Papua New Guinea Cemeteries

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Cemetery Records[edit | edit source]

Research use: Death information in other records is often meager. Used to distinguish adults and surviving children in parish registers, other family relationships. Chinese and other non-Christian cemeteries are particularly valuable due to a dearth of other records.

Record type: Lists of gravestone burial records, exhumations, sextons records, obituaries.

Time Period: 1871-present.

Content: Name, age, death and burial date and place, birth date and place, sometimes relatives.

Location: District and municipal archives, church archives, Chinese community associations, cemetery offices.

Population coverage: 10%.

Reliability: Good.[1]


List of Cemeteries[edit | edit source]

  • Bomana War Cemetery (Commonwealth War Graves) - Bomana Road Port Morseby NCD, 121, Papua New Guinea
  • Lae War Cemetery - Lae, Papua New Guinea, adjacent to the Botanical Gardens
  • Bita Paka War Cemetery - South of the city of Rabaul
  • 9 Mile Cemetery - Port Moresby, National Capital District, National Capital, Papua New Guinea
  • Commonwealth War Graves


References[edit | edit source]

  1. The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Papua New Guinea,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 2000.