For most genealogists, trying to find out when a certain church cemeteries opened is important for tracing your relatives. I am trying to find dates of these places to make it easier for you to find those missing records. If you can add or help with any additional information kindly contact Heather.
Rondebosch Church opened for divine service 17th February 1834. This was not the present St Paul’s but a smaller one which was afterwards used as a chancel. Old Rustenburg Estate area was used to house coloured squatters. 1843 May 19
Rondebosch Mission Chapel (started by St Paul’s) which is now St Thomas’ Church, Rondebosch
Rondebosch: St. Paul’s
Wynberg St Johns Church : A group of evangelical Anglicans started worshipping together in Glebe cottage, Waterloo Road in Wynberg. As their numbers grew it became necessary to build a church. Legal authority was embodied in Ordinance 6 of 1833 (known as the Wynberg English Church Ordinance). The church was built and first consecrated in 1834.
Simonstown St Francis of Assis Church – 28 Aug 1857
Cape Town St Georges Church – 18 April 1859
Claremont St Saviours – 27 Dec 1859
Kirstenbosch: The Good Shepherd Anglican Church
Cape Town St Johns – 25 Oct 1861
Claremont Cemetery – 06 June 1865
Papendorp Woodstock St Mary’s Church – 1859
Rondebosch Cemetery St. Pauls – 30 March 1880
Cape Town St Paul – 01 Nov 1881
Black River Cemetery – 03 Apr 1886
Cape Town St Phillip – 07 April 1888
Cape Town St Marks – 1865
Eerste Rivier: St Pauls – 1848
St Matthew – 30 Nov 1894
Newlands St Andrews
Maitland Cemetery 1888 – Are you looking for Cemetery records in South Africa? Are you looking for plot cards for Maitland Cemetery or to have a personalised visit and graves photographed? I offer this skilled service of finding graves and obtaining plot cards which provides the names of all the people buried in any grave, when they were buried, owner of the plot and which section the grave is in the cemetery. Visits to any cemetery is dangerous and should not be done on your own.
Cape Town site of St Georges consecrated October 1827
Somerset Road Burial Ground Septemer – 1832
Rondebosch Burial Ground – 1832
Wynberg Burial Ground February – 1834
If you have any church dates to add or you need to find our where people were buried in Cape Town please contact me
