Hi Frances,
Thanks for your help.......I had a look at the site......£10 just to ask for a grave number/location seems a bit steep.....I understand the good work that the Friends of Highgate Cemetary are doing, so I will give it some thought.
Once again, thanks for your help.
Joe
Hello,
You're right it's expensive, especially when you factor in use of camera. There is an alternative which I have used. It is Camden Library, Archive and Study Centre in Theobald's Road, something like no 40 Theobald's Rd. It is opposite the back of Gray's Inn, if that helps. Anyway on the upper floor - for the archives they keep microfiches of everyone buried in Highgate cemetary, along with a map so that once you locate your ancestor with burial plot number and square, you can pinpoint the grave on the map.
They are very helpful at the library. I went in knowing the square number of my grandmother's grandmother and found my ancestor and her husband. I then found other relatives, unmarried daughters in the same plot as well as a married son and his wife in another plot. The librarian who was so helpful said it was in fact they who had handed over copies of microfiches to the Friends of Highgate Cemetery!! So have no qualms about using this free method of finding out where graves are. There is also a wealth of detail to be uncovered, eg when the grave was bought, for how much, who it inherited by etc.
I don't know if any other London cemeteries also have a nearby library which does anything similar. I have relatives in St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, but when I visited it, although helpful (and free!) it was all paper-based. Large volumes of burial entries to be looked at in a tiny reception area.
Hope it all helps and gets to you before you spend too much - Richard
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