LIST 19 - DEATHS - NAME ORDER

 
 
There were 1,414 deaths recorded during this decade which is over 400 less than 
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
 comments
 
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 75% of the deceased have been found. 
 
There were 705 convicts or former convicts (50%), 130 were soldiers or 
former soldiers (9%), 47 were seamen (3%), 37 came free (3%) and 327 were infants 
or children (23%).
 
There  were 98 deaths recorded by Reginald Wright at Norfolk Island. Of 
this number 40 were recorded in the burial register kept by the Rev. Fulton 
when he visited the island from 1801 to 1806.
 
There were 84 deaths in Sydney collected from the Pioneer Register Project 
which have no corresponding burial record. Plus a further 13 deaths in Van 
Diemens Land for which there is no burial record.
 
There were 83 deaths recorded in the 1802 Muster, 18 of which have no 
corresponding burial record.
 
There were 51 hangings, with only 6 of these being recorded in church burial 
records.
 
There were thirty deaths reported in the Sydney Gazette, eight of which were 
not recorded in any church burial register.
 
Numerous deaths of members of the NSW Corps as recorded by Pamela Stratham in 
her book 'Colonial Regiment' which are not found in any of the church registers.
 
There was no chaplain at the Port Dalrymple settlement in Van Diemens Land 
until 1819 but Pamela Stratham has recorded the deaths of nine privates 
of the NSW Corps. The death of a settler's infant is also recorded there.
 
Four deaths are recorded at Port Phillip Bay in 1803 before the settlement 
was moved to Hobart but no burial record has been found. Interestingly all 
four refer to seaman and they were all drownings. 
 
 Table 19.1.
 
 SPS 702 50%
 SJP 324 23%
 NI 98 7%
 SDH 98 7%
 PR  84 6%
 EX 51 4%
 MO2 18 1%
 VDL 13 1%
 PD 10 
 SMW 7 
 SG 8 
 PPD 4 

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