Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park is a cemetery and crematorium at Matraville

Matraville, New South Wales

Matraville is an older established area of the lower Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Matraville is located approximately 9 kilometres by road south-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of...

, in the eastern suburbs

Eastern Suburbs (Sydney)

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 of Sydney

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, Australia

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. Land was dedicated as a cemetery site in 1888, with the first interment recorded on 21 August 1893. Since then, more than 65,000 people have been buried there. The crematorium was opened in 1938.

The memorial park incorporates Botany Cemetery, Eastern Suburbs Crematorium and Pioneer Park.

Pioneer Park is where headstones from early Sydney burial grounds have been relocated.