BURIALS - ANGLICAN OTHER PARISHES

 
 
This list records 21 Anglican churches and parishes all of which were 
established during the decade 1831 to 1840 and all of which recorded less 
than fifty burials in their registers. However when combined these churches 
and parishes totalled 224 burials.
 
The churches and parishes listed are as follows, arranged by date of 
establishment:
 
 10 Oct:1836 Parish of Australian Agricultural Company; Dungog; Eldon; Stroud; Uffington (County of Gloucester) {AAC} 
 07 Jan:1837 St Johns: Brisbane; Moreton Bay {SJMB}
 13 Mar:1838 Parish of Brisbane Water (County of Northumberland) {BR-W}
 16 Mar:1838 St Marys West Maitland (County of Northumberland) {SMWM}
 10 Aug:1838 Parish of Canbury; Lake George; Queanbeyan {CANB}
 12 Aug:1838 Parish of Montefiores; Wellington District {MONT}
 04 Sep:1838 St Thomas Mulgoa (County of Cumberland) {STM}
 20 Oct:1838 Parish of Alnwick; Butterwick; Clarence Town; Middlehope; Raymond Terrace; Seaham (County Glouster) {RAYT}
 10 Nov:1838 Parish of Gundaroo; Gunning; Yass (County of Murray & King) {YASS}
 29 Dec:1838 St Lukes Scone (County of Brisbane) {SLSC}
 16 Jan:1839 Parish of Cabramatta; Denham Court; St Marys {CABR}
 04 Mar:1839 St Peters: Cooks River; Petersham {SPCR}
 23 Jul:1839 St Stephens Penrith {SSP}
 02 Nov:1839 Parish of Houghton {HOUG}
 18 Nov:1839 St Johns: Oakville; Whittingham; Wollombi {SJWO}
 09 Dec:1839 Parish of Althorpe; Brougham; Invermein; Rowan (County of Durham) {ALTH}
 23 Jan:1840 Parish of Bungonia (County of Argyle) {BUNG}
 08 Mar:1840 St Johns: Camden; Picton; Stonequarry; The Oaks (County of Camden) {SJC}
 26 Mar:1840 Parish of Ashfield; Balmain; Burwood; Concord {ASHF}
 06 May:1840 St Marks Appin (County of Cumberland) {SMA}
 12 Oct:1840 St Mary Magdalene's: Clydesdale; South Creek {SMMC}
 
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
 
The burials within each church and parish are listed in chronological 
order.
 
Various miscellaneous remarks in the register have been recorded as 
'end-notes' at the bottom of each church or parish.
 
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 one day for James Price and Jane Wilcox to 67 
years for Cornelius Sheehan. The number of infants who did not live past 
their fifth birthday was 73 or 31% of all burials. The ages of six adults 
were not recorded.
 
All the officiating ministers are listed at the end of the web page, 
of whom there are twenty three in addition to three other lay persons who 
officiated in the place of a clergyman.
 
The entry for Georgiana Black is duplicated from Christ Church Castlereagh 
to the Parish of Penrith but as Rev.Fulton management of both parishes 
at the time he may have confused where he performed the burial.
 
In 1838 at St Johns Brisbane an unusual entry occurs of the burial 
of a 'non-burial'. Apparently Daniel Sweeney died but 'the body was not 
found' with no other explanatory details provided! A second instance of 
a burial without a body occurred in the parish of Ashfield in 1840 when 
the burial of the infant Ellen Jones is recorded even though she was 
interned at sea.
 
In four of the parishes the incumbent had the melancholy duty to bury his 
own child; Rev.Cowper at Stroud buried his daughter, Rev.Handt at Moreton 
Bay buried his son, Rev.Makinson at Mulgoa buried his daughter and 
Rev.Middleton at Raymond Terrace buried his son.
 
There were six burials in the State Archives Pioneer Series file which 
have no entry on this parish register. It is very likely that most of 
these 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. 
 
To locate an entry on this list; firstly an alphabetical search on the 
name would be made on List 5 using the parish code listed in the table 
above 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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