Births, Burials or Deaths & Marriages

The records listed in this section are those which have been located in Police Station and Courthouse records. The majority of the records are registers of births, burials or deaths and marriages.

Birth registers can contain such information as the name of person born, date of birth, name of child, parents' names and professions, and place of birth. Burial or death registers can contain such information as dates of burial and death, name of person buried, age, place of residence, occupation, cause of death, and where buried. Marriage registers can contain such information as names of people being married, when and where married, ages, condition (bachelor, spinster, widow or widower, divorcee), occupation, place and length of residence, father's name and occupation, mother’s maiden name and any impediment to marriage. Not all registers give such comprehensive information. The records relate to various places as follows:

Births

North Fremantle

• AU WA S997 CONS 4542/1-6: North Fremantle Police Station. Register of Births 1955-1958
  Records name of person reporting, name and date of birth of child.

Marriages

Canning

• ACC 918: Registrar General's Office Canning District. Notices of Marriages 1880-1905

Coolgardie

• AU WA S1536 CONS 1332/8: Clerk of Courts Coolgardie. Notice of Marriage Register 1900-1902
  Notes intended marriages in the Coolgardie district.

Cue

• AU WA S1680 CONS 786/350-353: Mining Registrar Cue. Marriage Notices 1900-1903
  Applications to the District Registrar giving notice of intention to marry. Details include names, occupations and ages of people involved.

Fremantle

• AU WA S1680 CONS 939/1: Colonial Secretary's Office. Marriage Declaration Register 1843-1854

Geraldton

• ACC 932/22: Geraldton Courthouse. Marriage Notice Book 1879-1898

Irwin

• ACC 1108: Registrar General's Office - Irwin District. Irwin Marriage Register 1881-1910
• ACC 1122: Registrar General's Office - Irwin District. Irwin District (Dongara). Notices of Marriages 1910-1929

Leonora

• ACC 2695: Leonora Courthouse. Notices of Marriages 1905

Murchison District

• AU WA S1680 ACC 787/148: Cue Mining Registrar. Register of Notices of Marriage, 1894-1905, Murchison District

Toodyay

• ACC 721/53: Toodyay Courthouse. District Marriage Notice Book 1880-1906

Deaths & Burials

Busselton

• AU WA S1026 CONS 4620/1-2: Shire of Busselton. Applications for Orders of Burial, Busselton
  Covers 1939-1944 , 1961-1964. This series contains carbon copies of applications for an 'Order for Burial'. The information given includes particulars of the deceased person, e.g., name, last place of residence, occupation, denomination, and particulars of the burial, e.g., date of burial, name of minister, size of coffin, name of undertaker. Cause of death is sometimes given.

Coolgardie

• AU WA S771 CONS 4410/1: Coolgardie Police Station. Morgue Ledger 1897-1960
  All but four entries are 1897-1917. Details can include name, date of death, age and religion.
• AU WA S863 CONS 4477/1: Coolgardie Road Board and Municipality of Coolgardie (now Shire of Coolgardie). Burial Register 1894-1991

Derby

• AU WA S733 CONS 4291/1: Derby Cemetery Trustees. Burial Register 1909-1972
  Details include name, burial number, religion, age, address, where born, cause of death, date of burial, by whom burial performed and undertaker.
• AU WA 2102 CONS 5636/1: Broome Clerk of Courts. West Kimberley (Derby) Death Register 1883-1895
  Transcript of the register of deaths maintained by the Deputy Registrar in Derby.

Geraldton

• ACC 1277/114: Geraldton Courthouse. Index book to deaths
  Names only

Kelmscott

• AU WA S873 CONS 4523/1: Kelmscott Cemetery Board. Burial Register 1907-1937
• AU WA S875 CONS 4518/1: Kelmscott Cemetery Board. Right of Burial Certificates 1907

Kookynie

• AU WA S1297 CONS 4960/1: Kookynie Cemetery Trust. Kookynie Burial Register 1903-1917

Narrogin

• AU WA S1583 CONS 5214/1: Municipality of Narrogin. Burial Register 1907-1992
  This is a photocopy. The original file is held by Town of Narrogin. Details can include name, date of burial, age, sex, religion, grave location and fees paid.

Onslow

• AU WA S2273 CONS 5865/1: Onslow Police Station. Occurrence Book 1967-1971
  Maintained by Onslow police and reporting on sudden deaths in the district.

Wickepin

• AU WA S838 CONS 4485/1-2: Wickepin Police Station. Unregistered files on sudden deaths 1936-1986
  Reports and details of sudden deaths .

Wiluna

• AU WA S958 CONS 4599/1: Wiluna Road Board/Shire. Register of Burials 1898-1992
  Details include name, age, address, place and date of death, date of burial, denomination, person officiating and undertaker (photocopy, original held by Shire of Wiluna).

Births and Deaths

Broomehill

• ACC 3324/1: Broomehill Police Station. Births and deaths in the district 1903-1963

Day Dawn

• AU WA S1905 CONS 5258/1: Registrar General's Office. Register of Births and Deaths at Day Dawn 1905-1919
  Details include date name and parent's names in the case of births.

Denmark

• ACC 1445: Denmark Police Station. Register of Birth and Deaths in the Denmark District 1910-1947

Dowerin

• AU WA S1927 CONS 1431/1: Dowerin Assistant District Registrar. Register of Births and Deaths in Dowerin 1910-1963

Lennonville

• SU WA S1904 CONS 5259/1: Registrar General's Office. Register of Births and Deaths at Lennonville 1903-1908
  Details include date, name and parent's names in the case of births.

Murchison District

• ACC 787/144: Cue Mining Registrar. Register of Deaths 1892-1894 and Births 1893-1894, Murchison District

Narrogin

• AU WA S2868 CONS 7016/1: Registrar General’s Office. Register of Births and Deaths, Narrogin sub-district 1903-1963

Pingelly

• ACC 1412/5: Pingelly Police Station. Records of Births 1903-1961 and Deaths 1904-1956

Quairading

• ACC 2797: Quairading Police Station. Birth and Death Register 1912-1956

Wickepin

• ACC 3337/1: Wickepin Police Station. Birth and Death Register 1911-1970

Deaths at Sea

• AU WA S4060 CONS 1056/63: Harbour& Light Department. Register of Deaths on Ships off the Western Australian Coast 1902-1917
  Includes one page of births 1906-1915
• AU WA S4060 CONS 1316/19: Harbour & Light Department. Register of Births 1918-1921 and Deaths 1917-1964 recorded at sea

General

• AU WA S219 CONS 3596/2: Supreme Court. Rough Index of Deaths 1918-1924
  Connected with deceased estates.

Also check headings Cemeteries in Government Archival Records and Births, Deaths & Marriages, Cemeteries and Church Records in Private Archives.