Discover if your ancestor was buried in Victoria, Australia. Search through the records of five cemeteries in Victoria, and learn when and where your ancestor was buried.
Discover if your ancestor was buried in Victoria, Australia. Search through the records of five cemeteries in Victoria, and learn when and where your ancestor was buried.
This is a PDF image collection. The records come from five cemeteries in Victoria and span the years 1856 to 2005. Each cemetery’s records cover a slightly different year range. See below in our discover more about these records section to learn more about the cemeteries included in this collection.
The records in this collection can provide vital details about your ancestor’s death and next of kin. Details that you may discover are as follows:
For example, in researching Anne Coxhead, we can read her burial inscription and learn the names of her husband and daughter and their respective death dates: ‘In loving memory of Anne, the beloved wife of George Coxhead who fell asleep in Jesus 24th November 1899, aged 66 years. Happy Christian may we ever / Hold thy faith as firm and fast, / That when called from earth to sever, / We may reach thy home at last’. With the additional note that ‘the above George Coxhead who departed this life 16th July 1907, aged 82 years. Also their daughter Amy died 16th March 1928’
These records have been digitally scanned and converted to machine-encoded text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This process is not perfect and the machine may have misread characters, especially in personal names, which causes searches to fail.
The search feature uses direct search. It will only search for the exact words you write in the search field. For example, if you search for John Smith the results will give you pages with ‘John’ and ‘Smith.’
All search results will bring you to the page on which your search word has been found and not to an individual transcript. You can then read through the page to find your result.
If you are unable to find your relative on your first search you can try different name variations. A number of register books only use abbreviations for first name. For example, if your search is unsuccessful for William Smith, try W Smith
You can use the optional keywords field to search on any text you think may appear in the records, such as places, occupations, and years.