Tasmania Cemeteries

Cemeteries
Central Coast Cemetery/grave information

Cressy Road Cemetery, Longford BillionGraves

Devonport City Council: Lawn Cemetery Search

Launceston City Council Cemetery and Crematorium

Cornelian Bay, Kingston Regional, East Risdon and Cambridge Cemetery records search

Tazmania

 * Tasmania Cemeteries Index
 * Gravesites of Tasmania Index
 * Gravestones from Cemeteries of Tasmania Index
 * Tasmania Burial Grounds Index

Australia

 * 1802-2005 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1080-2007 - Australia Cemetery Index, 1808-2007, ($), index, incomplete.
 * Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current, ($), index, incomplete.
 * Australia, Imperial Force Burials At Gallipoli, 1915, ($), index.
 * Australian Cemeteries, indexes.
 * Australian Cemeteries Index
 * Commonwealth War Graves Commission
 * Australia BillionGraves
 * Australia Billion Graves Cemetery Index, ($), index.
 * Office of Australian War Graves
 * All Australia Memorial, ($), index.
 * Commonwealth War Graves Commission
 * Cemetery Records Australia

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.