Records of Interments in the Non-municipal Cemeteries of New Orleans, 1841-1846

Sub-Series

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Records of Cemeteries owned and operated by religious or private entities. Information regarding Catholic Cemeteries can also be located at the New Orleans Catholic Cemeteries Office.

Dates

Other: 1841-1846

Conditions Governing Access

Available on microfilm to registered researchers by appointment. Original documents are closed for research.

Requesting Materials

Materials Request Guidelines

Biographical / Historical

Beginning in 1841, with the establishment of the Board of Health, cemetery sextons required death certificates before an interment could take place. The sextons were to record all certificates in a book and, if so requested, to send that book at the end of each year to the Mayor's Office for retention in the archives of the city. Five manuscript volumes of interment records for non-municipal cemeteries survive in the City Archives, apparently the copies provided to the Mayor's Office by the sextons in compliance with the new regulations. Each volume has columns for the following data: name, "quality, calling or trade," age, sex, bond or free (or color), disease, when born, where born, when died, where died, period of time in the city, married or single, and remarks. Not all columns are filled in consistently for all cemeteries.

Extent

From the Collection: 100 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Processing Information

These volumes were previously cataloged as records of the individual cemeteries represented and were microfilmed according to that cataloging arrangement.