[6] A brick wall was erected before any interments took place to enclose its 4 acres (1.6 hectares).

A road was formed along the southern boundary of the cemetery in the first half of the 1830s and was called Devonshire Street.

The Devonshire Street Cemetery, where many of the early settlers were buried, was later moved to build the Sydney railway terminus.

Bunnerong Cemetery, south of the city, had a tram line constructed to make the removal of recasketed remains as simple as possible.

An index created from a number of previous collections of information, including some remaining original cemetery registers, called the Devonshire Street Cemetery re-interment register and index ("microform" format) was produced by the Library of Australian History, North Sydney, 1999.