South Australian Cemeteries
Deaths and Burials
Death & burial information from burial registers and inscriptions on grave headstones & plaques at Adelaide West Terrace, Hindmarsh, Magill, Alberton St Paul, Blakiston St James & Kensington St Matthew Anglican, Inverbrackie Presbyterian and Walkerville Wesleyan Cemeteries up to 1851; and up to the present in Andamooka Old & New (photos by Frank Church, with thanks), Bulls Creek Primitive & Cherry Gardens Wesleyan Methodist, Enfield Old Pioneer & Nailsworth North Road Anglican (public burials up to 1900), Lower Wakefield St Joseph, Navan, Pinkerton Plains St Benedict & Salisbury St Augustine Catholic, Point Sturt Church of Christ (updated by John Yelland, with thanks) and Wilmington Cemeteries together with some SA lone graves
Burial Places
Location and brief historical information on 1,150 South Australian burial places (cemeteries, graveyards, lone graves) and memorial sites
Searching the cemetery database
From the drop-down list, select the type of search you require: Deceased person allows you to search the burials in the cemeteries listed at the top of this page for a particular person, or Cemetery name or location allows you to search for any cemeteries at a particular South Australian location. You can enter a place name, or a geolocation in the format latitude*longitude, both in decimal degrees, eg -34.9*138.5 gives cemeteries in the Adelaide western suburbs.
Note any geolocation prefixes or suffixes before undertaking extensive travel. They indicate unconfirmed or inaccurate location. Also note that the Google turn-by-turn driving directions may not describe the ideal route. Check before departure to ensure that they make sense.
If you do not get the expected results, read our more detailed help article on advanced searching of our databases.
If a person you seek is not found in the burials, look for another cemetery resource site, or read our help article, Searching for SA Cemetery Burials.
Note that many of the burial places listed here have more than one cemetery. The cemetery list includes cleared cemeteries and some that were reserved but never used. Some of the place names are obsolete and will not be found on present-day maps.
Cemetery Burial Sources
The memorial inscriptions on headstones, plaques, etc have been transcribed and basic death and burial information extracted for inclusion in this database. In some cases, headstone photographs or data from burial registers have also been included.
Acknowledgments
The major sources of links to external burial data are Peter Applebee's Australian Cemeteries and the local government burial registers database. Others include Adelaide Cemeteries Authority, Dead Search, Forever Remembered, German Headstones in Australian Cemeteries, Gravesecrets, and Headstone Transcriptions.Thanks to Paul Blair of Australian Cemetery Geolocations for assistance with locating some cemeteries.