In the very early days when there were no other cemeteries, Roman Catholic and Presbyterian burials were also received for a time. To avoid fording the creek through the Glebe, the hearse used to follow a bush track through Rathluba, from the Buchanan road, but the route has now been engulfed by a housing estate. The need to record the remaining history from the burial ground became evident with the threat of bad weathering and also vandalism. Fortunately, however, there still remain many graves of outstanding historical value. The massive Clift vault with its double chest tombs, which was resealed following desecration, was said to the largest and most ornamented in the colony outside Sydney.
Many graves record the birthplaces of the deceased.
Some stones have rhymes or may carry warnings to all who read them, while others tell something of the life of the person buried there. Early ones are often unusual and may bear the spelling mistakes of an ignorant mason. For these reasons the resulting historical survey, which is a complete record of all the remaining gravestones, presents the full inscriptions. Masons' marks have been recorded where they were easily legible. In the pages which follow, the inscriptions were copied from headstones, or as is individually stated in some cases, from square tombs, chest tombs or vaults.