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From: Chris Elmore <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-QLD-BRISBANE] Cremation in BRISBANE
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 22:00:44 +0100
In-Reply-To: <66E503102ACD4AA590D71DFC96928386@chapelhill.homeip.net>


Kerry
Thank you for your reply.
Accepted practice was a poor choice of words. Here in the UK cremation was
practically unheard of until a specific act of parliament in about 1902. My
query was to establish if Australia was on a similar time line.
I am looking in to a family legend regarding an unidentified aunt who, in
the mid 1920's, allegedly visited the family in England from abroad carrying
her husbands ashes. Currently, I am aware of only Queensland overseas
relatives
I had hoped to search a listing for family names.
However, from your reply it sounds as if the 1920's was too early for the
aunt to have been a Queenslander.
Thank you again for your help.
Best regards
Chris


On 20/05/2009 21:39, "Kerry Raymond" <> wrote:

> Not sure exactly what you mean by "accepted practice" but as far as I know
> the first crematorium in Brisbane was Mt Thompson which commenced operation
> in 1934 (from memory). It was the only one until about the early 1970s when
> Albany Creek Crematorium started.
>
> Just as cemeteries have to maintain a burial register, so too crematoriums
> are required to keep records of cremations. But neither are held
> "centrally". It is the death itself that is recorded by the
> Registrar-General, although the details of burial/cremation should appear on
> the death certificate.
>
> While Brisbane City Council operated most (although not all) cemeteries
> within its boundaries, crematoriums were generally privately operated. It is
> only quite recently (this last decade?) that the council has established its
> own crematoriums.
>
> Many of the private operators of crematoriums haven't been very cooperative
> with the family history community in making their registers accessible for
> indexing. There are indexes for the first 20-30 years of cremations at Mt
> Thompson but they are not online but family history societies may hold them
> as do some individuals on mailing lists.
>
> As the ashes from some cremations are buried in graves in cemeteries
> (usually with buried family members), you do find some evidence of
> cremations in burial registers (as the interment of ashes has to be recorded
> in the burial register). Generally if the date of burial in the Brisbane
> City Council database is some time after the known date of death, consider
> the possibility of a burial of ashes.
>
> For family history, the problem with cremation in Brisbane is twofold -- the
> lack of indexes and the fact that many families simply take the ashes home
> in an urn or scatter them, leaving no plaque for us to find. Burials tend to
> be easier to track down through burial registers and monumental
> inscriptions.
>
> Kerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, 21 May 2009 2:15 AM
> To: Queensland Queensland
> Subject: [AUS-QLD-BRISBANE] Cremation in BRISBANE
>
> Hi Listers
> Does anyone know when cremation became accepted practice in Queensland and
> whether there are central records kept of such cremations.
> As ever your advice would be very much appreciated.
> Best regards
> Chris
> England
> Researching MORRIS of Boulton Derby and of Aspley Nottingham and Brisbane
>
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