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Tombstones at Muizenberg Cemetery

This cemetery was to have become one of the prettiest in the Peninsula with the
planting, one hundred years ago, of thousands of trees. But these beautiful conditions

have not materialised and it remains a bleak and insufficiently maintained place. Many

graves have been undermined by the burrowings of scores of moles. (Fig. 2.16).

The original entrance at the south-west corner, with its fine Lych Gate, has been
abandoned and replaced by an entrance farther north for hearses and cars. (Fig. 2.17).

The Lychgate is made of teak and contains the following inscription in its timbers:

Love is stronger than death
In token or humble submission to Almighty God
and in memory of Margaret Elizabeth Freemantle
This gate was built by her husband, lover and friend AVC 12 – 1910.
Excubitors Pernoc Teurus

The oldest grave is that of:

Anna Wolff gebore Radomsky
Gebore 23 Juli 1866
Gesterf 17 November 1903

Also nearby is the grave of Elizabeth Fish, wife of Mr. R. Fish who was unable to get
permission for her burial at Holy Trinity in 1909.

There are many names from the Kalk Bay Fishing Community on the numerous

headstones: Erispe, Fernandez, da Silva, Pepino, Gomez, Trimmel, Clarence, Orgill,

and Sassman, amongst others.

The Moslem Community is also present and a simple tablet marks the place where the
remains of those buried at “Die Land” were re-interred in 1940. (Fig. 2.18).

Among the rest of the tombstones are the names of members of the local community

from all walks of life.