A GUIDE TO BURIALS IN THE LONDON AREA
Records of London burials can be difficult to trace. Surviving parish and cemetery burial registers are held in different locations and there is no central index. Some records are online, many are not.
The guide is divided into the following sections
CIVIL REGISTRATION AND CHURCH OF ENGLAND PARISHES (PAGE 1)
ANGLICAN CHURCH BURIAL REGISTERS BACKGROUND INFORMATION (PAGE 1)
ANGLICAN CHURCH BURIAL REGISTERS DEPOSITED IN RECORD OFFICES (PAGE 1)
UNDEPOSITED ANGLICAN REGISTERS (PAGE 1)
ONLINE SOURCES FOR ANGLICAN CHURCH BURIAL REGISTERS (PAGE 1)
INDIVIDUAL PARISH CHURCH BURIALS ONLINE (PAGE 1)
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS ONLINE (PAGE 1)
OTHER USEFUL WEBSITES (PAGE 1)
FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETIES AND PUBLICATIONS (PAGE 2)
NON-CONFORMIST BURIAL GROUND REGISTERS HELD AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND ONLINE (PAGE 2)
NONCONFORMIST BURIAL REGISTERS DEPOSITED IN LOCAL ARCHIVES (PAGE 2)
ROMAN CATHOLIC REGISTERS (PAGE 2)
JEWISH CEMETERY REGISTERS (PAGE 2)
CIVIC CEMETERIES BACKGROUND INFORMATION (PAGE 2)
THE GEOGRAPHY OF LONDON - LOCAL AUTHORITY ADMINISTRATION IN LONDON (PAGE 2)
CIVIC CEMETERIES LISTED BY LONDON BOROUGHS (PAGE 2-4)
WHO MIGHT BE MISSING FROM CHURCH OF ENGLAND BURIAL REGISTERS (PAGE 4)
Click on any of the blue underlined hyperlinks in the guide to view the information you are interested in.CIVIL REGISTRATION AND CHURCH OF ENGLAND PARISHES
Civil registration commenced on 1st July 1837. Over the years with the growth and movement of the population the civil registration districts have altered.
TOWER HAMLETS local registrar’s office illustrates this point by showing a timeline of the changes to registration districts and sub-districts now within its area.
REGISTRATION DISTRICTS IN LONDON up to 1965 and from
1965–1974 on the Genuki website tracks the changes made up to 31st March 1974 and also has a very useful downloadable place name index which includes the registration district each place was registered in.
ENGLAND JURISDICTIONS FOR 1851 is a map of the counties of England produced by Family Search. The map shows various levels of county division including parish and civil registration districts. The parish map shows all the ecclesiastical parishes (Church of England) in each county.
As London grew it absorbed areas of the surrounding counties. Between 1889 and 1965 practically all of Middlesex, parts of north Kent and Surrey and west Essex became part of the County of London and later Greater London.
FAMILY SEARCH aims to have information on each Church of England (or Anglican) Church and its parish (the information is still being added to) in each historic county.
CITY OF LONDON COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY OF ESSEX COUNTY OF KENT COUNTY OF SURREY GENUKI is also a useful website for information about individual parishes.
Civil registration districts should not to be confused with church parishes of the same name since all registration districts covered wider areas and contained many churches and places.
LONDON/SURREY REGISTRATION DISTRICTS/CHURCHES attempts to detail the Anglican churches (only) found in 36 London Registration Districts.
Westminster Archives
GUIDE on Anglican Churches and which civil registration districts of Westminster they were in.