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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Death and Dying

Subject
2002 Bali Bombing
Appin massacre
Death and dying in nineteenth century Sydney
Death and dying in twentieth century Sydney
Devonshire Street Cemetery
Eastern seaboard bushfires 1994
First State funeral
Funeral trains
Glebe Coroner's Court
Granville rail disaster 1977
Lindt Café Siege 2014
Luna Park Ghost Train fire 1979
Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard
Strathfield massacre 1991
The Life and Death of Joe Lynch
The death of Anna Wood 1995
Tram deaths
Act to empower Coroners to hold Inquests concerning Fires 1861
Coroners' Act 1898
Coroners' Act 1901 No 54
Coroners' Act 1912 No 30
Coroners' Bail for Manslaughter Act of 1861 No 15a
Coroner’s Act 2009
Crook as Rookwood
Medical Witnesses at Inquests Act 1838
Next of Kin Memorial Plaque
When It Comes
Coroner's Court, The Rocks
Dead House, Circular Quay
Forensic Medicine & Coroners Court Complex, Lidcombe
Kinselas
Mortuary railway station
NSW State Coroner's Court and Morgue, Glebe
South Sydney Morgue
Royal Commission into the former Chelmsford Private Hospital and Mental Health Services in New South Wales 1988-1990
Australian School of Embalming
Cremation Society of New South Wales
Division of Forensic Medicine
Funeral Reform Association of NSW
Funeral and Allied Industries Union
Institute of Forensic Medicine
NSW Cremation Company
NSW Health Pathology Forensic Medicine
New South Wales Cremation Society
Office of the City Coroner
Office of the NSW State Coroner
Registrar-General's Office
Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
Sydney Church of England Cemetery Company
Wood Coffill and Company
Beaver, William
Botterill, Paul
Carter, Ronald Graeme
Donlon, Denise
Griffiths, Chris
Harrison, Anne
Hartford Rivers, G
Hilton, John
Howard, Robert Rice
Kinsela, Charles
Lawrence, Christopher H
Podio, Miriam Victoria
Sutisno, Meiya
Thompson, Clyde William
Tucker, William
Camperdown Cemetery
Devonshire Street Cemetery
Dolphins Point
Old Burial Ground
Crypt of St Mary's Cathedral
Grave of Père Receveur
Rickards Memorial
Wentworth Mausoleum
'Rookwood Cemetery Departs From Mortuary Platform', indicator board at Powerhouse Museum 17 April 2015
A Grave and Burning Question - Dr Creed's NSW Cremation Bill 1886
A view of the native burial of Baggara, a native of NSW 20 November 1813
AG Foster transcribing the details of the vault where David Ramsay and Sarah Ann Lord were interred on the Dobroyd estate, c1910
Administrative and coroner's offices in the former NSW State Coroner's Court, Glebe September 2020
After a prayer service over the grave of Father Serapheim Phocas, Waverley Cemetery, 2010
An artist's view of a sensational inquest: The court drama of Caroline Grills August 1953
Are You Afraid To Die? Religious tract found during archaeological dig at Hyde Park Barracks
Audiovisual controls in the former Coroner's Court, Glebe 2009
Burial at sea from HMAS Sydney 1914
Burning a Corpse c1798
Camperdown cemetery 'Sacred to the memory of Emily Alice Elliott' c1854
Capture and death of bushranger Ben Hall 1865
Cemetery at Camperdown, March 4th 1854
Commemorative plaque to Kate Rickards on the Rickards Memorial in Waverley Cemetery 2012
Commission to John Dight to act as a coroner in the Colony of New South Wales, 4 June 1828
Courtroom 2, in the former State Coroner's Court building, Glebe September 2020
Crowds wait outside the City Morgue for witnesses in the Graeme Thorne kidnapping to leave the Coroner's Court, The Rocks 22 November 1960
Death notice for Te Atahoe in Sydney Gazette, 3 March 1803, p2
Description of the execution of Thomas Barrett in Arthur Bowes Smyth's journal, 27 February 1788
Description of the trial and execution of Thomas Barrett in Arthur Bowes Smyth's journal, February 1788
Detail of a plan of Necropolis at Haslem's Creek shewing the appropriations for the various religious denominations 1868
Devonshire Street Cemeteries and the rear of South Sydney Morgue c1900
Devonshire Street cemetery prior to demolition, showing the headstone of Joseph Leburn c1900
Entrance to the former NSW State Coroner’s Court on Parramatta Road 2020
First page of letter from City Health Officer Henry Graham to the City of Sydney Council concerning Devonshire Street Cemetery, 15 January 1860
Floral tributes at Martin Place to the victims of the Lindt Cafe Siege, 19 December 2014
Front page of Government Gazette 7 July 1854
Funeral of Violet McKenzie, Greenwich May 1982
Funeral procession for Herr Peter F Kempermann, Consul-General for Germany, passing along West Street, North Sydney 7 November 1900
Government and General Orders concerning the closure of the Old Burial Ground and the opening of Devonshire Street Cemetery 22 January 1820
Government and General Orders concerning the hour of internment in the new burial ground 14 October 1820
Grave of Katherine Plessos Crummer, Waverley Cemetery 2010
Grave of William H Bennett and Elizabeth Agnes Miller in St Johns churchyard, Parramatta 2015
Gravestone 'Sacred to the memory of William Yardley, who lost his life by the bite of a Snake on the 5th of December 1824' in Devonshire Street Cemetery, 1901
Headstone of Cora Gooseberry in Devonshire Street Cemetery c1901
Headstone of Hugh McDonald, Devonshire Street Cemetery c1900
Headstone of Samuel and Esther (Easter) Bradley, Devonshire Street Cemetery c1901
Headstone of artist JW Lewin in Devonshire Street Cemetery before its resumption in 1901
Headstones in Devonshire Street Cemetery, including those of of Henry Harding, John Cadman, William Lovegrove and Sarah Perry c1901
Jewish funeral cortege passing Sydney University and travelling west on Parramatta Road c1930
Life's Tragedy: announcement in Smith's Weekly of Joe Lynch's death, 1927
Meeting room on the top floor of the former Glebe Coroner's Court building September 2020
Melancholy Accident - report of the drowning of Willam and Mary Cavendish during regatta on Anniversary Day 26 January 1839
Memo from City Health Officer GF Dansey about condition of the Dead House, Circular Quay, 1879
Memorial card on the death of Cardinal Patrick Francis Cardinal Moran, Archbishop of Sydney 1911
Memorial to Sydney Rickards, the young son of Harry and Kate Rickards in Waverley Cemetery 2012
Miles Franklin's final entry in her diary, 14 September 1954
Mixed technologies in the reporting room at the morgue, State Coroner's Court, Glebe September 2020
Monument in memory of NC Bochsa, erected by Anna Bishop over his grave in Camperdown Cemetery, 1856
Mortuary Station, Redfern 1871
Mrs P Kirby and Sons, undertakers April 1898
New Coroner's Court - Architect's perspective 1967
Newspaper clipping reporting death of Ellen Anderson May 16 1931
Newspaper clipping reporting death of Ellen Anderson May 22 1931
Newspaper report of the massacre of Aboriginal people at Appin on 17 April 1816
Next of kin plaque: Private J A Newcomb, 18 Battalion, AIF c1920
No1 Mortuary Railway station, Rookwood Cemetery - funeral train in station c1870
Notes on the witness box to assist with swearing the oath, in courtroom of the the former State Coroner's Court building, Glebe September 2020
Parking and loading dock in lower level of the former NSW State Coroner's Court and Morgue, Glebe 2020
Photographers and journalists outside the Coroner's Court, The Rocks c1930
Plan of lower level containing the morgue, the Glebe Coroner's Court September 2020
Plan of top floor of Glebe Coroner's Court 2020
Plaque commemorating the opening of NSW State Coroner’s Court and Morgue, Glebe, on 20 August 1971, September 2020
Post-mortem and viewing room, former Coroner's Court, Glebe September 2020
Public funeral to Mr Wentworth - scene in George Street 6 May 1873
Report on the Coroner's Inquest and the burials of of Thomas Gibbes, Charles Kemp and James Starkie of the Edward Lombe 6 September 1834
Rickards Memorial in Waverley Cemetery 2012
Rickards Memorial in Waverley Cemetery 2012
Segments of carved trees which were associated with burials on the Greendale Estate, Vermont near Narellan
South Sydney Morgue, Devonshire Street Cemetery c1900
Staff height chart on the doorframe of the morgue reporting office in the former Glebe Coroner's Court 2020
The Bridge Street Burglars: Graphic Account of the Execution in 'The Bird O'Freedom', 2 June 1894
The Sydney Necropolis - Haslem's Creek 1876
The common hangman January 1880
The former NSW State Coroner’s Court on Parramatta Road 2020
The grave of Abbe le Receveur, Botany Bay 30 November 1842
The morgue and refrigeration room, Coroner's Court, Glebe 2020
To the Editor of the Australian, on the decease of persons dying in public hospitals, December 1824
Transcription of the headstones of John Lewin and TS Amos in Row 4 at Devonshire Street Cemetery from AG Foster's records c1900
Tree trunk bearing epitaph of Receveur, now in Louvre photographed October 1919
View of the reporting room at the morgue, former State Coroner's Building, Glebe September 2020
Where Pioneers sleep: Tombstone tales in St John's Churchyard, Parramatta 1923
Yemmurrvonyea Kebbarah, a Native of New South Wales, died May 18th 1794. supposed to be aged 19 Years, at the house of Mr. Edward Kent, Eltham Parish Register
Death at the Gasworks, from These Walls Have Ears: My Place 2013
George Bates recalls the day when he buried Henry Lawson's cattle dog in North Sydney c1929, interviewed 1986