Kapunda General Cemetery - Clare Road.

Entrance to the Kapunda General Cemetery on Clare Road, circa 1900 [SLSA B 69054/84]

A closer look at the Kapunda General Cemetery Commital Service Shelter within the cemetery ground, circa 1900 SLSA [B 69054/83]

  St John’s Catholic Cemetery – Kapunda: 
Burial Records: Old and Early Section:
 T-Z

Researched and compiled by Peter Swann

I would like to acknowledge the support of local historian and former caretaker of St John’s Cemetery, Peter Swann for supplying the cemetery records, and his ongoing support.

Surname                        Christian Names                        Age            Date of Death       Row/ Location

  St John’s Catholic Cemetery – Kapunda: 
Burial Records: Old and Early Section:
 O-S

Researched and compiled by Peter Swann

I would like to acknowledge the support of local historian and former caretaker of St John’s Cemetery, Peter Swann for supplying the cemetery records, and his ongoing support.

     Surname                        Christian Names                  Age            Date of Death       Row/ Location

  St John’s Catholic Cemetery – Kapunda: 
Burial Records: Old and Early Section:
 J-N

Researched and compiled by Peter Swann

I would like to acknowledge the support of local historian and former caretaker of St John’s Cemetery, Peter Swann for supplying the cemetery records, and his ongoing support.

Surname                        Christian Names                        Age            Date of Death       Row/ Location

  St John’s Catholic Cemetery – Kapunda: 
Burial Records: Old and Early Section:
 D-H

Researched and compiled by Peter Swann

I would like to acknowledge the support of local historian and former caretaker of St John’s Cemetery, Peter Swann for supplying the cemetery records, and his ongoing support. 

     Surname                      Christian Names                      Age            Date of Death       Row/ Location

St John’s Catholic Cemetery – Kapunda: Burial Records: Old and Early Section: A-C

 St John’s Catholic Cemetery – Kapunda: 

Burial Records: Old and Early Section:

 A-C

Researched and compiled by Peter Swann

I would like to acknowledge the support of local historian and former caretaker of St John’s Cemetery, Peter Swann for supplying the cemetery records, and his ongoing support.

 St Johns - A Ghost Story

This is a similar story, but not the same as, the one published in Valerie Laughton’s book, "True Barossa Ghosts"

 

"In 1980 fourteen students from Kapunda went to Saint John’s Cemetery and reformatory at night. They heard a rumbling, bumping sound; they saw a marble slab move back from one the graves. they could not see any ropes or wires attached and saw nothing emerge. The vases began to move, and the flowers were flung into the air. The students saw a semi-transparent girl with a long white gown, with long dark hair carrying a hurricane lantern that had a yellowish glow moving through the cemetery. Gravestones could be seen through her. the figure glided through a fence and headed towards the old reformatory ruins. She entered the ruins moving through the rooms and passageway and could be seen by the students through the broken windows. After a period of time, the figure headed back down the hill and back to the cemetery. She rose from the ground and her feet could be seen, she thinned into a yellowish-white light and spun herself and drove speedily into the earth. The students worked up the courage and slowly moved into the area where the ghostly figure disappeared. They found a circular spot with strange markings imprinted into the soil."

 

Would you believe the validity of a group of school children who are out thrill-seeking and drinking, who then come home from a "spooky" cemetery and tell this story?