LIST 15 - BURIALS - ST JOHNS PARRAMATTA

 
 
There were 562 burials performed at St Johns during this 'decade'. The first burial 
recorded was that of convict's infant James Magee on 31st January 1790 but in commencing 
this new parish Rev Hill duplicated the first three burials with St Phillips register. 
There were on average about one burial every week, but as can be seen from the table below 
there was a spike in the number of burials in 1792 after the arrival of the "death fleet" 
in 1791.
 
The information recorded for each burial is as follows:
 date
 family name
 Christian name
 age
 civil status at time of death
 year and ship of arrival
  comments
 reference number
 
The burials are listed in chronoligical order.
 
It should be pointed out that in the original register the only information recorded was; 
date, family name, Christian name and very occasinally a comment as to status or cause 
of death. Information in the register not recorded here is the name of the officiating 
minister.
 
There were no burials recorded between April 1798 and December 1800 and there is a gap 
of fourteen numbers (562-575) between these two dates. Whether this means there are 
fourteen missing burials is uncertain at this time. 
 
In 87 (15%) cases the ship of arrival or names of parents are unknown. One sailor is 
recorded as arriving on board the 'Experiment' but there was no ship of that name during 
the period under investigation.
 
There were 490 (87%) convicts or former convicts, 6 (1%) were soldiers or former soldiers, 
10 (2%) came free and 56 (10%) were infants or children.
 
The age at death has been able to be calculated in 97 (17%) cases.
 
The register interestingly records the cause of death in 13 cases.
 
The reference numbers are generally perfectly sequential with only a couple of occasions 
where they are out of order for some reason. No. 528 in 1796 was omitted.
 
There were two burials which were duplicated for some reason.
 
To locate an entry on this list; firstly an alphabetical search on the name would be made 
on List 13 from which the date of death would be retrieved, secondly using the appropriate 
date, the burial would then be located on this list.

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