Manly Cemetery Burial Records on Website

Manly Council's website now contains details of all the burials in historic Manly Cemetery, taken from the Cemetery's burial registers, and maps showing how to locate them. Our website, http://www.manly.nsw.gov.au/Manly-Cemetery.html can also be accessed from the Council's home page, www.manly.nsw.gov.au under Library/Wellings Local Studies/Manly Cemetery. Anyone with internet access can now check if they have a relative buried in Manly Cemetery, and if they do, the maps show the location of every plot in the cemetery to help enquirers find the one they’re interested in. For the Roman Catholic and General sections, information given may include some or all of: plot number, name and address of person who purchased the plot, name and last address of person buried, age, and date of burial (not date of death). For the Church of England section, less information is given: date of burial, plot number, name of person. To check if there’s additional detail available for a Church of England burial please contact the Local Studies Librarian on 9976 1741: this information may be added to the website at some time in the future. Hard copy Burial Registers for the three sections of the Cemetery are also held in Manly Council’s strong-room, and may be consulted on microfilm in Manly Library Local Studies room. The names recorded in the handwritten Burial Registers were transcribed to the website after often painstaking work by Library staff and volunteers who pored over what were often almost indecipherable hand-written records, particularly in the case of the Church of England volume.