BURIALS - ST JAMES PITT TOWN

 
 
There were just 52 burials performed at St James during this decade. 
St James was obviously a very small parish as on average only about five 
burials were performed each year.
 
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.
 
The Rev.Mathew Devenish Meares continued his chaplaincy from the previous 
decade until 1836. The Rev.Henry Tarlton Stiles managed the parish in 1837 
and Rev.John Espie Keane took over from 1838 until the end of the decade.
 
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 eight days for Hannah Gyatt to 81 years 
for John Wilkinson. The number of infants who did not live past their fifth 
birthday was 13 or 25% of all burials.
 
The identity of the deceased at St James has been discovered in 45 (or 87% of) 
cases during this decade.
 
There was one burial in the State Archives Pioneer Series file which 
has no entry on this parish register. It is very likely that this results 
from a typographical error and relates to a post 1840 burial.
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the relevant entry 
in the original source document. The reference numbers for St James 
continued from the previous decade and run sequentially from 0018 to 0069 
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 "SJPT" 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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