rss Lest we forget.

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 03:58:33 UTC 21283105 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283090?utm_medium=rss Please protect this land

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 03:47:42 UTC 21283090 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283041?utm_medium=rss We should be saving our heritage and old graves not destroying them - shame on the Government

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 03:13:48 UTC 21283041 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283039?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Apr 2017 03:11:27 UTC 21283039 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21283027?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Apr 2017 03:06:03 UTC 21283027 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21282982?utm_medium=rss Leave this important part of history alone. Do not remove the headstones.

]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2017 02:26:11 UTC 21282982 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/21282960?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Apr 2017 02:11:36 UTC 21282960