Looking for a loved One's final resting place?
Insert as follows - Surname with comma followed by Christian name with " " at either end for a more comprehensive search.
e.g. "SMITH, John". Remember that headstones may only contain initials for Christian Name so if you are unsuccessful just insert Surname.
e.g. "SMITH, John". Remember that headstones may only contain initials for Christian Name so if you are unsuccessful just insert Surname.
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If their name doesn't appear try one of the following
1. Search the State Wide Council facility - they may not have a headstone or their name is not inscribed.
Not all councils enter their information on this site but it is a start. Click here to access.
2. If there was a second marriage are they buried with their first partner under that surname?
3. Are they buried with their parents?
4. Have you searched the papers of the day for their funeral and death notices? South Australian papers are kept at the State Library of South Australia on Microfilm available for access any time the library is open.
5. If they died in Adelaide they may be buried at West Terrace Cemetery administered by Adelaide Cemeteries Authority.
A fee of $13.20 applies per enquiry however a touchscreen is available at the Cemetery near the front gates in the office.
6. Contact the local district Council for more information - they may hold burial registers.
7. Death Certificates after about 1945 show location of burial or disposal of body.
These are available to view at the District of the event up until 1967 - usually free of charge.
Click here for details
Not all councils enter their information on this site but it is a start. Click here to access.
2. If there was a second marriage are they buried with their first partner under that surname?
3. Are they buried with their parents?
4. Have you searched the papers of the day for their funeral and death notices? South Australian papers are kept at the State Library of South Australia on Microfilm available for access any time the library is open.
5. If they died in Adelaide they may be buried at West Terrace Cemetery administered by Adelaide Cemeteries Authority.
A fee of $13.20 applies per enquiry however a touchscreen is available at the Cemetery near the front gates in the office.
6. Contact the local district Council for more information - they may hold burial registers.
7. Death Certificates after about 1945 show location of burial or disposal of body.
These are available to view at the District of the event up until 1967 - usually free of charge.
Click here for details
This is a Cemetery.
Lives are commemorated, deaths are recorded
Families are reunited, memories are made tangible, and love is undisguised.
Communities’ accord respect
Families bestow reverence, historians seek information,
and our heritage is thereby enriched.
Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance
are cast in words to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life, not the death, of a loved one.
The work is a homeland for memories that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.
A history of people, a perpetual record of yesterday
and a sanctuary of peace and quiet today.
Because every life is worth loving and remembering - Always.
Anon