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Toowong Cemetery Symbolism Display

In Portion 2 of the cemetery, at the intersection of Soldiers Parade and Garland Avenue), you'll find a display of symbols on headstones. Some headstones are from the old Paddington cemetery, that were discovered in our Archaeology Digs.

Toowong Cemetery headstone symbolism display

The Headstones are listed from left to right. Click a name to read that person's story.

  1. William Henry Evan Morgan :material-mdiTrumpet:
  2. Ernest Alexander Cairncross
  3. Caroline Sophia Comyn Vallack
  4. John Mace
  5. Henry James Walsh
  6. unnamed Verney
  7. Frederick Shepperson
  8. Julius William Deedes
  9. Bridget MacDuff
  10. John Brougham Copeland
  11. Ernest Victor Williams
  12. Harry Dobbin Shepperson
  13. Dora
  14. Algernon Guthrie Mylne
  15. Vokes Sinclair Dudgeon
  16. Henry Joseph Thomas
  17. Empty space
  18. Ernest Elphinstone Dalrymple
  19. George Darby Blanche :fontawesome-regular-book-open:
  20. IHS symbol
  21. Julius Kopp
  22. Andrew S Ferguson, Jessie Manwaring, and Samuel Manwaring
  23. Francis Downes(Anchor symbol)


Learn more about headstone symbols in Toowong Cemetery


Ship's Anchor symbol carved on a headstone Bronze Greenman symbol on a headstone