Australian Capital Territory

How to access ACT cemetery and burial records online and in the Library.

Background

The Australian Capital Territory (formerly the Federal Capital Territory) was formerly established as a separate territory from New South Wales in 1911. Burials in this region prior to its establishment as the site for Australia's capital would have been recorded as in New South Wales.

Current cemeteries and crematoria

There are currently three public cemeteries in use in the ACT. These are located at Gunghalin, Hall and Woden.

The Canberra Memorial Parks page on the ACT government website provides a search facility to locate the names, graves or memorials for people who are buried or whose ashes or memorials are located in these three cemeteries.

NORWOOD PARK CREMATORIUM

The website of the Norwood Park Crematorium also provides a search facility to locate cremations.

Older cemeteries and gravesites

Several locations of closed cemeteries and early graves also exist in the Canberra region. These include:

• Bulgar Creek
• Cuppacumbalong cemetery
• Herbert grave at Naas (Grave of William Herbert and his two grandchildren)
• Lanyon Station
• Parkwood Graves
• Reid Cemetery
• St John's Churchyard Cemetery
• The Oaks burial ground
• Weetangera Methodist Cemetery
• William Farrar's Grave, Lambrigg (A heritage tour of Tuggeranong: Tharwa & Lanyon, a self-guided tour)

In the Library

Anglican Parish Registers

The Anglican parishes of the Canberra-Goulburn area were initially part of the Diocese of Sydney. In 1863 a separate diocese of Goulburn was formed  and in 1950 became the Diocese of Canberra-Goulburn. The Diocese includes 59 parishes.

Parish registers for this Diocese and others are available on microfilm in the SAG Parish Register collection. See our Newspapers and Family History zone Information Desk for guide. Now available on open access those registers which include burials are listed below:

• St. John's Church, Wagga Wagga, burials 1858-1867, 1872-1921
  
  mfm G 24630 SAG 0222

• St. John's Church, Batlow, cemetery book 1932-1948
  
  mfm G 21887B SAG 0048B

• St Jude’s, Tumbarumba, burials: 22 November, 1906-27 February, 1921.

• All Saints’, Tumut, burials: 5 November, 1855-10 March, 1877 and 2 March, 1897-19 October, 1919.
  
  mfm G 24565 SAG 0214

• Christ Church, Bungonia, N.S.W. burials: 1840-1911

• All Saints’ Anglican Church, Marulan, N.S.W. burials: 1844-1921
  
  mfm G 24428 SAG 0179 

• All Saints’ Anglican Church, Marulan, N.S.W. burials: 1914-1917

• St Paul’s Anglican Church, Murrumburrah, N.S.W. burials: 1883-1922
  
  mfm G 24438 SAG 0189 

• Parish of Gunning and Collector, New South Wales. burials: 1840-1856

  St Edmund’s Anglican Church, Gunning, N.S.W. burials: 1896-1921

• St Luke’s Anglican Church, Junee, N.S.W. burials: January-March 1917
  
  mfm G 24427 SAG 0178 

• St Paul’s Anglican Church, Murrumburrah, N.S.W. Burials: 18 April, 1883-11 April, 1922 (Note: None recorded in 1884, 1886-April 1891, April 1892-1898) 

• Christ Church, Pambula, N.S.W. burials: 1856-1870 and 1881-1921

• Christ Church, Queanbeyan, N.S.W. burials: 1838-1880, one entry each for 1888 and 1890

  All Saints’ Anglican Church, Sutton Forest, N.S.W.  burials: 1833-1838

• St. Mark’s Anglican Church, Tarcutta, N.S.W. burials: 23 October, 1909-10 January, 1919
  
  mfm G 24555 SAG 0212