LIST 56 - BURIALS - ST LUKES LIVERPOOL

 
 
There  were  378  burials performed at St  Lukes during  this decade. There were 
on average around three burials each month. 
 
The information recorded for each burial is as follows:
               burial date
               death date
               Christian name
               family name
               age
               abode
               civil status at time of death
               year and ship of arrival
               comments
               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 Robert Cartwright continued as the resident minister  for the whole of 
this decade. 
 
There was no recorded clergyman in the burial register until July 1823 although 
it can be assumed to have been the Rev  Cartwright. Thereafter  he was recorded 
as performing all burials  until  the end  of  the  decade, with the exception 
of  two  Roman  Catholic burials in 1823 and 1830.
 
Until  July 1823 the only additional information recorded in  the burial register 
apart from name, date and place of death and  age was  the cause of death, as 
interesting as this  information  is! From  July  1823  until the end of 1825  
Rev  Cartwright  started recording status (free or prisoner) at time of death 
and ship  of arrival for many entries. Then from January 1824 until the end of 
1825 he started recording the date of death as well.
 
With  the  arrival of the new pre-printed registers  in  1826  he stopped  recording 
the dates of death, ship of arrival   and  the causes  of death but did include 
the occupation of the  deceased. 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 burial of William Gray in April 1824 is recorded for St Lukes in  the  Kerrison 
James Index but does not appear in  the  parish register of burials.
 
The burial of Eliza Hatfield in April 1823 is a duplicate of  the entry in Christ 
Church Newcastle.
 
The  reference  number would direct the reader  to  the  relevant entry  in the 
original source document. The numbering system  was re-initialized   in  June  
1821  and  again  in  1826  with   the introduction of the new printed registers. 
 
The  reference numbers for St Lukes continued from  the  previous decade and 
run sequentially from 0116 to 0124, then from B001  to B152 and finally from 
C001 to C09 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 "SLL" 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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