Queensland Cemeteries

Queensland cemetery records are a typical mixture of burial records based on records created by the cemetery trustees at the time of burial and monumental inscriptions transcribed by volunteers in recent years.

Cemetery Record Collections, Queensland

 * Australian Cemeteries: Queensland
 * Queensland Burials & Memorials at Find MyPast, Index ($)
 * Queensland Funeral Records Index ($)
 * 1802-1990 - Index- How to Use this Collection
 * Central Queensland Cemetery Indexes
 * South-East Queensland cemeteries headstone photo collection
 * Queensland Cemeteries A-C
 * Queensland Cemeteries D-Z
 * Interment.net: Queensland Cemetery Records The cemeteries are arranged by shire, city or town. Please note that not all contributions to Interment.net are complete listings, especially for the larger cemeteries.
 * Remote Graves List. Family History Association of North Queensland compiled by John Sweet.

Cemetery Record Collections, All Australia

 * Australian Cemeteries - searchable database currently includes over 100+ Queensland Cemeteries including digital images of many headstones.
 * Australia Billion Graves Cemetery Index at FindMyPast, ($), index.
 * All Australia Memorial at FindMyPast, ($), index.
 * Cemetery Records Australia, by Graham Jaunay
 * Australian Cemeteries, indexes.
 * Commonwealth War Graves Commission
 * 1808-2007 - Australia Cemetery Index, 1808-2007 at Ancestry, Index ($)
 * 1802-2005 - at FamilySearch — index and images- How to Use this Collection
 * 1808-2007 - Australia Cemetery Index, 1808-2007 at Ancestry, ($), index, incomplete.
 * 1800-Current - Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current at Ancestry, ($), index, incomplete.
 * 1915 - Australia, Imperial Force Burials At Gallipoli, 1915 at Ancestry, ($), index.

Individual Cemeteries

 * 1841-1878 - Queensland, Paddington Cemeteries Exhumations and Reinterments 1841-1878 Index ($)
 * Toowong, Queensland Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions Index ($)
 * 1929-1987 - Albany Creek Columbarium, Queensland Australia 1929-1927 Index ($)
 * Anglican Church Of Australia - Parish Of Sherwood (Brisbane) - Cemetery and Columbarium Wall Monumental Inscriptions at FindMyPast - index ($)
 * Brisbane, Botanic Gardens Mount Coot-tha, memorial (single photo)
 * Bundaberg Regional Cemeteries list, map of cemetery, name data.
 * Darling Downs and beyond. SE Queensland and Northern NewSouth Wales. Each cemetery has a surname index.
 * Moggill (Historic) cemetery, Brisbane
 * Nudgee (suburb of Brisbane)
 * Toowong Cemetery, Toowong BillionGraves, Includes photos and index of inscriptions and person data.
 * Roma General Cemetery

Record Types
Cemetery records are especially helpful for identifying ancestors who were not recorded in other records, such as children who died young or women. They may also give clues to finding more information.

Cemetery Records
Cemetery records often give more information than church burial records and may include: They may also provide:
 * the deceased’s name,
 * age,
 * date of death or burial,
 * birth year or date of birth, and
 * sometimes marriage information.
 * clues about an ancestor’s military service,
 * religion,
 * occupation,
 * place of residence at time of death, or
 * membership in an organization.

Burial Records
Burial records and plot books (cemetery plans) kept by cemetery officials are especially valuable when trying to find an ancestor who could not afford a gravestone or monument. The records and books are usually held in the cemetery’s administration office or by the local council or church.

Sexton’s records
Also known as register books, these records list the deceased’s name, date of death or burial, and plot number or description.

Plot Books and Cemetery Plans
These give a diagrammatic description of a cemetery. Each grave is shown by number with the name of the person buried there. These records may have been transcribed and listed in alphabetical order. By examining the original plot book or cemetery plan, rather than relying on alphabetized transcripts, you may find close relatives buried in adjoining plots.

Lone Graves
Because of the vast distances between settlements, many people who died en route to other localities were buried where they died. These types of burials are known as lone graves. Many of these lone graves have been located, and the known information has been transcribed and collected.

Station Burials
Many burials were on stations (ranches), which are small settlements on large tracts of grazing land. These burials were generally limited to family members or workers at the station. Station burials were on private ground, and seldom was burial information transcribed, except in a published family or local history.