[1] The cemetery stands as a testament to the many different cultural groups with different religious affiliations that lived in the early years of the city.

[3] This reflects the cultural diversity of the town's early history which included Chinese, Japanese and Malay people.

Other deaths were soon to follow: in November of the same year trooper William Davies was killed by a crocodile off Lameroo Beach while swimming.

[4] There is also a monument to Edward (Ned) Tuckwell, buried in 1882, who along with his wife Eliza were involved in the pre-Darwin settlement at Escape Cliffs.

[2] The cemetery's most impressive headstone, in the form of a 1m marble angel, belongs to Thomas Crush, the Territory's first Labour member of Parliament in South Australia and whom along with his wife Fannie (later Haynes) built the Federation Hotel at Brocks Creek.

[1] The cemetery is now fenced to protect what remains, and is managed by the City of Darwin who undertook an upgrade project in 1983, one outcome of which was the installation of a plaque that displays some of the locations of graves and occupants.