Search Australia Deaths & Burials, 1816-1980

Each record is a transcript of the original. He amount of information given varies but you can find out the following about your ancestor:

• Name
  
• Age
  
• Date of death
  
• Marital status
  
• Residence
  
• Place of death
  
• Cemetery

There are 102,926 records covering deaths and burials between 1816 and 1980. While this is not a fully comprehensive record of every death and burial across the whole of Australia between those years it does cover the following states:

• New South Wales
  
• South Australia
  
• Tasmania
  
• South Australia
  
  The first European settlers arrived in Australia in 1888 in 11 English ships carrying more than 1,000 convicts and military personnel. They first landed in Botany Bay on the south-east coast but it soon became apparent that the location wasn’t suitable for permanent settlement so, after a few days the ships moved down the coast to Port Jackson at Sydney Cove. These early arrivals were known as the First Fleeters.
  
  The Second Fleet arrived in 1790 and saved the First Fleeters from starvation. The first Irish transportees arrived with the Third Fleet in 1791. The first free settlers arrived in 1793. This rapidly expanding colony became known as New South Wales. Six colonies were eventually created. In 1901 they federated and became the Commonwealth of Australia.
  
  Reporting of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths was not mandatory until the latter half of the 19th century. Civil registration was introduced at different times in the various colonies and the huge areas involved meant that setting up a centralised system of record keeping was problematic. Records that predate the introduction of civil registration would have been kept on a parish by parish basis.