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Burial Registers

Queensland State Archives have published digital versions of the Burial Registers of the Brisbane General Cemetery (later Toowong Cemetery).

Toowong Cemetery Burial Register Queensland State Archives, Item ID ITM867348

The Burial Registers contain details including:

  • Register number of burial (Grave Marker number)
  • Date of burial
  • Name of the deceased
  • Sex
  • Adult or Child (Age)
  • Trade or Calling of the deceased
  • Position of grave in the cemetery
  • Number of compartment (Portion)
  • Number of section (Section)
  • Number of grave in such section (Grave)
  • Undertaker's name
  • Name of denomination to which deceased was reported to belonged
  • Name of Minister who officated at the burial
  • Names of two witnesses to the burial
  • Observations

Burial dates overlap across some Burial Registers.

Burials 3/1/1871 - 30/12/1891

Queensland State Archives, Item ID ITM867348

Burials 17/11/1884 - 8/4/1903

Queensland State Archives, Item ID ITM867349. The archive record states an end date of 10/12/1886 which is the date on the last page but later dates appear on earlier pages.

Burials 1/1/1892 - 31/12/1907

Queensland State Archives, Item ID ITM867350

Burials 1/1/1908 - 31/12/1919

Queensland State Archives, Item ID ITM867351

Burials 2/1/1920 - 31/12/1928

Queensland State Archives, Item ID ITM867352

Burials 2/1/1929 - 7/8/1937

Queensland State Archives, Item ID ITM867353

Burials 7/8/1937 - 21/8/1940

Queensland State Archives, Item ID ITM867354

Burials 20/5/1936 - 5/6/1957

Queensland State Archives, Item ID ITM867355

  • Burial register - Toowong Cemetery Trust (partly copied into item 6) - Not digitised.

Burials 28/7/1954 - 3/1/1989

Queensland State Archives, Item ID ITM867367

  • Burial register - Toowong Cemetery, Volume 12 [microfilm] - Not digitised.