People believed to be buried in the Holy Trinity Churchyard Cemetery, Huskisson:
-King Budd Billy II, James Golding/Golden/Goulding, age c 90, d 1905
-James Dann/ Carpenter Dann/ Jimmy Dann age 65, d Dec 1913
-Rebecca Golding/Goulding d 1935
-Jack (Johnnie) Campbell d 1938
-Mickey Bell d May 1905
-Unknown Sailor, d 1870
-John Lucy, age 63, d Oct 1873
-William Dent, age 1 day old, d 14 May 1899
-Carl Niclasson age 32 d 1912 Swedish Whale Boat Sailor
Further Possibles:
-John House age 4, d 3 Feb 1865
-Arthur Steel, age 2, 3 Aug 1865
-Edward Will Honnor, age 50, d 16 Nov 1884
-Edward Cooper, age 80, d Sept 1918
Research is ongoing and as more historical documents are digitised, we anticipate more will be uncovered in future
Evening-News-Sydney-NSW-_-1869-1931-Saturday-22-July-1905-page-8Mary Salmon, ‘In the Shoalhaven District, vi. Jervis Bay’: Evening News, 22 July 1905, p 8. This article contains a photograph of Jimmy, King of Jervis Bay and his Queen, photographed by C S Moss of Nowra.
The article is sub-titled Jervis Bay but is exclusively about Huskisson. The penultimate paragraph refers to the burial of Jimmy, the ‘old king of Jervis Bay, who only a few weeks ago died … The poor old widow was very proud that her man ‘had a Christian burial, with a minister, in the churchyard.’
There was no other church in the vicinity at this early date.
This photo of Mary Carpenter (AKA Queen Mary and Mary Golding) aged around 105 appeared in the Sydney Telegraph 29th November 1927. Mary died three months later and was buried with much ceremony at Bilong (now Myola) across the Currambene Creek from Huskisson.
The younger woman is her daughter, Rebecca Golding. Rebecca was buried on the Holy Trinity Church site. Her death certificate dated 4th of February 1935 says so.
The local church wardens and the hopeful developer have never acknowledged this burial. The records are on file at the Jervis Bay Maritime Museum. The researchers who produced a heritage report for the developer do not appear to have used this museum’s extensive local archive.
Significantly Niclassen was interred next to an unknown sailor, buried 42 years previously. This means there were burials on the site before it was gifted to the Anglican Church. He was buried “behind the Union Church”. The Union Church was originally sited at the north eastern area of the block, where the 1970s rectory is now. This would indicate that burials were in the area many claim James Golding was buried.
The above Graves in Church Yard notes were assembled by Helen Ruttley probably in the latter part of the 1990s. Helen did a lot of work on the history of the site and campaigned to have the Church heritage listed. They are in the Shoalhaven Historical Society archive.