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A GUIDE TO BURIALS IN THE LONDON AREA
PART 1
Records of London burials can be extremely difficult to trace. Parish and cemetery burial registers are held in different locations and there is no central index. The National Burial Index for England and Wales (NBI) has very limited coverage of the London area with only 5 registers in Middlesex covered (nothing before 1813) and 15,000 entries. There is no coverage of any registers within metropolitan Surrey.
There is an index (1813-1853) to burials in the churches situated in the square mile of the City of London, which can be obtained from WEST SURREY FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY: http://tinyurl.com/mruffu
You can also access the index on two subscription/pay as you go websites
FINDMYPAST: http://tinyurl.com/mhn364
BRITISH ORIGINS: http://tinyurl.com/mbrq3z
British Origins also has access to the Boyd’s London burial index, of mainly adult males (1538-1872), which was compiled in 1934 (but has only 243,000 entries) and St Leonard Shoreditch burials (1813-1853).
Before the 1840s most people were buried in Anglican churchyards, though some non-conformist churches had their own burial grounds.
The National Archives holds many non-conformist church registers largely pre 1837 (in series RG4, RG6, and RG8), and these registers are now being placed online at BMD REGISTERS: http://tinyurl.com/nxokv9
From the 1840s onward searching for London burials becomes much more complex, with most burials taking place in large non-denominational private or civic cemeteries, the records for which are held usually by London boroughs themselves or if privately owned by the individual cemeteries. Some copies of registers will be held in local archives. There are few online indexes.
The first public cemetery established in London was in 1833 and was 72 acres in size. By 1841 there were six more of these large cemeteries in the London area. By the 1840s London churchyards were so overcrowded that they were considered a growing health risk and were increasingly closed to new burials e.g. ‘St Martin-in-the-Fields churchyard was only 200 feet (60 metres) square yet by the early 1840's, it was estimated to contain the remains of between sixty and seventy thousand persons'. The sheer numbers of Londoners buried either in churchyards or cemeteries makes searching for a burial without a rough date of death and knowledge of which church or cemetery register to search very difficult. THE LONDON DIGITALISATION PROGRAMME which aims to index parish registers will help enormously in finding burials in church registers, but not unfortunately with cemetery registers. It will not include the Westminster parishes: http://tinyurl.com/57psxs
Information about London church burials by geographic region and parish is given at this website THE LONDON BURIAL GROUNDS which has further notes and photographs: http://tinyurl.com/lrtkdt
Information about London Jewish Cemeteries can be found here at THE INTERNATIONAL JEWISH CEMETERY PROJECT: http://tinyurl.com/mw4ooy
In a large metropolis like London people were not always buried in their ‘local’ cemetery, and there were often ‘arrangements’ between specific burial grounds to bury those from certain geographical areas. There were also similar arrangements between certain London parishes/hospitals/workhouses/societies and cemeteries – as an example see BROOKWOOD CEMETERY IN WOKING SURREY: http://tinyurl.com/ladef2
Many London churchyards and burial grounds have been destroyed either through redevelopment or bombing during World War Two. Some older London cemeteries have been neglected and the gravestones have been degraded by pollution and general age. Part of Nunhead cemetery for instance is now a nature reserve see this article at BBC LONDON: http://tinyurl.com/cdke93
Burial was an expensive process and most Londoners could not afford the expense of a cemetery plot, let alone a gravestone. Many Londoners were buried in common graves which contained other burials. Burial in a common grave was not synonymous with a pauper funeral. It did not mean the funeral itself was not paid for by the family.
Cemetery registers usually give the name of the deceased, age, abode and occupation, the date of death and of burial, and the position of the grave. These records are arranged chronologically, and are not indexed alphabetically, though some cemeteries may have some computerised indexes. If a private grave was purchased those records will indicate who purchased the plot, their address and when it was purchased and whether a gravestone was erected (though not whether it survives). The records will also indicate who else was buried in the plot, when and at what depths.
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A GUIDE TO BURIALS IN THE LONDON AREA
PART 3
GREATER LONDON CEMETERIES
NORTH WEST LONDON:
INDEPENDENTLY MANAGED CEMETERIES
Brompton Cemetery, Fulham Road, SW10 (1840) owners THE ROYAL PARKS: http://tinyurl.com/lds9v5
Highgate & Kentish Town Cemetery, Swains Lane, N6 (1839) owners HIGHGATE CEMETERY LIMITED: http://tinyurl.com/my5llv
Registers held at CAMDEN LOCAL STUDIES AND ARCHIVES CENTRE: http://tinyurl.com/awpsw
Kensal Green (All Souls) Cemetery, Harrow Road, W10 (1833) owners THE GENERAL CEMETERY COMPANY: http://tinyurl.com/mj9l4x
Bishop Transcripts (Anglican burials only) 1833-1872 held at the LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES: http://tinyurl.com/5sykao
New Southgate Cemetery, (formerly Great Northern London Cemetery) Brunswick Park Road, N11 (1861) owners NEW SOUTHGATE CEMETERY AND CREMATORIUM LIMITED
Tottenham Park Cemetery, Montagu Road, N9 (1912) owners BADGEHURST LTD
LONDON BOROUGH CEMETERIES
BARNET: http://tinyurl.com/lpvkt
Hendon Cemetery, Holders Hill Road, NW7 (1899)
BRENT: http://tinyurl.com/lw3asd
Alperton Cemetery, Clifford Road, Alperton, Wembley (1917)
Carpenders Park Lawn Cemetery, Oxhey Lane, Carpenders Park, Nr Watford (1954)
Paddington Cemetery, Willesden Lane, NW6 (1855)
Willesden New Cemetery, Franklyn Road, NW10 (1891)
Willesden Old Cemetery, Neasden Lane, NW1 (1868)
Wembley Old Burial Ground, High Road, Wembley (1867)
CAMDEN AND ISLINGTON: http://tinyurl.com/mxhohr
Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Road, NW6 (1876)
Islington Cemetery, High Road, East Finchley, N2 (1854)
St Pancras Cemetery, High Road, East Finchley, N2 (1854)
Trent Park, Cockfosters Road, Barnet (1960)
EALING: http://tinyurl.com/lp79ev
Acton Cemetery, Park Royal Road, W3 (1895)
Greenford Park Cemetery, Windmill Lane, Greenford (1901)
Havelock Cemetery, Church Road, Southall (1883)
Hortus Cemetery, Merrick Road, Southall (1944)
South Ealing Cemetery, South Ealing Road, W5 (1861)
ENFIELD: http://tinyurl.com/lzlu4
Edmonton Cemetery, Church Street, N9 (1884)
Hertford Road Cemetery, Enfield, Enfield (1881)
Lavender Hill Cemetery, Cedar Road, Enfield (1872)
Old Southgate Cemetery, Waterfall Road, N11 (c.1880)
HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM: http://tinyurl.com/bwapt7
Fulham Cemetery, Fulham Palace Road, SW6 (1865)
Hammersmith Cemetery, Margravine Road, W6 (1869)
Mortlake Cemetery, Clifford Avenue, SW14 (1926)
North Sheen Cemetery, Lower Richmond Road, SW14 (1909)
HARINGEY: http://tinyurl.com/be9ba
Enfield Cemetery, Great Cambridge Road, Enfield (1938)
Tottenham Cemetery, White Hart Lane, N9 (1856)
HARROW: http://tinyurl.com/n5dcsq
Eastcote Lane Cemetery, Eastcote Lane, South Harrow (1914)
Harrow Cemetery, Pinner Road, Harrow (1888)
Harrow Weald Cemetery, Clamp Hill, Stanmore (1937)
Paines Lane Cemetery, Paines Lane, Pinner (1860)
Pinner New Cemetery, Pinner Road, Pinner (1933)
Roxeth Hill Burial Ground, Roxeth Hill, Harrow (1922)
Wealdstone Cemetery, Byron Road, Wealdstone, Harrow (1902)
HILLINGDON: http://tinyurl.com/mrttma
Breakspear Crematorium, Breakspear Road, Ruislip (1958)
Cherry Lane Cemetery, Shepiston Lane, Harlington (1936)
Harmondsworth Burial Ground, High Street, Harmondsworth Village (1905)
Harlington Burial Ground, St Peter's Way, Harlington (1871)
Hillingdon & Uxbridge Cemetery, Hillingdon Hill, Hillingdon (1856)
Northwood Cemetery, Chestnut Avenue, Northwood (1915)
Victoria Lane Burial Ground, Victoria Lane, Harlington (1871)
West Drayton Cemetery, Harmondsworth Road, West Drayton (1939)
HOUNSLOW: http://tinyurl.com/ml77tl
Bedfont Cemetery, Bedfont Road, Feltham (1941)
Borough Cemetery, Powder Mill Lane, Twickenham (1942)
Chiswick Old Cemetery, Corney Road, W4 (1888)
Chiswick New Cemetery, Staveley Road, W4 (1933)
Feltham Cemetery, Sunbury Road, Feltham (1886)
Hatton Cemetery, Faggs Road, Feltham (1974)
Hounslow Cemetery, Hanworth Road, Hounslow, (1869)
Isleworth Cemetery, Park Road, Isleworth (1880)
New Brentford Cemetery, Sutton Lane, Hounslow (1902)
South West Middlesex Crematorium, Hounslow Road, Hanworth TW13 (1954) – administered jointly by Hounslow, Richmond and Spelthorne: http://tinyurl.com/lpl2nb
KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA: http://tinyurl.com/lrfjpw
Gunnersbury Cemetery, Gunnersbury Avenue, W3 (1929)
Hanwell Cemetery, 31 Uxbridge Road, W7 (1855) see also Westminster
SPELTHORNE: http://tinyurl.com/l38rvh
Ashford Burial Ground, London Road, Stanwell (1910)
Stanwell Burial Ground, Town Lane, Stanwell (1900)
Staines Cemetery, London Road, Staines (1913)
Sunbury Cemetery, Green Way, Sunbury on Thames (1900)
WESTMINSTER: http://tinyurl.com/nwrr7n
East Finchley Cemetery (formerly St Marylebone cemetery), East End Road, N2 (1855)
Hanwell Cemetery (formerly City of Westminster cemetery), 38 Uxbridge Road, W7 (1854) see Kensington and Chelsea
Mill Hill Cemetery, (formerly Paddington New Cemetery), Milespit Hill, NW7 (1936)
CEMETERY REGISTERS HELD AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES: http://tinyurl.com/m94pzt
Royal Hospital Chelsea Burial Ground (Army), Royal Hospital Road, SW3 (1692)
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A GUIDE TO BURIALS IN THE LONDON AREA
PART 4
GREATER LONDON CEMETERIES
NORTH-EAST LONDON:
INDEPENDENTLY MANAGED CEMETERIES
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High Street, N16 (1840) present owners ABNEY PARK TRUST: http://tinyurl.com/lcxtfu
Abney Park Cemetery database: http://tinyurl.com/3potey
East London Cemetery, Grange Road, Plaistow (1874) present owners EAST LONDON CEMETERY COMPANY
Manor Park Cemetery, Serbert Road, E7 (1874) present owners MANOR PARK CEMETERY AND CREMATORIUM: http://tinyurl.com/nexymf
Woodgrange Park Cemetery Romford Road, E7 (1889) present owners BADGEHURST LTD
LONDON BOROUGH CEMETERIES
BARKING AND DAGENHAM: http://tinyurl.com/mnhx67
Chadwell Heath Cemetery, Whalebone Lane North, Dagenham (1914)
Eastbrook End Cemetery, (known as Becontree Cemetery) The Chase, Dagenham (1934)
Rippleside Cemetery, Ripple Road, Barking (1886)
HAVERING: http://tinyurl.com/kok4qd
Hornchurch Cemetery Upminster Road, Hornchurch (1932)
Rainham Cemetery, Upminster Road North, Rainham (1872)
Romford Cemetery, Crow Lane, Romford (1871)
Upminster Cemetery Ockenden Road, Upminster (1902)
NEWHAM: http://tinyurl.com/n8rhs4
West Ham Cemetery, Cemetery Road, E7 (1854)
REDBRIDGE: http://tinyurl.com/olpwo
Barkingside Cemetery, Longwood Gardens, Barkingside (1923)
Buckingham Road Cemetery (formerly Great Ilford Cemetery), Buckingham Road, Ilford (1881)
Roding Lane Cemetery, Roding Lane North, South Woodford, E18 (1940)
WALTHAM FOREST: http://tinyurl.com/npffxt
Chingford Mount Cemetery, Old Church Road, E4 (May 1884)
Walthamstow Cemetery, Queen's Road, E17 (1872)
CEMETERY REGISTERS HELD AT THE LONDON METROPOLITAN ARCHIVES
Tower Hamlets Cemetery (formerly Bow Cemetery), Southern Grove, E3 (1841): http://tinyurl.com/mlws7t and http://tinyurl.com/5sykao
CEMETERY REGISTERS HELD AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES: http://tinyurl.com/m94pzt
Bethnal Green Protestant Dissenters' Burying Ground, (Gibraltar Row) Bethnal Green E2 (1793)
Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, City Road, Islington, EC1 (1713)
Golden Lane Cemetery, (Bunhill Burial Ground), Golden Lane, Islington, EC1 (1833)
St Thomas Square Cemetery, Mare Street, Hackney, E8 (1837)
Spa Fields, Northampton Road, Clerkenwell, EC1 (1778)
Victoria Park Cemetery, Bullards Place, Hackney, E3 (1853)
Some of these cemetery records deposited at The National Archives (series RG8) can be accessed at BMD REGISTERS.CO.UK: http://tinyurl.com/ngvqjc
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A GUIDE TO BURIALS IN THE LONDON AREA
PART 5
GREATER LONDON CEMETERIES
SOUTH-EAST LONDON:
LONDON BOROUGH CEMETERIES
BEXLEY: http://tinyurl.com/lecuwu
Bexleyheath Cemetery, Banks Lane, Broadway, Bexleyheath (1879)
Burial Registers & indexes for Bexleyheath 1879-1943 on CD produced by NORTHWEST KENT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY: http://tinyurl.com/lq4f8y
Erith Cemetery, Brook Street, Erith (1894)
Burial Registers for Erith 1894-1962 on CD produced by NORTHWEST KENT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
Sidcup Cemetery, Foots Cray Lane, Sidcup (1912)
BROMLEY: http://tinyurl.com/m5ukux
Beckenham Cemetery (formerly Crystal Palace cemetery), Elmers End Road, Beckenham (1876)
Biggin Hill Cemetery, Kingsmead Road, Biggin Hill (1930)
Bromley Hill Cemetery, Bromley (1907)
Chislehurst Cemetery, Beaverwood Road, Chiselhurst (1912)
London Road Cemetery, Warner Road, Bromley (1877)
Plaistow Cemetery, Burnt Ash Lane, Bromley (1892)
St Luke's Cemetery, Magpie Hall Lane, Bromley (1894)
St Mary Cray Cemetery, Star Lane, Orpington (1884)
CROYDON: http://tinyurl.com/744clw
Croydon Cemetery, Mitcham Road, Croydon (1897)
Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Chelsham Road, Warlingham (1938)
Croydon Crematorium on line Book of Remembrance: http://tinyurl.com/koyfr4
Queens Road Cemetery, Croydon (1861)
WEST SURREY FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY- burial index on CD has coverage of Queens Road Cemetery between 1861-1865 http://tinyurl.com/kkdjm9
GREENWICH: http://tinyurl.com/c8tp3g
Charlton Cemetery, Cemetery Lane, SE7 (1864)
Eltham Cemetery, Crown Woods Way, SE9 (1935)
Greenwich Cemetery, Well Hall Road, SE9 (1856)
Plumstead Cemetery, Wickham Lane, SE2 (1890)
Woolwich Cemetery (Old), Kings Highway, SE18 (1856)
Woolwich Cemetery (New), Camdale Road, SE18 (1885)
LEWISHAM: http://tinyurl.com/22hbnc
Brockley Cemetery, (formerly Deptford cemetery) Ladywell Road, SE13 (1858)
Grove Park Cemetery, Marvels Road, SE12 (1935)
Hither Green Cemetery (formerly Lee cemetery), Verdant Lane, SE6 (1873)
Ladywell Cemetery (formerly Lewisham cemetery), Ladywell Road, SE13 (1858)
An online transcription of memorial inscriptions at Brockley and Ladywell cemeteries produced by NORTH WEST KENT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY: http://tinyurl.com/kkdyen
SOUTHWARK: http://tinyurl.com/kqbqwo
Camberwell Old Cemetery, Forest Hill Road, SE22 (1856)
Camberwell New Cemetery, Brenchley Gardens, SE22 (1927)
Honor Oak Crematorium, Brockley Way, SE23 (1939)
Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, SE15 (1840)
CEMETERY REGISTERS HELD AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES: http://tinyurl.com/m94pzt
Royal Hospital Cemetery (Navy), Chevening Road, East Greenwich, SE10 (1705)
South London Burial Ground, East Street, Walworth, SE17 (1819)
Southwark New Burial Ground, New Street, St John’s Horsleydown, Southwark (1821)
Some of these cemetery records deposited at The National Archives (series RG8) can be accessed at BMD REGISTERS.CO.UK: http://tinyurl.com/ngvqjc
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A GUIDE TO BURIALS IN THE LONDON AREA
PART 6
GREATER LONDON CEMETERIES
SOUTH-WEST LONDON:
INDEPENDENTLY MANAGED CEMETERIES
Brookwood Cemetery, Cemetery Pales, Woking, Surrey (1854) presently owned by BROOKWOOD CEMETERY: http://tinyurl.com/l482eq
Burial registers held at THE SURREY HISTORY CENTRE: http://tinyurl.com/nw68dp
LONDON BOROUGH CEMETERIES
KINGSTON: http://tinyurl.com/mfpugv
Kingston Cemetery, Bonner Hill Road, Kingston-upon-Thames (1855)
Surbiton Cemetery, Lower Marsh Lane, Kingston-upon-Thames (1915)
Database for Kingston cemetery records: http://tinyurl.com/kwqgfe
LAMBETH: http://tinyurl.com/bopcf
Lambeth Cemetery, Blackshaw Road, SW17 (1854)
Streatham Cemetery, Garratt Lane, SW17 (1893)
West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood Road, SE27 (1837)
A Cemetery database holding details of all reused graves in West Norwood Cemetery: http://tinyurl.com/mp6s6k
MERTON: http://tinyurl.com/nff4uk
Church Road Cemetery, Church Road, Mitcham (1883)
London Road Cemetery, London Road, Mitcham (1929)
Merton and Sutton Joint Cemetery, Garth Road, Morden (1947)
Wimbledon Cemetery, Gap Road, SW19 (1876)
RICHMOND: http://tinyurl.com/lknw47
Barnes Cemetery, Rocks Lane, Barnes Common, SW13 (1855)
Hampton Cemetery, Broad Lane, Hampton (1859)
Mortlake Crematorium, Kew Meadow Path, Richmond-upon-Thames (1939) administered jointly by Hammersmith and Fulham and Richmond: http://tinyurl.com/bwapt7
Old Mortlake Cemetery, South Worple Way, SW14 (1887)
Richmond Cemetery, Lower Grove Road, Richmond-upon-Thames (1894)
Teddington Cemetery, Shacklegate Lane, Teddington (1879)
Twickenham Cemetery, Hospital Bridge Road, Twickenham (1867)
Database for Richmond cemetery records: http://tinyurl.com/lzjp6z
SUTTON: http://tinyurl.com/nfyfj2
Bandon Hill Cemetery, Plough Lane, Beddington, (1899)
Cuddington Cemetery, Lindsay Road, Worcester Park (1902)
Sutton Cemetery, Alcorn Close, Sutton (1889)
WANDSWORTH: http://tinyurl.com/lcxopp
Battersea New Cemetery, (Morden Cemetery) Lower Morden Lane, SM4 (1892)
Putney Vale Cemetery, Stag Lane, SW14 (1891)
Putney Lower Common Cemetery, Mill Hill Road, SW13 (1855)
St Mary’s Cemetery, Battersea Rise, SW11, (1860)
Wandsworth Cemetery, Magdalen Road, SW18 (1878)
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