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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Death and Dying

Subject
Death and dying in nineteenth century Sydney
Death and dying in twentieth century Sydney
Devonshire Street Cemetery
First State funeral
Funeral trains
The Life and Death of Joe Lynch
Tram deaths
Next of Kin Memorial Plaque
When It Comes
Mortuary railway station
Australian School of Embalming
Cremation Society of New South Wales
Funeral Reform Association of NSW
Funeral and Allied Industries Union
NSW Cremation Company
New South Wales Cremation Society
Registrar-General's Office
Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
Sydney Church of England Cemetery Company
Wood Coffill and Company
Beaver, William
Harrison, Anne
Hartford Rivers, G
Howard, Robert Rice
Kinsela, Charles
Camperdown Cemetery
Devonshire Street Cemetery
Old Burial Ground
Crypt of St Mary's Cathedral
Grave of Père Receveur
Rickards Memorial
Wentworth Mausoleum
'Rookwood Cemetery Departs From Mortuary Platform', indicator board at Powerhouse Museum 17 April 2015
A Grave and Burning Question - Dr Creed's NSW Cremation Bill 1886
AG Foster transcribing the details of the vault where David Ramsay and Sarah Ann Lord were interred on the Dobroyd estate, c1910
After a prayer service over the grave of Father Serapheim Phocas, Waverley Cemetery, 2010
Are You Afraid To Die? Religious tract found during archaeological dig at Hyde Park Barracks
Burial at sea from HMAS Sydney 1914
Burning a Corpse c1798
Camperdown cemetery 'Sacred to the memory of Emily Alice Elliott' c1854
Capture and death of bushranger Ben Hall 1865
Cemetery at Camperdown, March 4th 1854
Commemorative plaque to Kate Rickards on the Rickards Memorial in Waverley Cemetery 2012
Death notice for Te Atahoe in Sydney Gazette, 3 March 1803, p2
Description of the execution of Thomas Barrett in Arthur Bowes Smyth's journal, 27 February 1788
Description of the trial and execution of Thomas Barrett in Arthur Bowes Smyth's journal, February 1788
Detail of a plan of Necropolis at Haslem's Creek shewing the appropriations for the various religious denominations 1868
Devonshire Street cemetery prior to demolition, showing the headstone of Joseph Leburn c1900
First page of letter from City Health Officer Henry Graham to the City of Sydney Council concerning Devonshire Street Cemetery, 15 January 1860
Funeral of Violet McKenzie, Greenwich May 1982
Funeral procession for Herr Peter F Kempermann, Consul-General for Germany, passing along West Street, North Sydney 7 November 1900
Government and General Orders concerning the closure of the Old Burial Ground and the opening of Devonshire Street Cemetery 22 January 1820
Government and General Orders concerning the hour of internment in the new burial ground 14 October 1820
Grave of Katherine Plessos Crummer, Waverley Cemetery 2010
Grave of William H Bennett and Elizabeth Agnes Miller in St Johns churchyard, Parramatta 2015
Headstone of Cora Gooseberry in Devonshire Street Cemetery c1901
Headstone of Hugh McDonald, Devonshire Street Cemetery c1900
Headstone of artist JW Lewin in Devonshire Street Cemetery before its resumption in 1901
Headstones in Devonshire Street Cemetery, including those of of Henry Harding, John Cadman, William Lovegrove and Sarah Perry c1901
Jewish funeral cortege passing Sydney University and travelling west on Parramatta Road c1930
Life's Tragedy: announcement in Smith's Weekly of Joe Lynch's death, 1927
Melancholy Accident - report of the drowning of Willam and Mary Cavendish during regatta on Anniversary Day 26 January 1839
Memorial card on the death of Cardinal Patrick Francis Cardinal Moran, Archbishop of Sydney 1911
Memorial to Sydney Rickards, the young son of Harry and Kate Rickards in Waverley Cemetery 2012
Miles Franklin's final entry in her diary, 14 September 1954
Monument in memory of NC Bochsa, erected by Anna Bishop over his grave in Camperdown Cemetery, 1856
Mortuary Station, Redfern 1871
Mrs P Kirby and Sons, undertakers April 1898
Newspaper clipping reporting death of Ellen Anderson May 16 1931
Newspaper clipping reporting death of Ellen Anderson May 22 1931
Next of kin plaque: Private J A Newcomb, 18 Battalion, AIF c1920
No1 Mortuary Railway station, Rookwood Cemetery - funeral train in station c1870
Public funeral to Mr Wentworth - scene in George Street 6 May 1873
Rickards Memorial in Waverley Cemetery 2012
Rickards Memorial in Waverley Cemetery 2012
Segments of carved trees which were associated with burials on the Greendale Estate, Vermont near Narellan
The Bridge Street Burglars: Graphic Account of the Execution in 'The Bird O'Freedom', 2 June 1894
The Sydney Necropolis - Haslem's Creek 1876
The grave of Abbe le Receveur, Botany Bay 30 November 1842
To the Editor of the Australian, on the decease of persons dying in public hospitals, December 1824
Transcription of the headstones of John Lewin and TS Amos in Row 4 at Devonshire Street Cemetery from AG Foster's records c1900
Tree trunk bearing epitaph of Receveur, now in Louvre photographed October 1919
Where Pioneers sleep: Tombstone tales in St John's Churchyard, Parramatta 1923
Yemmurrvonyea Kebbarah, a Native of New South Wales, died May 18th 1794. supposed to be aged 19 Years, at the house of Mr. Edward Kent, Eltham Parish Register
Death at the Gasworks, from These Walls Have Ears: My Place 2013
George Bates recalls the day when he buried Henry Lawson's cattle dog in North Sydney c1929, interviewed 1986