Hi John, Thanks for your interest & your reply. The Aust Death Index lists Harriet White’s death place as Castlereagh which some descendants have read as Castlereagh Street, Sydney. As Harriet lived on a few different farms west of Sydney - around Parramatta, Windsor etc, I assumed the Death Index referred to the district rather than the street. I could be wrong & would be glad to be corrected if anyone knows better. Cheers, Coral Saunders

Hi Coral It seems to me that you have not checked the original burial record for Harriet as looking at the record will probably solve where she was buried. As mentioned by others, she died well before civil registration started in 1856. Therefore the record available will be a church burial register. That means you should be able to identify which Church minister, and therefore which church parish, performed the burial. And its likely she would have been buried in the cemetery associated with that church and parish. The NSW BDM Index entry reads. V18225426 2B/1822 HANSON HARRIOT AGE 32 V1822103 155/1822 HANSON HARRIOT AGE 32 You can use the reference to check out the burial register copied onto microfilm which is part of the NSW Archives Kit. Or you can buy the "certificate" from NSW BDM Registry. You should look at both references. There being two references does not mean she was buried twice. Perhaps you might find it useful to read about the early church registers by going to http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/familyHistory/historyofRegistrysRec.htm cheers Grahame On 14/07/2013, at 2:19 PM, Coral Saunders wrote: > Hi John, Thanks for your interest & your reply. The Aust Death Index lists Harriet White’s death place as Castlereagh which some descendants have read as Castlereagh Street, Sydney. As Harriet lived on a few different farms west of Sydney - around Parramatta, Windsor etc, I assumed the Death Index referred to the district rather than the street. I could be wrong & would be glad to be corrected if anyone knows better. > > Cheers, Coral Saunders >

  Hello, She'd have been buried (unless Catholic - who buried their own at McCarthy's farm [named "Cranebrook"]) by the Reverend Henry Fulton. Most protestants there were so buried, pre 1838 anyway. Fulton himself was an "Irish Rebel" too. But he was such a refined man, with hands showing little sign of manual work, that the Sydney authorities considered it would have been highly unseemly to put such a gentlemen on the road gangs, or anywhere else like that. Instead, and as there was need of more Anglican chaplains, he was made the parson of Castlereagh and installed into a very fine and expensive government-funded parsonage there. I am still looking for any remains of his parsonage, and have already spent much time at that. Fulton himself is buried in the Castlereagh cemetery too, right in the rear back corner. Most of the Castlereagh church register does survive I understand (maybe a few pages are missing?) although I have never seen it myself. The original church itself burned down. Cheers, John  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: aus-pt-jackson-convicts@rootsweb.com To: Cc: Sent:Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16:55:20 +1000 Subject:Re: [PJ] Harriet White - Castlereagh Hi Coral It seems to me that you have not checked the original burial record for Harriet as looking at the record will probably solve where she was buried. As mentioned by others, she died well before civil registration started in 1856. Therefore the record available will be a church burial register. That means you should be able to identify which Church minister, and therefore which church parish, performed the burial. And its likely she would have been buried in the cemetery associated with that church and parish. The NSW BDM Index entry reads. V18225426 2B/1822 HANSON HARRIOT AGE 32 V1822103 155/1822 HANSON HARRIOT AGE 32 You can use the reference to check out the burial register copied onto microfilm which is part of the NSW Archives Kit. Or you can buy the "certificate" from NSW BDM Registry. You should look at both references. There being two references does not mean she was buried twice. Perhaps you might find it useful to read about the early church registers by going to http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/familyHistory/historyofRegistrysRec.htm cheers Grahame On 14/07/2013, at 2:19 PM, Coral Saunders wrote: > Hi John, Thanks for your interest & your reply. The Aust Death Index lists Harriet White’s death place as Castlereagh which some descendants have read as Castlereagh Street, Sydney. As Harriet lived on a few different farms west of Sydney - around Parramatta, Windsor etc, I assumed the Death Index referred to the district rather than the street. I could be wrong & would be glad to be corrected if anyone knows better. > > Cheers, Coral Saunders > ---------------------- To send a message to the Port Jackson Convicts List, send an email to AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message