BURIALS - PRESBYTERIAN OTHER PARISHES 

 
 
This list records 17 Presbyterian kirks 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. Even when combined  these churches 
and  parishes onnly  totalled  186  burials. Unfortunately, apart from 
the six parishes; Scots Kirk Bathurst, Scots  Kirk Denbie-Hunter District, 
Scots Kirk Wollongong,  Scots Kirk  Wisemans Ferry, Scots Kirk Durham & 
Gloucester & Scots Kirk Whittingham all other parish registers have not been 
located. Most of these parishes were only established in the later years of 
the decade.
 
The churches and parishes listed are as follows, arranged by date of 
establishment:
 
     23 Oct 1833:Scots Kirk Bathurst {SKB}
     13 Nov 1835:Scots Kirk: Denbie; Hunter District; Maitland; Morpeth; Paterson; Singleton {DENB}                                                                        
        Nov 1837:Scots Kirk: Illawarra District; Kiama; Wollongong {SKW}                                                                                       
     11 Dec 1838:Scots Kirk Wisemans Ferry {WISE}                                                                                                             
     18 Feb 1839:Scots Kirk: Durham and Gloucester {SKDG}                                                                                                                
     03 Feb 1840:Scots Kirk Whittingham {WHIT} 
                                                  
            1834:Parish of Sydney (Parish Not Stated); Woolloomooloo {WOOL}                                                                                  
            1835:St Lawrence Kirk Sydney {SLKS}                                                                                                              
            1835:Scots Kirk Hawkesbury District {HAWK}                                                                                                                   
            1836:Scots Kirk: Pitt Town; Wilberforce {PITT}                                                                                                                
            1837:St Matthews Kirk Windsor {SMKW}                                                                                                              
            1838:St Peters Kirk Campbelltown {SPKC}                                                                                                              
            1838:Scots Kirk: Cambellfield; Melbourne; Port Phillip District {CAMB}                                                                                         
            1839:Scots Kirk Broulee {BROU}                                                                                                                    
            1839:Scots Kirk: Bungonia; Goulburn {SKBG}                                                                                                         
            1840:Scots Kirk: St Vincent; Murray and Auckland (itinerant) {SKSV}                                                                               
            1840:Scots Kirk Geelong Port Phillip District {GEEL}                                                                                                         
                
The information recorded for each burial is as follows:
               burial date
               death date (very occasionally)
               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.
                
From  the  start of the new decade each burial  record  included; reference 
number, date of burial, Christian name of the deceased, family  name  of  
the  deceased, age, abode,  year  and  ship  of arrival, quality or profession 
and officiating minister. In  1839 the  Ship  of Arrival column was removed 
from the  official  forms to  be replaced by a Date of Death column but 
these new  forms do not appear to have been used by the three churches 
transcribed in this list. 
 
For  the colonial born their year of birth and parents names  are recorded 
in the ship of arrival column.
 
For  the twelve parishes which have not been prescribed the  only information 
recorded in the State Archive records was;  reference number,  year of burial, 
Christian name of the  deceased,  family name of the deceased and age. All 
other information appearing  in these parishes is the result of personal 
research.
 
The ages of most of the 'infants' was not specified, but assuming most were 
under six the number of infants who did not live past their fifth  birthday was 
71 or 38% of all burials recorded here. 
 
There were fourteen duplicate entries amongst the parishes listed 
here,  eight  for other Presbyterian churches (since  nearly  all being   
small   parishes  this  may  indicate  that   they   were administered 
by chaplains who had parishes elsewhere and who  may have  just  
duplicated the entries in their principal  parish  of responsibility);  
six  for other Anglican  churches  (these  seem strange  since unlike 
baptisms and marriages a burial  cannot  be performed twice).
 
There were eight in Scots Kirk Denbigh, seven from St Peters East 
Maitland and one from Christ Church Newcastle.
 
There  were four in St Matthews Kirk Windsor all from  Ebenezer  Kirk 
Portland Head.
 
William Fraser from St Lawrence Kirk Sydney is a duplicate of the St  
Andrews Kirk Sydney entry and Benjamin Reid from  Scots  Kirk Bungonia 
is a duplicate of the Anglican Bungonia parish entry.
 
The  reference  number would direct the reader  to  the  relevant entry  
in the original source document. For the  twelve  parishes which  have  not 
been transcribed the  State  Archives  reference numbers have been retained.
 
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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