The cemetery the records kept
Its burial registers open in April 1851 and run into the 1970s — the founding dead of Christchurch kept in three volumes, nine plans, and a book of receipts.
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Barbadoes Street Cemetery's own account of itself is kept in three Church of England registers. No. 1 opens on 9 April 1851; No. 3 closes in the 1970s. Between them the ground took in the city's dead in order of burial — each entry naming who was buried and when, their age and sex, their parents or husband, their rank or profession, where they lived, and who performed the ceremony.
Barbadoes Street Cemetery's burial record runs in three Church of England registers: No. 1 from 9 April 1851 to 29 January 1870, No. 2 from 2 February 1870 to 3 September 1882, and No. 3 from 4 September 1882 into the 1970s.
Barbadoes Street Cemetery: alphabetical list of burials · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes St Cemetery: index to cemetery registers · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes St Cemetery, Church of England, Register no. 1 · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes St. Register No. 2 · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesRegister No. 3 · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesEach register entry records when the person was buried, their name and surname, age, sex, parents' or husband's name, rank or profession, place of residence, and who performed the ceremony.
Barbadoes St Cemetery, Church of England, Register no. 1 · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes St. Register No. 2 · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesRegister No. 3 · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesThe ground itself was drawn block by block in nine historical plot plans — bordered by Barbadoes Street to the west and Cambridge Terrace to the south and east, the plots not consistently numbered. Beside the lych-gate in block 3A, one plot is noted in the cataloguing as apparently infant graves.
The cemetery's ground was surveyed in nine historical plot plans, block by block — bordered by Barbadoes Street to the west and Cambridge Terrace to the south and east — and the plots are not consistently numbered; beside the lych-gate in block 3A, plot 780a is noted as apparently infant graves.
Barbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 1B · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 1A · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 2A & 2B · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 3B · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 3A · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 4A, rows A-N · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 4A, rows A-L · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes St Cemetery plan - areas 4B, rows O-Aa · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes St Cemetery plan - areas 4B, rows M-T · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesThe plots were sold, and a separate book keeps the money side of the ground: receipt numbers, purchasers' names, plot numbers and sizes, and amounts paid, its later pages recording deposits on part-purchased plots, the completed purchase, and when title was given.
The plots were sold: a separate burial plots book keeps receipt numbers, purchasers' names, plot numbers and sizes, and amounts paid, and its later pages record deposits on part-purchased plots, the completed purchase, and when title was given.
Barbadoes Street. Burial plots book · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes Street. Cemetery book, 1864-1920 · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesThe city grew up around the graves. By 1945 a view across the headstones showed residential houses over the back fence; by 1979 the Christchurch Star's negatives show graves and headstones weathered, broken or fallen over. In 2005 headstones still stood in the western portion.
By 1945 the cemetery sat inside a built-up city — a view across its headstones that year shows residential houses over the back fence — and by 1979 its graves and headstones were weathered, broken or fallen over; headstones still stood in the western portion in 2005.
Barbadoes Street Cemetery headstones · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes Street Cemetery · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes Street Cemetery · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes Street Cemetery · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesWhat survives is both the ground and its record — the registers, the nine plans, the book of receipts, the photographs — a cemetery kept as its own archive kept it.
Barbadoes Street Cemetery's burial record runs in three Church of England registers: No. 1 from 9 April 1851 to 29 January 1870, No. 2 from 2 February 1870 to 3 September 1882, and No. 3 from 4 September 1882 into the 1970s.
Barbadoes Street Cemetery: alphabetical list of burials · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes St Cemetery: index to cemetery registers · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes St Cemetery, Church of England, Register no. 1 · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBarbadoes St. Register No. 2 · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesRegister No. 3 · · Christchurch City Libraries · Canterbury StoriesBy 1945 the cemetery sat inside a built-up city — a view across its headstones that year shows residential houses over the back fence — and by 1979 its graves and headstones were weathered, broken or fallen over; headstones still stood in the western portion in 2005.
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