Historical information

A large lot of papers, including this and many other birth, death and burial records, were apparently found in the ceiling cavity of the Sandy Creek/Tarnagulla Post and Telegraph Office in the later 20th Century, during building works.


Donald Clark Collection.

Physical description

Transcript of document (partly printed, partly handwritten):

Certificate Of Burial
SCHEDULE [G.]

I, Philip Masters of Tarnagulla, Undertaker do ......[section missing].... the body of Charlotte Thorpe ......[section missing].... Tarnagulla , was on the 11th May, 1872 duly buried at Tarnagulla ......[section missing].... in our presence.

Witness our hands this 11th day of May, 1872.

Phillip Masters Undertaker
Henry Baker Wes. Methodist Minister (Name and Religion)