Series S555 - REGISTERS - BURIALS AND GRANTS

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AU WA S555

Title

REGISTERS - BURIALS AND GRANTS

Date(s)

  • 1930-01-01 - (Creation)

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Name of creator

AU WA A301 - GERALDTON CEMETERY BOARD (1929-01-01 -)

Administrative history

A reserve was set aside for a public cemetery and a Board was appointed to control it in 1929. The Old Cemetery and Burial grounds were closed in 1930. The Geraldton Cemetery Board remained in an independent statutory body.

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Scope and content

Registers of burials show tablet number, name, address, age, date, location in cemetery, denomination, officiating minister, undertaker, permit number and remarks (such as returned soldier, Aboriginal, still-born etc).

In Volume 1, following page 119, extra pages have been inserted to continue entries from May 1963-1967. These inserted entries are repeated in Volume 2.

Folios 122-137 of Volume 1 document the register of grants from 1948-1958 showing name, grant number, location. (Under the Cemeteries Act 1897 and the Cemeteries Act 1986 the Board may grant to a person for a term of 25 years the right of burial in a specified area. The grant may be renewed.) Folios 120-121 are missing so the register begins with number 65.

There is a loose leaf photocopy of a plan of the cemetery at the front of Volume 1.

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1930-01-01 -

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1930-01-01 -

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Range Control Symbol = 1 -

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