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This page tells about the work that has been done by OACDT to establish a centralised Outback Burials Register. The Register gathers together known information about burials and interments in the State's northern out-of-council districts. It was developed early in 2006 and it is the first time this has been done in the outback.

The content of the Register was developed by the Trust itself in consultation with the State Register of Births Deaths and Marriages.

Where the information was available, each entry includes surname (or family name), given names, date of death, age or date of birth (with a preference to date of birth when available), relatives, place of burial/cemetery, GPS co-ordinates (in the case of more recent interments), area, source of information and notes. The notes to each entry include any additional detail that came forward about the cause and circumstances of death, the location of the burial or anything else that might help identification.

The register now has nearly 800 entries from 233 locations in outback areas. The initial phase of constructing the data base has involved inclusion of data from Graham Jaunay’s Lonely Graves project, from station property records and from significant cemetery burial registers and headstone readings at places like Andamooka, Blinman and Innamincka, among others.  

To access the Burials Register data base please select the cover below.

For further information on this topic please visit Graham Jaunay's website: www.jaunay.com/cemeteries.html

If you have information on Lonely graves in the northern out-of-council areas that are not recorded on our register please contact our office or email your information to: mcdonald.rebecca@saugov.sa.gov.au .