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The cemetery was opened in 1891. A number of World War I graves (returned soldiers and soldiers who died of the flu and other causes at the nearby Narrowneck army camp) can be found here.
O'Neills Point and the cemetery were named for Alan and James O'Neill. Allan came to New Zealand as a surveyor for the New Zealand Land Co. in 1842, and arrived in Auckland from Taranaki in 1845. He and the government surveyor John Campbell were responsible for surveying Takapuna, Belmont and Devonport, and in 1849 Allan and his brother James, a doctor, bought 71 acres at the end of the Point. In 1857 Allan O'Neill built a family home there for himself, his wife Anne Sofia (nee Bell) and their seven children (John Henry, Allan Charles Jn., James Frederick, Elizabeth Margaret, Mary Henrietta, Annie Catherine and Jane Alice). James later served with distinction in the Royal NZ Navy in world War Two, serving on HMNZ Kiwi at Guadacanal when that vessel assisted in the sinking of a Japanese submarine in January 1943. Lots 10 and 11 Bayswater Point were originally purchased from the Crown in 1845 by Thomas Homes and William Joseph Pettit of Sydney for just over two hunderd and thirty five pounds. Source: http://ourboys.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/5070