LIST 54 - BURIALS - ST JOHNS PARRAMATTA

 
 
There were 653 burials performed at St Johns during this decade. There 
were on average over five burials every month.
 
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.
 
Being the senior chaplain of the colony Rev Marsden no doubt had many 
responsibilities both in the colony as well as his missionary work 
in New Zealand, thus during the decade he was assisted by several other 
chaplains: Archdeacon Thomas Scott performed one burial in 1827; Thomas 
Hassall two in 1826, one in 1829 and three in 1830; John Keane one in 1826; 
James Norman twelve in 1827; Frederick Wilkinson eighteen in 1827; Charles 
Wilton six in 1827, eleven in 1828, seventeen in 1829 and twelve in 1830; Joseph 
Docker two in 1828; John Vincent 56 in 1828 and 19 in 1829; Willliam Yates 
28 in 1830.
 
From 1821 until 1826 there were no reference numbers printed on the register 
entries. The only information recorded in these first five years of the decade 
apart from date of burial and age were; status (free or prisoner) for most 
entries, ship of arrival for some convicts only (but not the year of 
arrival unfortunately) and occasional comments as to cause of death (drowned 
being the most frequent). A major omission  from the register is a recording 
of the minister who performed the ceremony as they are all listed as being 
"registered" by the parish clerk Joseph Kenyon.
 
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.
 
For the colonial born their year of birth and parents names are recorded in 
the ship of arrival column. Over one quarter of the burials relate to the 
colonial born, perhaps the presence of the Female Factory in Parramatta had 
something to do with this.
 
Mary Morgan is recorded as dying in 1826 aged 17 years and colonial born, 
yet no corresponding birth record has been found.
 
The reference number would direct the reader to the relevant entry in the 
original source document. The numbering system was re-initialized in 1826 with 
the introduction of the new printed registers. 
 
The reference numbers for St Johns Parramatta were re-initialized in 1821 and 
run from B001 to B209 at the end of 1825. In 1826 the numbers were again 
re-initialized to C001 and run until C443 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 the code "SJP" from which the date of burial 
would be retrieved, secondly using the appropriate date, the death would then 
be located on this list.

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