VPRS 17047 Order Book

Full description

This series consists of Order books that are created to record the details of the right of interment by burial or cremation. The order is an application to the Trustee of the Cemetery for permission to inter the remains of a deceased individual. Without the order a deceased is unable to be buried or cremated.

Section 25 of the Cemeteries Act (1915), states that any person having the exclusive right of burial or interment at a family or private burial place in any grave vault or place of burial in any public cemetery on producing to the trustees satisfactory evidence of such right.

The Cemetery has legislative obligations to keep accurate records of the rights of interments as stated in Section 59 of the Cemeteries and Crematoria Act, (2003). The order book provides the evidence that the right of interment has been ordered and the information that is detailed in the order book is correct.

The Corinella Cemetery Trust allowed individuals who live in the region of Corinella and are poor or homeless to be buried at no cost when they die. Under the provisions of the Cemeteries Acts, trustees were required to permit the free burials of destitute persons (paupers).

The Order Book includes details of the deceased individual and information about their burial or cremation.

The Order Book records the following information about the deceased:

- Name of deceased
- Late residence of the deceased
- Rank of the deceased [employment]
- Age of the deceased
- Denomination [religious affiliation]
- Nature of Disease [cause of death]

Details relating to the Burial/Cremations:

- Public or Private grave
- Will it be selected by applicant [A grave site may be selected by the
applicant, however an additional cost is charged for doing so]
- Minister to Officiate
- Day and hour of Funeral
- What depth and other dimensions
- If first or second interment
- Signature of the Applicant [person who is applying for the order)