LIST 68 - BURIALS - HOLY TRINITY KELSO

 
 
The first burial was performed at Holy Trinity on the 26th March 1826. During 
the remainder of the decade there were 110 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
 officiating 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 Holy Trinity Kelso in 1826 although the Rev John Espie Keane replaced him 
in February 1827. Even though a Roman Catholic, the Rev John Joseph Therry 
attended to the burials of six men hanged for murder in November 1830.
 
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.
 
The Rev Keane was one of few clergyman to make quite copious and interesting 
remarks in the comments column.
 
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 Holy Trinity run 
sequentially from 0001 to 0119 at the end of the decade. For some reason the 
numbers 72 through 79 were not used and 112 was used twice.
 
To locate an entry on this list; firstly an alphabetical search on the name 
would be made on List 52 using code "HTK" 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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