Source Data

• Chippers Funderal Directors

  Forms for instructions for burials 1896-1924.

• Colin Caughey Collection

  Collection of family histories and death certificates donated to him and compiled whilst a volunteer at East Perth Cemeteries.

• Don Cohen

  Jewish burials in Western Australia.

• FamilyHistoryWA

  Inquests derived from the Police Gazettes

  Memorial Inscriptions

  Registrar Generals Office Index 1896-1916

  Databases of information obtained from State Library sources including:-

  1. State Library of Western Australia -
     1. Acc 2467A/8
     2. Acc 2467A/9
     3. Acc 2467A/10
     4. Acc 2467A/11
     5. Acc 2467A/44

• Family Historians

  Members of the public who kindly donated their family histories they had compiled on ancestors who are buried at the East Perth Cemeteries.

• Father Edward Doncaster

  Memorial Inscriptions compiled as Archivist of Church of England Western Australia.

• Graham Bown

  Many databases compiled as an historian.

• Joy Reindl Collection

  Collection of Burials compiled by Joy Reindl whilst a volunteer at the East Perth Cemeteries.

• National Library of Australia

  Trove Digitised Newspapers 1803-1995.

• National Trust of Western Australia

  Collection of information on individual monuments and memorial inscriptions collated by East Perth Cemeteries volunteers since 1976.

• Ron Bodycoat Heritage Architect

  Collection of materials compiled by Ron Bodycoat in his role as a heritage advisor.

• Royal Perth Hospital Museum

  Colonial Hospital Admission Register 1876-1920

• Royal Western Australian Historical Society

  Mrs Ray Oldham Collection.

  Archived Photographs of Headstones.

  East Perth Cemetery: Resting place of Western Australian Pioneers 3 Volumes by Richardson and Davies Family Histories.

  Citations from the Annual Pioneer Memorial Service celebrated on the Sunday of the Western Australia (Foundation) Day long weekend.

• State Library of Western Australia 

  282.9411 WES - The West Australian Catholic Record 

  355.31 BRO – The Veterans: A history of the Enrolled Pensioner Force in Western Australia 1850-1880 

  365.7 WES – Annual Reports on the Convict Establishments at Western Australia and Tasmania

  360 POL – The Police Gazettes of Western Australia

  Acc 2467A – St George’s Cathedral (Perth) – Anglican Church of Australia

  Acc 2992A – Congregational Church Union of Western Australia

  Acc 6809A – Western Australian Records

  AJCP CO18/10 – Register No 26 Early Deaths and Burials in Western Australia

  PR2640 – Henderson and Doncaster Indexes, Records of deaths and tombstone inscriptions

  Q929.5 RIC East Perth Cemetery: Resting place of Western Australian Pioneers 3 Volumes by Richardson and Davies, including Wesleyan Burials 1862-1885.

• State Records Office

  Acc 1156 - Convict Establishment Records 

  Acc 1156 V24 – Miscellaneous 1882 – 1897 Deaths Registered 1895 - 1900

  Acc 1157 – Lists of Persons Naturalised previous to 1871

  Acc 2799 – Colonial Surgeon Register of Deaths 1875-1884

  Acc 3436 – Grants of Probate

  Acc 36 – Colonial Secretary’s Office Correspondence Inwards 1828-1878

  Acc 703 - Registrar General’s Office Births, Deaths and Marriages 1829-1841

  Cons 430 – Western Australian Police Department General Files

  Cons 527 – Colonial Secretary’s Office post 1883 Correspondence files

  Cons 541 item 1900/11897 V2 – Burials in East Perth Cemetery

  Cons 3403 – Grants of Probate

  Cons 3431 – Bankruptcy Records

  Cons 3458 – Applications for Grants of Letters of Administration

• Uniting Church Archives

  Map of Wesleyan Cemetery at East Perth