LIST 63 - BURIALS - ST THOMAS PORT MACQUARIE

 
 
The first burial was performed at St Thomas in 1824. During the remainder of 
the decade there were 80 burials performed.
 
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
 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 Thomas Hassall was appointed as the first chaplain to the new parish 
of St Thomas Port Macquarie in 1824 where he stayed until December 1827 when 
the Rev John Cross took over in February 1828. 
 
Pre 1826 the information recorded for each burial included; name, date of burial, 
date of death, age, convict or free. If still a convict the name of ship of 
arrival was recorded. If free and in the military, the regiment and rank were 
often recorded. 
 
From 1826 the information to be recorded on the new pre-printed forms for each 
burial included; reference number, date of burial, Christian name of the 
deceased, family name of the deceased, age, abode, quality or profession and 
officiating minister. The year and ship of arrival have been heavily 
researched outside the parish register.
 
Unfortunately the first five entries in the register only record the year of 
death (1824) and nothing else. There were no burials recorded for the year 1827.
 
Five headstones in the cemetery date from 1823, where the burials are recorded 
is unknown.
 
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. Unlike most other parishes the numbering system was 
re-initialized in 1828 rather than in 1826 with introduction of the new 
pre-printed registers.
 
The reference numbers for St Thomas run sequentially from 0001 to 0060 then from 
B001 to B021 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 "STPM" 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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