Over 233,000 new Australian burial records published

We have just published 233,160 burial records for Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney, Australia, on findmypast.co.uk

These records cover the period 1798 to 1999. This information has been made available online thanks to a mammoth project by the Society of Australian Genealogists, a member of the Federation of Family History Societies.

In 1981, SAG began a project to publish online the details from all the gravestones in Rookwood Cemetery. The scale of this task can be appreciated by the fact that the cemetery covers more than 777 acres and is widely regarded as the largest cemetery in the southern hemisphere.

Find your ancestors in these records by searching our parish burials search page. Select ‘New South Wales’ from the county list.

What will these records tell me?

When you search these records, in most cases you will be provided with the following information about your ancestors:

• First and last names
• Date of death
• Age at death
• Inscription on gravestone
• Plot
• Plot No
• Size
• Cemetery, place, county and country

A bonus feature of these records is that in many cases, your results will show you any associated records. This means that you can often find other family members and make family connections that may not otherwise have been possible.

In most cases, the associated records will comprise the following information: name, date of death, age at death and inscription on the gravestone.

Find out more about these Rookwood Cemetery records, including the history of the cemetery and the records.

Search the Rookwood Cemetery burial records today to find your ancestors.

5 Responses to “Over 233,000 new Australian burial records published”

1. ms mayar says:

   27 November 2010 at 1:34 pm

   would like to find the whereabouts of my g grandfather,who was said to have gone to Australia,but we hav`nt had any leads upto yet,so thought i`d give this a go,his name is Louis Mayar born 1870,thats all i know.

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2. Peter Burnard says:

   1 December 2010 at 1:37 pm

   I am not convinced that you have any Rookwood Cemetery record on your site, unless you have mixed them in with British material!!!!!!

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3. jessmoore says:

   2 December 2010 at 9:52 am

   Hi Peter - select ‘New South Wales’ from the county drop down list in our parish burials search to see the Rookwood records:

   http://www.findmypast.co.uk/parish-records-collection-search-start.action?redef=0&event=D

   Thanks!

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