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Cemetery records
- List of Burials at Camperdown Cemetery, Sydney. Camperdown is one of Sydnet's early cemeteries. About 18,000 people were buried there.
- Pioneers at Peace: The Story of St John's Cemetery, Gordon by Jill Lyons provides a history of St John's Church and Cemetery at Gordon, on Sydney's Upper North Shore. It also provides interesting information about burial customs over the years and gives biographical details of many of thos whose final resting place is St John's. Accompanying this book is a complete record of all of those buried at St John's Cemetery Gordon, including photographs of the monuments. The sesquicentenary of the cemetery occured in 2017.
- Goldfields Cemeteries. Hill End-Tambaroora and District Burials. A list of known deaths in the area.
- Devonshire Street Cemetery, Sydney. The list provided here contains details of more burials at Devonshire Street than any list previously published.