BURIALS - ST PETERS CAMPBELLTOWN

 
 
There were 146 burials performed at St Peters during this decade. On average 
just over one per month.
 
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
 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. Thomas Reddall was appointed chaplain to St Peters Campbelltown 
in 1822. He spent all his clerical life at St Peters until his death in 
1838. In 1859 his son, Rev. Thomas Reddall jnr., took over his fathers 
old parish.
 
After Rev.Reddall's death a variety of ministers officiated at the parish 
including the Reverends; John Duffus, Robert Forrest, Thomas Reddall, Hart 
Davis Draper Spalding, Richard Taylor, John Vincent and it is hard to 
determine who was the actual incumbent but most likely Rev.Forrest. 
Interestingly in December 1838 the Rev. W Gilchrist, a Presbyterian 
Minister, officiated at a burial.
 
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 two hours for John Keeling to 84 years 
for Elizabeth Wild. The number of infants who did not live past their 
fifth birthday was very high at 57 or 39% of all burials.
 
Despite extensive research the identity of the deceased at St Peters 
has only been discovered in 103 (or 71% 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 St Peters continued from the previous decade 
and run sequentially from B064 and run to B178 at the end of 1839. The 
numbers were then re-initialized in 1839 to C001 and rn to C031 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 "SPC" 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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