Victorian BDM Place Name Abbreviations List

Updated: 1 Sep 2017. Added 300 abbreviations. Sorry for the long break. Many thanks for the queries and especially the additions from Lyn and Pete.

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 2740 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, forest, hill, mountain, road, hospital, asylum or convent. Some abbreviations can represent multiple places and there are also 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.