The New South Wales Post Office Directory
1886-1887 records RouseHill (sic) as 29 miles w. by rail and coach (4
miles) via Riverstone from Sydney:
1 Church (Eng.) post office
Rouse Hill cemetery is situated on about 1 acre on the
Northern
side of Mile End Road at Rouse Hill, it was originally attached to
Christ Church. The land over the rear fence being the Clergy's Horse
Paddock.
The original design shows a circular driveway with graves arranged on
both sides. There are approximately 180 grave sites on the plan.
The land on which it stands was originally granted to Thomas Clowes
and was later acquired by Robert Fitzgerald who married Elizabeth
Henrietta Rouse, the youngest child of Richard
Rouse. Robert donated the land to the Church of England.
The first burial is recorded as 6th April 1886
and the
The cemetery is the final resting place of a number of district
pioneers and descendents arranged in family plots.
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