BURIALS - ST ANNES KISSING POINT

 
 
There were 82 burials performed at St Thomas during this decade. On average 
about eight per year.
 
The information recorded for each burial is as follows:
 burial date
 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.
 
The Rev.Charles Pleydell Neale Wilton continued as chaplain from the 
previous decade but only for 1831 when Rev.Charles Dickinson took over 
until 1838. The Rev.George E Turner became chaplain 1839 and remained 
for the rest of the decade. The Rev. Henry Bobart conducted two burials 
in 1837 and Rev. William Clarke conducted a burial in 1839.
 
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 Rev.Turner obviously did not feel the need to bother himself with 
recording the additional information of 'Date of Death' in 1839 & 1840, 
even though he was using the new government forms which required it. 
On the other hand he took advantage of the missing column for 'Ship of 
Arrival' to occasionally record this as well.
 
The ages at death ranged from six days for Charles Devlin to 81 years 
for Richard Hawkes. The number of infants who did not live past their 
fifth birthday was 22 or 23% of all burials.
 
Despite extensive research the identity of the deceased at St Annes 
has only been discovered in 60 (or 72% of) cases during this decade.
 
Kevin Shaw & Janice Eastment's "The Churchyard on the Hill: St Annes 
at Ryde, NSW" was also most helpful in providing information.
 
The Lunatic Asylum in Liverpool was closed down in 1838 and from 1839 St 
Anne's began to receive burials form the new asylum at Tarban Creek 
(Gladesville) although in 1833 and 1836 there were burials of 'lunatics' 
whose abode was given as Tarban Bay.
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the relevant entry 
in the original source document. The reference numbers for St Annes 
continued from the previous decade at 0022 and run uninterruptedly to 
0103 at 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 "SAKP" 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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