BURIALS - ALL SAINTS SUTTON FOREST

 
 
There were 145 burials performed at All Saints during this decade. On 
average a little over one per month.
 
The information recorded for each burial is as follows:
 burial date
 death date (after 1838)
 Christian name
 family name
 age
 abode
 civil status at time of death
 year and ship of arrival
 quality or profession
  officiating minister
 reference number
 
Various miscellaneous remarks in the register have been recorded as 
'end-notes' at the bottom of the list.
 
The burials are listed in chronological order.
 
Even though the Rev.Thomas Hassall was appointed as the chaplain to the 
parish of All Saints Sutton Forest, he only performed one burial in 1832, 
Mr.Layton the catechist, performed all the rest. In 1833 the Rev.John 
Vincent was appointed the new chaplain and he stayed until May 1840 
(during this time Vincent was also responsible for the pastoral needs 
of the Goulburn district and the County of Argyle generally) and then in 
July 1840 Rev.George Vidal was appointed chaplain.
 
At the beginning of this decade the information to be recorded on the 
official government supplied forms for each burial was; reference number, 
date of burial, Christian name of the deceased, family name of the deceased, 
age, abode, ship of arrival, quality or profession and officiating 
minister. 
 
Regrettably in 1839 the 'Ship of Arrival' column was removed from the 
official forms altogether but it was still occasionally recorded by 
nothing like as often as previously. The year and ship of arrival have 
been heavily researched outside the parish register.
 
The 'Ship of Arrival' column was replaced by a 'Date of Death' column,
making identification much more difficult.
 
For the colonial born their year of birth and parents names are recorded 
in the 'Ship of Arrival' column.
 
The ages at death ranged from two days for James Kinmen to 76 years 
for Michael McGlynn (although if his age on the indent is correct he was 
only 71). The number of infants who did not live past their fifth birthday 
was 39 or 27% of all burials. The ages of eight adults were not recorded.
 
Despite extensive research the identity of the deceased at All Saints 
has only been discovered in 102 (or 71% of) cases during this decade.
 
There were two burials in the State Archives Pioneer Series file which 
have no entry on this parish register. It is very likely that both result 
from typographical errors and relate to post 1840 burials.
 
The reference number would direct the reader to  the relevant entry 
in the original source document. The reference numbers for All Saints run 
sequentially from the previous decade 0008 to 0111 at the end of 1838. 
In 1839 the numbers were re-initialized to A001 and ran to A041 by the 
end of the decade. 
 
To locate an entry on this list; firstly an alphabetical search on the 
name would be made on List 5 using code "ASSF" from which the date of 
burial would be retrieved, secondly using the appropriate date, the 
burial would then be located on this list.

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