Late of Carey Bay

Feeling the love for volunteers at The Ryerson Index today. Recently members of Lake Macquarie Family History Group Inc. scanned death and funeral notices from the Newcastle Morning Herald, and other volunteers indexed them.

My earlier searches of Ryerson for Carey Bay had returned a few results from out of area newspapers. With the addition entries from a local newspaper, the Newcastle Morning Herald, to the database I was hoping for better results from a new search.

My expectations were exceeded. Yesterday I revisited the Index and found 1248 entries that included "Late of Carey Bay" or something similar. I noted that there are an additional 40 entries for the alternate spelling of Cary Bay.

Numbers from my initial "Carey Bay" search

I started by checking the 310 entries up to the year 2000. Around half of these are newly identified residents for my One Place Study that I hadn't found in other records. This is probably due to the fact that Carey Bay also known earlier as Cary Bay,  was previously a locality in Toronto until it was gazetted as "Carey Bay" on 31 May 1991 when the boundaries were determined. Electoral Rolls and several other records show these people as living in Toronto.

A selection of entries from the Ryerson Index giving sources for the information

I have plenty to keep me busy as I further explore these individuals and follow up on the 900+ entries I have yet to examine.

250 Obsequies

Today we reached another milestone. The 250th memorial was added to the Carey Bay 2283 Virtual Cemetery on FindaGrave. 

Number 250 is Margaret Jean Lyons nee Hathaway was the subject of the obsequies performed at Pinegrove Memorial Park. The following summary was produced from the CareyBay2283 database. 

Name:	Margaret Jean Hathaway
Sex:	Female
Individual Facts
Birth	15 Jul 1921	Temora, NSW, Australia
Residence	1949 (about age 28)	ParliamentaryDivision: Mitchell; Blacktown, NSW, Australia1
Death	23 Jan 2016 (age 94)	Carey Bay Nursing Home, Carey Bay, NSW, Australia
Burial	29 Jan 2016 (age 94)	Pinegrove Memorial Park, Minchinbury, NSW, Australia
Residence		Carey Bay, NSW, Australia
Alt. Name		Margaret Jean Lyons
Marriages/Children
1. Alfred Charles Lyons 1912-1998
Marriage	1942 (about age 21)	Parramatta, NSW, Australia2

Carey Bay Virtual Cemetery

There are no cemeteries in Carey Bay.

From my research of people from Carey Bay I have found burials in several local cemeteries, some small rural cemeteries and in larger cemeteries in the cities of Newcastle and Sydney.

As a Findagrave user I have set up several virtual cemeteries for groups of people with a common connection or alliance. This is a useful facility for researchers seeking to locate the final resting places of people of interest.

I have set up a Virtual Cemetery for those deceased who had a connection to Carey Bay. This Virtual Cemetery can be accessed from a link on this site's main menu.

Eulah Creek Cemetery, NSW (Jill Ball Photographer)