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Goodna Cemetery 

The New South Wales Government proclaimed Goodna Cemetery as a Cemetery in 1859.

The earliest tombstone dates back to 1864, but the first recorded burial did not occur until 1873. In the 1940s bodies of former patients were exhumed and relocated to the Goodna Cemetery.  In 1970 the remaining headstones at the Asylum were also transferred to the Goodna Cemetery. In 2024 more headstones were found amongst vegetation away from the current and were moved to where the current headstones have been grouped.  At one point a number of the original metal grave number indicators that came from the original cemetery were gathered together and placed in two groupings to commemorate the patients.

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​​​Goodna Cemetery Woogaroo Asylum Memorial List ​

Picture Ipswich taken in 1991 we see where originally the grave markers from number “3” cemetery were located at the Goodna cemetery before moving to where they are today all together down the back corner

Heritage documents for The Park have noted this in its end notes so I decided to chase up this document for its relation to the Asylum but all I could see are the familiar names of the first Medical Superintendent and asylum designer Kersey Cannan and former Wolston House owner Matthew Goggs.

Site today being maintained and cleaned the former patients are being looked after by a former Wolston Park Patient and volunteers 


  • ANNOUNCEMENT

Review into Wolston Park Hospital
A review of health services provided at Wolston Park Hospital between the 1st of January 1950 and the 31st of December 2000 is currently taking place.
Leading the review is Professor Robert Bland AM.
Professor Bland is a mental health expert having worked in mental health and academic settings since 1972, where he gained extensive experience in hospital and community settings, administration, teaching and research.
As the leader for the review, Professor Bland will leverage his long-standing interest in the welfare of family caregivers supporting long-term mental illness and his dedicated research history in mental health recovery to listen to the patients, residents and family caregivers of those who were in care at Wolston Park Hospital.
This independent review will facilitate patients and family members or carers to describe their experiences during the period concerning their treatment and experience whilst an inpatient of Wolston Park Hospital.
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