BURIALS - ST PETERS RICHMOND

 
 
There were 207 burials performed at St Peters during this decade, 67 more 
than the previous decade. There were on average just under two burials 
each month. 
 
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. Joseph Docker continued as incumbent from the previous decade 
until 1833 when Rev.Heny Tarlton Stiles took over for the remainder of 
the decade. Occasional burials were performed during the decade by the 
Reverends: Robert Cartwright, Thomas Hassall, Robert Maunsell, Matthew Devenish 
Meares and William Yates.
 
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 youngest burials were for Thomas Easterbrook and Ann Henshaw both aged 
two days and the oldest were for former First Fleet Marine Joseph 
McAuldding, supposedly 98 years old but in fact closer to 81 and John 
Kincaid aged 95 which may well be correct if his age as a given to the 
1828 Census was correct. There were 57 burials (28%) for infants who did 
not live past their fifth birthday. 
 
Yvonne Browning's "St Peters Richmond, The Early People and Burials, 
1791 - 1855" was also most helpful in providing information.
 
The identity of the deceased at St Peters has been discovered in 180 (or 87% of) 
cases during this decade.
 
There were six burials in the State Archives Pioneer Series file which 
have no entry on this parish register. It is very likely that these result 
from typographical errors and relate 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 Peters continued from the previous decade 
run sequentially from 0196 to 0402 at the end of  the decade. Unlike 
most other parishes there was no re-initialization in 1839 with 
the introduction of the revised government forms.
 
To locate an entry on this list; firstly an alphabetical search on the 
name would be made on List 5 using code "SPR" 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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