Victorian BDM Place Name Abbreviations List

Updated: 18 Dec 2016. Added 450 abbreviations. Many thanks for the queries and additions from Pete, Christine and Ross.

This list is comprised of place name abbreviations used in the Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriages registry indexes. It is useful for all three versions of the indexes. The list currently contains 2440 abbreviations, including abbreviation errors, and is a work in progress. Please be aware that every effort has been made to ensure that place names are correct to the abbreviations. Research has been done with various resources to prove a birth or death in the locality that matches each abbreviation. Abbreviations are generally representative of a settlement, town or suburb, but can be a shire, county, parish, area, creek, river, gully, hill, mountain, road or hospital. Some abbreviations can represent multiple places and in some cases there are multiple abbreviations for a single place from different time periods. Some places no longer exist or are now known under a different name. They are indicated in the comments if known. If you have one that's not here or don't know what it represents, please feel free to contact me on the email address above and include the full index entry of the person. Page suggestions also welcome.