Racecourse Burial Ground Ulladulla, NSW History Week 2026 Saturday 12 September 10.00am

Cemeteries can reveal powerful local history stories. Ulladulla-based historian and author Cathy Dunn will showcase the old pioneer Ulladulla Cemetery, a historic burial ground in South Ulladulla that was active from 1856 to 1900.

Although the site is now abandoned and only four headstones remain, about 100 people are believed to have been buried there. As part of History Week NSW 2026, Cathy Dunn will share the cemetery’s history, stories, and burials, including those of Indigenous people and local pioneer families.

This is a free event as part of History Week NSW 2026 on Saturday 12 September 2026 on site at 171 Princes Highway Ulladulla (on the western side at South Ulladulla).  

NSW History Week 2026: Set in Stone ‘Keeping Stories’. Ulladulla-based historian and author Cathy Dunn of Australian History Research is a member of the History Council of NSW.

Ulladulla’s pioneer burial ground is or rather was situated just on the Princes Highway at South Ulladulla. (yes one drives over a section of the cemetery along the Princes Highway).

The burial ground was laid out in July 1858 with the last known burial in 1900.

It has been known as Ulladulla General cemetery and Racecourse Cemetery. Only four headstones remain today from just on 100 burials.

Burials
Araluen, Bailey, Beattie, Bell, Bolton, Bowen, Bowie, Bradley, Brady, Buchan, Bunyah, Butson, Campbell, Collins, Condon, Cooley, Delany, Donnley, Ellis, Flynn, Frazer, Hession, Jenkins, Johnson, Kerry, Lloyd, Lynn, Madden, Mackay, McFarlane, McGuire, McLean, Millard, Mitchell, Moore, Munn, Murrum, Myers, Nye, Parson, Pickering, Pitman, Ralphs , Robinson, Ryan, Seccombe, Shields, Smith, Steele, Sturrock, Temple, Walter. There are many children and Aboriginal people buried in this cemetery.