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WorldVitalRecords.com - Anglican Cemeteries and Columbaria Brisbane Volume 3 $

Records inscriptions from five of Brisbane's Anglican cemeteries, columbaria and memorial gardens - Coorparoo (St Stephens), Grovely (St Matthews), Kenmore (Church of the Holy Spirit), Middle Park (St Catherines) and Red Hill (St Barnabas). Headstones and plaques listed record information on burials from 1868 to 2002. This publication records the entire inscription for each headstone and plaque. Often cemetery publications record just names and dates but the remainder of the inscription may provide valuable indications of relationships, occupation, hobby, cause of death - even the verse can be useful. Any badges or photographs on the memorial have been noted.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Anglican Church of Australia - Parish of Sherwood (Brisbane) - Cemetery and Columbarium Wall Monumental Inscriptions $

A complete transcript and index of the monumental inscriptions of the Sherwood Anglican Parish Cemetery and Columbarium Wall, Sherwood, Brisbane. Compiled in 1995.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Beenleigh Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions $

Beenleigh Cemetery is located in River Hills Road, Beenleigh (Queensland) and was established in 1872. It covers burials from establishment to the current time (there is one inscription records a death date of 1867). The initial transcript of Beenleigh Cemetery was made between October and December 2000 with final checking done in April 2001.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Bethania Lutheran Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions $

Bethania Lutheran Cemetery is located in the grounds of the Lutheran church at Church Road, Bethania in the Gold Coast City area. It is the oldest Lutheran Church in Queensland - a plaque on the church commemorates the arrival of Lutheran pioneers in the area in 1864. A grave at the front of the church records the deaths in 1864 of three of the early pioneers, Auguste Tesch, Herman Kuter and Wm. R. Rehfeldt. This transcript was made in December 1995.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Brookfield Cemetery (Brisbane) Monumental Inscriptions $

Brookfield Cemetery is located on the corner of Brookfield and Gold Creek Roads, Brookfield in Brisbane. It opened in 1882 and is the burial place of many of the pioneering families in the area. The earliest death recorded on the headstones is that of Eliza, beloved wife of Thomas Logan who died in 1883 - not long after the cemetery was opened. This transcription was completed in November 1995.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Bulimba Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions $

Bulimba Cemetery, also known as Balmoral or Morningside Cemetery, is located at the junction of Wynnum and Bennetts Roads in Morningside, a suburb of Brisbane. Though it officially opened in 1875, the first burial was in 1874 of George Wilson Pointon, a six year old boy who drowned in Norman Creek on 20th June that year. In the following years, many people from different nationalities and walks of life have been laid to rest in the grounds. Time and vandalism have taken their toll and remain a constant threat to the history recorded on the headstones. In an effort to preserve this history, members of the Queensland Family History Society first recorded the inscriptions at Bulimba Cemetery in the early 1980s. An update of the transcript was done late in 1993 to record any additional inscriptions and to note those headstones which had been subject to vandalism.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Cemetery Burials and Memorial Inscriptions For Victoria 1835-1997 $

This index, which comprises over 185,000 records, is built from transcriptions of cemetery memorials and burial registers. It covers 197 cemeteries in Victoria, plus a few in other Australian states. It details the name and title of the deceased, the Australian state or territory, whether the event was a death or burial, the year of the event, and the cemetery. Data provided by The Genealogical Society of Victoria. Transcriptions: Copyright - The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Cleveland Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions $

Cleveland Cemetery is located in the block bounded by Russell Street (frontage), Wellington Street, Coburg Street West and Clarke Street in Cleveland, near Brisbane. Some headstones remain standing recording deaths in the 1860s and 1870s. This transcript was made in 1997/98.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Cooloola Coast Cemetery (Queensland) Monumental Inscriptions $

Cooloola Coast Cemetery is located on Rainbow Beach Road, Cooloola Cove - take the Tin Can Bay Road from Gympie then the fork to Rainbow Beach. Established about 1987, it has Monumental, Lawn and Columbarium sections. Just over 100 headstones/plaques are included in this transcription which was completed in October 2004.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Eagleby Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions $

Eagleby Cemetery is located in Herse's Street, off Fryars Road, Eagleby in the Gold Coast City area of Queensland. A monument commemorates the arrival and settlement of the Zornig family at Eagleby in November 1865. Several headstones remain standing recording deaths in the 1880s - the earliest being 1883. This transcript was made in February 1996.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Goomeri Cemetery Index $

Goomeri is a small town in the South Burnett region of Queensland - 235 kilometres from Brisbane. The headstones in the cemetery cover burials from 1913 with the latest in this index being in 2008 when the transcription was done.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Moggill Cemetery (Brisbane) Monumental Inscriptions $

Moggill Cemetery is located on Moggill Road, Bellbowrie in Brisbane - a track leads from the road through the bush to the cemetery. It opened in 1865 and is now classified as an Historic Cemetery - a stone cairn commemorates pioneer families of Moggill. This transcription was completed in November 1995.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Mt Cotton Cemeteries Monumental Inscriptions $

Mt Cotton, originally settled by German pioneering families, is in the Logan City area, Queensland, south of Brisbane. Mt Cotton (Cornubia) Cemetery is located at the corner of Mt Cotton and Wuduru Roads, Cornubia. The earliest known burial is that of Detlef Holtorf who had been born at Rostorf in 1846 and died at Mt Cotton in 1881. More recently, a columbarium has been erected at Mt Cotton Lutheran (St Paul's). A plaque on the church commemorates the settlers who arrived in the early 1870s and the erection of the first St Paul's Lutheran Church in 1875. The earliest plaque records the death of Edward Albert Benfer who died in 1932 aged 1 day. These transcripts were made in December 1995.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Mundubbera Cemetery Index $

Mundubbera is a town in the Wide Bay - Burnett region of Queensland, 405 kilometres from Brisbane. The headstones in the cemetery cover burials from 1911 with the latest in this index being in 2008 when the transcription was done.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Pimpama Island Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions $

Located in Behm's Road, Norwell west of Jacob's Well in the north Gold Coast area of Queensland. The earliest death recorded on a headstone is that of Elizabeth Dorothea Kleinschmidt in 1881. This transcript was made in December 1995.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Pine Rivers District Cemeteries - Bunya, Dayboro, Lawnton, Samford & Samsonvale $

Bunya Cemetery (established 1873) - Bunya Road, Bunya; Dayboro Cemetery - McKenzie Street, Dayboro; Lawnton Cemetery - Norfolk Avenue, Lawnton; Samford Cemetery - School Road, Samford Village and Samsonvale Cemetery - Golds Scrub Lane, Samsonvale. The earliest inscription relates to the death in 1866 of John Charles Richards, infant son of Thomas and Elizabeth Richards - in Samford Cemetery. Bunya Cemetery is no longer in use but Dayboro, Lawnton, Samford and Samsonvale Cemeteries all have recent burials. Transcription completed June 2002.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Ravenswood Cemetery Headstones Index $

Ravenswood, located about 120 kilometres south-west of Townsville, was founded in 1868 following the discovery of gold and was an extremely prosperous gold mining centre with a population of up to 5000. The Hotels and Publicans Index published by QFHS shows more than 50 hotels in the 1870s. Today it is almost a ghost-town though it still has many reminders of the past - mullock heaps, tall chimneys, discarded machinery and the cemetery. Headstones remaining in the cemetery in November 2003 record details of former residents from 1872 to recent times, with 2001 the date of the most recent burial recorded on the monumental inscriptions.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Redland Bay Cemeteries Monumental Inscriptions $

There are two cemeteries at Redland Bay - the older, which was designated as a cemetery in 1890, is at Serpentine Road and was transcribed December 1996. Few headstones remain - the earliest death recorded is in 1896 for J. S. The main cemetery, gazetted in 1909, is located at Gordon Road, Redland Bay. The transcription of headstones in January 1997 indicates that there are some inscriptions pre-dating the gazettal of the cemetery.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Rookwood Cemetery $

Where no plot number is shown, refer to the record for the first listed associated person where these details will be found. Rookwood Cemetery is vast, and it is essential that researchers have denomination, section, row and plot numbers on hand before visiting the cemetery. The Society of Australian Genealogists has a number of useful section maps available on its website which will help to determine the location of a gravesite. Rookwood Cemetery History: Originally known as Haslem's Creek Cemetery and officially called the Necropolis, Rookwood Cemetery now stands in the centre of suburban Sydney on more than 777 acres. Over one million burials are believed to have taken place since it was opened in 1867, making it widely regarded as the largest cemetery in the southern hemisphere.

WorldVitalRecords.com - South Brisbane Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions $

South Brisbane Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions indexes all monumental inscriptions in South Brisbane Cemetery, Dutton Park, as transcribed during the 1980s by members of the Queensland Family History Society, with some more recent inscriptions added while the current index was in preparation. South Brisbane Cemetery is located at Dutton Park, Brisbane and is under the authority of the Brisbane City Council. It was established as a general cemetery in 1866 but it was not until 1 August 1870 that the first burial took place - that of Mrs Jane Hocking. Memorials range from those of prominent early residents to those of prisoners from nearby Boggo Road Gaol, including that of bushranger Patrick Kenniff who was hanged in 1903. The cemetery was closed to new burials in 1961-2 though burials continued in family plots and a small number of new plots were released in 1998-9. In general the Portion of the monument is recorded, however, in some instances Portions have been grouped together as it is not clearly defined where the boundaries lie: Portions 2C and 2D; Portions 2A and 2F; Portions 4B and 4C; Portions 7A and 7C, Portions 7B and 7D; Portions 8A, 8B and 8C; Portions 10C and 10D. Foreign inscriptions have been managed as follows. German - the index contains the name, dates and some of the information. French - the index contains the name and dates. Greek - the index contains the name and dates. Cyrillic inscriptions (includes Russian, Serbian, Croatian, Yugoslavian) - the index contains the name and dates