Loyalist Cemetery in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick

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Get directions 180 King St.
Saint Andrews, Charlotte County, New Brunswick E5B 1Y7 Canada

Coordinates: 45.07774, -67.04897
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The Loyalist or "Church of England" Cemetery was established in 1794 on land sold to the town of St. Andrews by Jeremiah Pote, who likely wanted a place to commemorate his 24-year-old son, Robert, who had recently died at sea.
The cemetery was added to in 1821 through an adjoining lot obtained from Colonel Thomas Wyer.

It was the sole cemetery for all St. Andrews residents until the Greenock Presbyterian Church opened in 1824, where most local Presbyterians began to be interred.

The cemetery was closed in 1867 due to provincial by-laws prohibiting burials within town limits.

The iron and stone fence and gate were erected in 1905 with a bequest for that purpose of £1,000 from Owen Jones, a local lad who achieved success in England. As the cemetery contained his parents' graves he acted to set it off in a more permanent way from the many wooden fences which had come and gone over the years. It was called "Roary's fence" in reference to his boyhood nickname.

In 1903 the gravestone inscriptions were printed in the historical journal Acadiensis, a quarterly concerning the Maritime Provinces. In 1977-78 the cemetery was refurbished, the gravestones mapped, photographed, and inscriptions transcribed anew.

The cemetery is under the care of the Anglican Parish of St. Andrews and can be visited by arrangement with the Parish Office next to All Saints Church on King Street.