LIST 29 - DEATHS - ALPHABETICAL ORDER

 
 
There were 2,830 deaths recorded during this decade which is almost 
exactly double the previous decade.
 
The information recorded for each death is as follows:
 date
 church
  family name
 Christian name
 age
 civil status at time of death
 year and ship of arrival
 
The deaths are listed in alphabetical order on the name of the 
deceased. 
 
For the colonial born their year of birth and parents names are 
recorded in the ship of arrival column.
 
For those deaths for which there is no corresponding burial 
occasionally comments are recorded which would otherwise be found in 
the burial register.
 
The arrival status of 86% of the deceased have been found. There were 
1667 convicts or former convicts (59%), 157 were soldiers or former 
soldiers (6%), 11 were seamen (1%), 107 came free (4%) and 674 were 
infants or children or adolescents or colonial born adults(24%). 
Finally there were 147 burials where the deceased was described 
as "free" but it is uncertain whether this means came free, born 
free or free by servitude (5%).
 
There were 102 deaths collected from the Pioneer Register Project and 
other miscellaneous sources which have no corresponding burial 
record. Plus a further two deaths on Norfolk Island.
 
There were 24 hangings, with only ten of these being recorded in 
church burial records.
 
There was one death reported in the Sydney Gazette for convict 
compositor William Bond which was not recorded in any church burial 
register.
 
 Table 29.1.
 
 SPS 1,405 50%
 SJP 401 14%
 SDH 343 12%
 SMW  335 12%
 SLL 115 4%
 PR 102 4%
 SPR 57 2%
 CCC 29 1%
 SJL 26 1%
 EX 14 
 NI 2 
 SG 1

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