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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