Fontainebleau Cemetery. Randburg.

Fontainebleau Cemetery. Randburg

This small overgrown cemetery hides behind a precast fence in Hans Strydom Drive in Randburg. Sadly nobody seems to care that it has become just a collection of graves in what is rapidly becoming a dump. There is no discernable entrance either so I was not able to venture inside, but shot some of these pics over the fence in 2007. I believe the land on which the cemetery is, is privately owned and not under the care of City Parks. The cemetery contains members of the Alberts, Breet, Carstens, Coetzee, Cornelsen, Darcey, Goosen, Griesel, Havenga, Havery, Herbst, Jacobs, Jankowitz, Janse Van Rensburg, Koch, Kruger, Louw, Malan, McDermott, Myburg, Nortjie, Norval, Oberholzer, Pretorius, Rabie, Reidelinghuys, Roos, Scholtz, Steenkamp, Steyn, Van As, Van Der Merwe, Van Der Walt, Van Dyk, Van Wijk, Van Zyl, Venter, Voges, Van Kleist, Vorster and Zietsman familes. The last burial as far as I can tell took place in 1973.
In May 2010 somebody rode into the wall and I was able to access the cemetery. Unfortunately it was terribly overgrown and almost impossible to find the graves inside to photograph. City Parks then started cleaning it up before fixing the wall. This gave me an opportunity to photograph some of the graves, the cleaning process has not revealed everything, but I live in hope. So far I have been in there on 3 occasions and each time have found more graves amongst the undergrowth, and while I will never get all of them photographed I am quite happy with what I was able to achieve so far. By August 2010 I had managed to identify 35 graves, but there are many duplicate stones that complicate the issue even further.

The cemetery can be found on Google Earth at 26° 6'39.72"S 27°59'25.83"E or Download the KMZ File

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