Sydney, Australia, Cemetery Headstone Transcriptions, 1837-2003

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Sydney, Australia, Cemetery Headstone Transcriptions, 1837-2003 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.

Original data: Sydney Metropolitan Cemetery Records. Society of Australian Genealogists, Sydney, Australia.

About Sydney, Australia, Cemetery Headstone Transcriptions, 1837-2003

About This Collection

This database consists of an index to over 368,000 headstone transcriptions for burials in Rookwood, Waverley, South Head, and Macquarie Park cemeteries in Sydney, Australia. Information for each burial may include:

Name
Birth Date
Death Date
Burial Location (Cemetery, Section, Row)
Denomination
Inscription
Date of contract in which the headstone was provided

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