Two Scotsmen arrived together in New South Wales in 1823 and came to Wallerawang in the following year: James Walker (1785-1856) was the senior man, with merchant capital, and held the initial grant; Andrew Brown (1797-1894) was his manager initially but acquired land at Cooerwull very soon. Both Walker and Brown ran large flocks of sheep on far-flung runs on the Castlereagh River and both became extremely wealthy. Both Walker and Brown established private cemeteries but Walker's was less exclusive than Brown's (A050). The first burial on 6 October 1841 was Bridget Murray, presumably the daughter of old Ned Murray, Walker's Irish emancipist cattle-man in Wolgan Valley and another Murray called James was buried in 1856. James Walker himself died in 1856 and was buried in style. His daughter Georgina married as her first husband Edmund Barton and members of the Barton family are buried at Wallerawang, most notably James L Walker Barton and his sister Lucy who were murdered at the homestead in 1948. This tragedy ended the family's association with Wallerawang which was sold in 1949. The Electricity Commission acquired the estate when Wallerawang Power Station was planned and the cooling pond created by damming the Cox flooded the homestead and occasioned the remodelling of the cemetery by Stonehill PL. The Barton family still retains an interest in the cemetery but the land is owned by the relevant electricity generator, Pacific Power and since 1997 Delta.
One grave of especial significance is that of Thomas Brown of Eskbank, not a member of the family but the founding father of industrial Lithgow and a fellow Scot who was buried here in 1889.
Historical Period Built 1826 - 1850 Historical Period Built Post 1975, Used 1826 - 1850, Used 1851 - 1875, Used 1876 - 1900, Used 1901 - 1925, Used 1926 - 1950