East Perth Cemeteries - East Perth Cemeteries

Welcome to East Perth Cemeteries

From tuberculosis, brought to the colony from the Old World, to typhoid, a fever that struck Perth at the same time as gold fever, the graves of East Perth Cemeteries are a record of the first 70 years of European migration to what is now Perth, Western Australia.

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Burials Database & Interactive Map

Over a period of 50 years a legion of committed volunteers and professional researchers have combined their efforts to create a database of the burials that took place at East Perth Cemeteries from 1829 with an interactive map. A partnership between the National Trust of Western Australia and the Friends of the Battye Library Inc has made this work accessible to the community with the generous support of Lotterywest.

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Grave Stories

Uniquely Western Australian stories are embedded in the collection of graves at East Perth Cemeteries and reflect over 10,000 separate and interconnected lives. The carved stone, marble, iron, slate and granite tell of commerce and government, family and relationships, exploration and change, faith and community, hardship and struggle, love, and ultimately, of loss.

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Burial Search

Search the Database

Explore the database and discover who was buried at East Perth Cemeteries.

Here you can use key words to search by name, cause of death and other details.

If the grave site is known you can view a photograph and see its location on a map.

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Create a Walk

Navigate East Perth Cemeteries

This interactive map shows the location of all known burial sites at East Perth Cemeteries.

Find one of the walks we’ve already prepared or view what you’ve created from the database search.

Here you can also see the locations of the individual cemeteries.

View the map