BURIALS INDEX

BURIALS INDEX

This key explains how to interpret the following index on burial for the Chubut Colony. The information was obtained mainly from the Municipal Office at Gaiman, and sightings at the Gaiman cemetery.

For the Trelew cemetery, records are scarce. There is on-site a card index of names, but there are just a handful of cards indexing those interred before 1900.

For Puerto Madryn, records start at 1911 only.

For Rawson, records start at 1925 only.

These were little records kept for Esquel too.

Some of the problems with a lack of records is that some of the cemeteries used today are not original - indeed the Gaiman cemetery was relocated twice, once following a flood. There are references to other sources of information on burials in Professor Glyn Williams book "The Desert and the Dream" 1975 (available form the University of Wales Press). Additionally perusal of the local newspaper in the Chubut Valley, "Y Draford" would reveal more information (available at the National Library of Wales, and in the Gaiman Museum).

Column 1 Surname of person listed as buried. Where people are buried separately, there is a space between surnames; where two or more people were buried together, there is no space between entries.

Column 2 First names of the dead, and age if recorded

Column 3 Date the person was buried

Column 4 Lists the other people with whom the person is buried

Column 5 Lsts other relatives named, usually in the headstone or in the entry

Column 6 Reference to the official registers used:
EA Gaiman = refers to (…..)
G = records of the Municipal office in Gaiman

Column 7 Lists the plot number in the cemetery
1 = refers to one half of the cemetery
2 = refers to the second half of the cemetery where the communal plot is located

Column 8 Lists the section number of the plot in the cemetery
CO = refers to the communal plot in which the bodies of the dead were moved to following the flood and relocation of the cemetery. Today the communal plot has numerous headstones lying on it
Where the plot and section number are the same, it indicates that the people listed were buried together.

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Column 1	Surname of person listed as buried. Where people are buried separately, there is a space between surnames; where two or more people were buried together, there is no space between entries.
Column 2	First names of the dead, and age if recorded
Column 3	Date the person was buried
Column 4	Lists the other people with whom the person is buried
Column 5	Lsts other relatives named, usually in the headstone or in the entry
Column 6	Reference to the official registers used: EA Gaiman = refers to (…..) G = records of the Municipal office in Gaiman
Column 7	Lists the plot number in the cemetery 1 = refers to one half of the cemetery 2 = refers to the second half of the cemetery where the communal plot is located
Column 8	Lists the section number of the plot in the cemetery CO = refers to the communal plot in which the bodies of the dead were moved to following the flood and relocation of the cemetery. Today the communal plot has numerous headstones lying on it Where the plot and section number are the same, it indicates that the people listed were buried together.