# Barbadoes Street Cemetery and Setting https://www.chch.live/place/293 What else stood here: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.52306649393573&lon=172.64678196679893 ## What is known (each claim is read out of the document cited) - 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 (https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/cccarchives/barbadoesregisters/ccl-cs-26181), 1851-01-01T00:00:00Z - Each 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 (https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/cccarchives/barbadoesregisters/ccl-cs-26179), 1851-04-09T00:00:00Z - 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 (https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/maps-plans/cemeteries/barbadoesstreet/ccl-cs-12871), 1851-01-01T00:00:00Z - 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 (https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/cccarchives/barbadoesregisters/ccl-cs-26184), 1872-07-01T00:00:00Z - 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 (https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/cccarchives/glassplates/ccl-cs-119996), 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z ## Written and sourced - [The cemetery the records kept](https://www.chch.live/article/the-cemetery-the-records-kept) ## Documents tied to this place *These are leads, not evidence, search results nobody has read yet.* The first 10 of 20 are listed. - Barbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 1B (1851-01-01T00:00:00Z), https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/maps-plans/cemeteries/barbadoesstreet/ccl-cs-12871 - Barbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 1A (1851-01-01T00:00:00Z), https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/maps-plans/cemeteries/barbadoesstreet/ccl-cs-12870 - Barbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 2A & 2B (1863-01-01T00:00:00Z), https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/maps-plans/cemeteries/barbadoesstreet/ccl-cs-12872 - Barbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 3B (1871-01-01T00:00:00Z), https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/maps-plans/cemeteries/barbadoesstreet/ccl-cs-12874 - Barbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 4A, rows A-N (1880-01-01T00:00:00Z), https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/maps-plans/cemeteries/barbadoesstreet/ccl-cs-12876 - Barbadoes St Cemetery plan - areas 4B, rows O-Aa (1882-01-01T00:00:00Z), https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/maps-plans/cemeteries/barbadoesstreet/ccl-cs-12878 - Barbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 3A (1871-01-01T00:00:00Z), https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/maps-plans/cemeteries/barbadoesstreet/ccl-cs-12873 - Barbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 4A, rows A-L (1880-01-01T00:00:00Z), https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/maps-plans/cemeteries/barbadoesstreet/ccl-cs-12875 - Barbadoes St Cemetery plan - areas 4B, rows M-T (1882-01-01T00:00:00Z), https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/maps-plans/cemeteries/barbadoesstreet/ccl-cs-12877 - Barbadoes Street. Cemetery book, 1864-1920 (1864-03-29T00:00:00Z), https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/cccarchives/barbadoesregisters/ccl-cs-26182 ## Questions, answered briefly **What is Barbadoes Street Cemetery and Setting?** A place on the record in Christchurch. **Where is Barbadoes Street Cemetery and Setting?** Christchurch, [on the map →](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.52306649393573,172.64678196679893,17) **What is known about Barbadoes Street Cemetery and Setting?** 5 sourced statements on its record, drawn from documents dated 1851 to 1945, each carried with its source.