BURIALS - PARISH OF NORFOLK ISLAND

 
 
The first burial was performed at this parish in 1831. During the remainder 
of the decade there were only 109 more burials performed. Regrettably 
the register entries for burials prior to 1838 have not been located 
and as consequence very little information is recorded for each of the 
deceased.
 
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.
 
At the time of writing it is not known which chaplain/s was/were 
administering to the island before 1837 but the Rev. Henry Tarlton 
Stiles was the chaplain thereafter. It is recorded (in St Matthews 
Windsor's register) that the Rev.Thomas Sharpe was on the island in 
September 1834 to attend at the executions of six prisoners for mutiny.
 
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 ten months for Jane Borgin (but there 
were four other infants with exact ages not recorded) to 76 years for John 
Dicks and John Pennell (how sad to still be in servitude at that advanced 
age) with four others with no recorded age.
 
Despite extensive research the identity of the deceased at this parish 
has only been discovered in 86 (or 78% of) cases during this decade.
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the relevant entry 
in the original source document. 
 
The reference numbers for this parish run sequentially from 0001 to 0077 
at the end of 1838. The numbers were re-initialized to A001 in 1839 and 
reached A032 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 "NK-I" 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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