Jericho Cemetery

Early burials – Jericho Cemetery, 1884-1898

The Jericho township was surveyed and a plan submitted to the Surveyor-General on 23 November 1884 by J Vincent S Desgrand. This plan does not include a cemetery. He had, on 20 November presided at an inquest into the death of John/Jack Lynch, a business partner with John Monahan in a hotel, the first being built in the town. Therefore, it seems likely that John Lynch was buried within the area which Vincent Desgrand considered suitable for a cemetery.

The Cemetery Reserve was not proclaimed until August 1897 with a Cemetery Trust established by September. However, several monuments which remain to the present mark earlier burials within the Reserve, the earliest being in April 1886.

The Jericho Cemetery Burial Register, now held by the Barcaldine Regional Council includes a record of burials from 29 December 1899. 

Notes on the database

The information included in the database includes burials so far located from November 1884 to the first listed in the Jericho Cemetery Burial Register – 29 December 1899. The Jericho Cemetery Burial Index, published by the Genealogical Society of Queensland in 1995 includes five burials between April 1886 and October 1898.

Many details have been verified through the Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Queensland State Archives inquest and coronial files and from local newspapers.

Registration of deaths and births and Burial date

Burial dates are included when established; if not, they are accessible on the full death registration details available from the Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

References

The primary reference for all burials are the Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages  registrations. Supplementary references are listed when located.The following abbreviations have been used for newspapers: BC – The Brisbane Courier; Ca – The Capricornian; MB – Morning Bulletin; WC – The Western Champion; all available through the National Library of Australia newspaper collection.

Jericho burials, 1884-1898