Maitland Cemetery Project
On the 16th October 2010 Ancestry24 will carry on with their mammoth project of photographing every headstone in the Cemetery. Browse the Gallery of photos already taken at Maitland Cemetery
To help photograph and tag the images from this cemetery please contact Heather
As part of their civic duty and preservation of National Heritage these headstones once photographed and tagged will be available to the public for free on the Ancestry24 website’s gallery.
With over 100 000 souls buried in this huge cemetery it covers a massive span of 100 hectares. The first burial took place on 16 January 1886. This graveyard is now nearing its capacity and needs to be retained as a haven of remembrance as well as a place where it is safe to walk around the rich heritage of the famous and not so famous people who have made the City of Cape Town what it is today.
A large proportion of bodies from the old Somerset Road Cemetery have been re interred in Maitland Cemetery. Many of the headstones are laid out as paths, some put up against the wall and others lay buried under mounds of mole hills.
Burials from 1888 have already been transcribed
I am trying to trace the death record of DAVID BOLDMAN (Jewish) whom died sometime after 1910 in a motorcycle accident in Cape Town area and may have been buried in Maitland Cemetary, could you advise if he is in your transcribed records upto 1925.
I am visiting the area on holiday soon, if you have any suggestions that may be worth looking into when I visit I would be most grateful.
Many thanks, David.
Hi David
We have not started on Jewish section yet but plan to do that in the next year.
You can email Hayley van der Ross hayley.vanderross@capetown.gov.za at Cape Town City Parks where the records are kept. She can provide you with details of the plot etc.
kind regards
Heather
Oh, currently no records can be viewed. A request to view this gallery – or indeed any gallery on the website – leads to the same message:
https://ancestry24.co.za/maitland-cemetery-project/
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Hi John
We have just done a major update on Ancestry24 and added 40 new books, Government Gazettes, Newspaper feeds from Naspers newspapers as well as searchable family trees. A few gremlins got in and we have almost caught them all. Should be all hunky dory soon.