Explore Toowong Cemetery Stories

The Friends of Toowong Cemetery have published over 550 individual stories about people remembered at the cemetery.

Individual stories have been grouped into over 50 themed collections below. Stories marked with are also self-guided walks.

Featured Stories

Shaping Queensland

• The Federation walk - commemorating four Queensland delegates to the 1891 National Australasian Convention
• Queensland Governors - stories about some of Queensland's earliest Governors (1868 to 1919)
• Brisbane Mayors - 14 stories of Brisbane Mayors (1859 to 1931) buried in Toowong Cemetery
• One Adult, One Vote - Queensland's own suffrage story
• Labor Luminaries - recognising people involved in the Labor movement
• The Great Shearers' Strike of 1891

Local stories

• Founding Fathers - members of the first Brisbane General Cemetery Trust
• Notable Women - Women who shaped Queensland
• Toowong Identities - commemorating the Centenary of the Proclamation of the Town of Toowong in 1903
• More Toowong Identities - commemorating the Centenary of the Proclamation of the Town of Toowong in 1903

Work and Industry

• Artists - discover famous local artists
• Fire fighters - Fire fighters of early Brisbane
• Health Professionals - commemorating Nurses, Doctors and other health professionals
• Judiciary - Early Judiciary buried in Toowong Cemetery
• Mariners - Anchors Aweigh!
• Monumental Masons - Sculpters of beautiful monuments in Toowong Cemetery
• Performers - Actors and Performers buried in Toowong Cemetery
• Police - remembering Queensland Colonial Police
• Print Media Identities of Early Brisbane
• More Print Media Identities of Early Brisbane
• Prospectors
• Sporting Personalities
• Railway People - A Journey from Sevastopol to Brunswick Street
• Undertakers
• Steam - stories about our steam-driven past
• Building Brisbane - recalling the builders of early Brisbane

Service and Sacrifice

• Colonial Conflicts
• Lest We Forget - remembering the men and women who gave their lives in service to their country
• Lest We Forget: Naval - commemorating the centenary of the Royal Australian Navy, 1911—2011
• Men of the Royal Navy
• Scots in the Australian Imperial Force in World War One
• 1919 Soldiers
• Conflict and Compassion

Communities & Culture

• Convicts - connections to our convict past
• The Irish
• The Lutherans
• The Jewish walk - A self-guided walk around Portion 3

Everyday Life

• One Year: 1923
• Christmas Shopping 1877 - stories about shop keepers and Christmas in 1877
• The Other Half - stories about women who made an impact on Queensland
• Christmas
• Erected by Family, Friends and Colleagues
• At the mercy of the weather
• 20/20 Vision
• Rich man, Poor man
• Taken before their time
• Children - Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me
• Mothers

Stories by location

• Portion 5 - part 1
• Portion 5 - part 2
• Portions 6 and 24
• Portions 15 and 16

Story Books

You may also be interested in our books:

• Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary People, a compilation of stories submitted by the public about people buried at Toowong Cemetery.
• Colonel Samuel Wensley Blackall: 1809-1871, commemorating the 140^th anniversary of Toowong Cemetery and the internment of Governor Samuel Wensley Blackall.