BURIALS - WESLEYAN-METHODIST SYDNEY

 
 
The first burial was performed at this chapel on 12th June 1836 by the 
Rev.John McKinney. There were 18 further burials performed during this 
decade.
 
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 first Minister was the Rev.John McKinney but he only stayed a few months 
and was followed by the Reverends James Watson, William Schofield and 
Edward Sweatman.
 
At the time of commencement of this chapel 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 or arrival, quality or profession and 
officiating minister. Unfortunately the ship of arrival and quality or 
profession were only occasionally recorded but the year and ship of arrival 
have been heavily researched outside the parish register.
 
For the colonial born their year of birth and parents names are recorded 
in the 'Ship of Arrival' column.
 
The chapel appears to have only used the pre 1839 government forms 
in recording its burials. As a consequence there are no 'Dates of Death' 
recorded.
 
Ten of the nineteen burials were for infants who did not live past their 
fifth birthday.
 
Despite extensive research the identity of the deceased at this chapel 
has only been discovered in nine cases during this decade.
 
The burial of William Neale is a duplicate of that recorded at St Lawrences 
Kirk Sydney.
 
There were two burials in the State Archives Pioneer Series file which 
have no entry on this chapel register. It is very likely that both result 
from typographical errors and relate to post 1840 burials.
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the relevant entry 
in the original source document. The reference numbers for the chapel 
run sequentially from 0001 to 0019 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 "SYDW" 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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