Tucked behind St Jude’s Anglican Church on Avoca Street, Randwick, the churchyard is one of those rare Sydney cemeteries that still feels like an English parish close — figs, freesias gone wild from old grave plantings, iron surrounds, and a quiet that the traffic on Avoca never quite ruins. Burials here run from 1858 (the first recorded is infant Edwin David Daintrey, September 1858) — before the present sandstone church was finished — through the late Victorian boom years when Randwicks well-heeled preferred to be buried next to their own church rather than shipped out to the general necropolis.
The roll-call is a who’s who of colonial Sydney if you walk it with a list in hand. Simeon Pearce, “father of Randwick” and first mayor; Archibald Mosman, who gave his name to the north-shore suburb; Sir Alfred Stephen, chief justice and lieutenant-governor; colonial secretary Sir Edward Deas Thomson; retail matriarch Ann Hordern; William Busby of Busbys Bore; Henry Mort and kin; Obed West, the old Sydney chronicler — the church’s own cemetery notes name them, and Randwick Council’s local-history pages agree on the big markers. The precinct (church, cemetery, rectory, verger’s residence) is on the State Heritage Register; the ground is small, about a hectare, and still readable as a Victorian Anglican burial ground rather than a lawn cemetery.
Spell it cemetery in the prose. The URL’s “cemetary” is a live typo we leave in the slug.