William Holden arrived in South Australia with his family on the ship 'Trusty' in 1838. He was unable to find employment as a newspaper reporter and opened a store and butchers shop on his allotment of
land facing Grand Junction Road near the present Valley Road. It was William who named Hope Valley following a bush fire which destroyed his shop and home.
In 1849 William Holden, formed a local committee to establish a school for the
growing number of children in the village of Hope Valley. Enough
money was raised to purchase one acre of land west of the Bremen Hotel facing
Grand Junction Road for £10. The block was divided into three smaller allotments,
one of which was for use as the Hope Valley Cemetery.
The Tea Tree Gully Historical Society embarked on a project
to record all the headstones in the Hope Valley Cemetery, so as to preserve the
details and history of them for future researchers. This CD-ROM is a compilation
of their work and includes deaths up to September 2006. Each headstone has been transcribed, as well as photographed
(often including more than one photograph for each).
The opening screen allows you to read about the history of
the cemetery, view the compilers page, or go to the alphabetical listings of
those buried with a headstone. This photographic images CD was compiled to
preserve for all time the headstones of our ancestors graves.
