LIST 74 - BURIALS - ST JOHNS MORETON BAY

 
 
The first burial was recorded for St Johns Moreton Bay was on the 5th November 
1824. There were another 44 burials performed during the remainder of the 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
               comments
               officiating minister
               reference number
 
The burials are listed in chronological order.
 
The settlement at Moreton Bay was founded by Lt. Henry Miller  of the 40th 
Regiment in September 1824 as a place of secondary exile for  hardened  criminals 
and recidivist prisoners. There  was  no minister  assigned to the settlement 
for many years, thus  it  is not  recorded whom the minister or ministers were  
who  performed the  earliest  burials  but  the Rev  John  Vincent  visited  the 
settlement  in 1829 and performed 29 burials and as we have  seen above six 
baptisms but no marriages (at least none that have been recorded).
 
In  the original register the standard information recorded  was; burial  date,  
family name and Christian name  of  the  deceased, age,  place  of  abode,  civil  
status,  quality  or   profession (occasionally) and the officiating minister. 
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  reference  number would direct the reader  to  the  relevant entry in the 
original source document. The reference numbers  for St  Johns run sequentially 
from 0165 to 0180 covering the  period from  November 1824 to May 1827 , for 
some reason  these  sixteen burials  were  recorded in St Phillips Sydney  register  
in  July 1827. Then in 1829 were re-initialized to 0001 until 0029 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 52 using code "SJB" 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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