Fascinating!
From the same workhouse register of burials.
Note the change in
1849 regarding burials paid for by the parish.
From being buried at "The Lock", to buried at
Victoria Park Cemeteryhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3NY-MH1N?i=422&cat=1327715As far as I know, the earliest surviving burial registers, or records of burials!, for VPC are from 1853.
Probably there were burials there back in 1847, it was certainly used later by some Southwark folk (in addition to the St George workhouse cases!)
So that might be one possibility, as well as any more local alternatives.
"The Lock" is also interesting. Those workhouse burials there are found in the St George the Martyr burial registers, so was it an additional burial ground for the parish?
See also St George the Martyr in The London Burial Grounds
http://www.burial.magic-nation.co.uk/bgstgeorgemartyr.htmAdded!
It's all in the newspapers, well one or two of them!
Daily News, 26 Oct 1849
INTRAMURAL INTERMENTS AND SUPPLY OF WATER IN SOUTHWARK. A public vestry of the inhabitants of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, took place last evening, at the Vestry-hall, to consider the necessary steps for providing for the burials of the poor..
Mr. DAY, the vestry clerk, read the report of a committee, appointed on the 20th ult.,
to make arrangements for the interment of the poor, in consequence of the Board of Health having made an order for the closing of the Lock burial-ground and of the parish churchyard. They had ascertained that the different cemetery companies would bury at the undermentioned charges...
Upon this information the committee had unanimously resolved that it was desirable to accept the terms offered by the Victoria Park Cemetery Company, for the burial of the poor persons who might die in the parish; and they desired, in the event of the guardians of the poor adopting the same place of interment for adult paupers, to co-operate with them in making such arrangements as might best conduce to the decent and economical burial of the dead. In consequence of his reasonable charge, the vestry was recommended to vote a sum annually to the present rector,clerk, and sexton, in lieu of the fees hitherto received by them, based on the average of the last four years. The committee had directed the Lock burial-ground to be at closed on and after Friday the 26th instant (this day), and had given the guardians of the poor notice accordingly....
The Victoria Park charges were adults 7 shillings, children under 10 years, 5 shillings, under 5 years, 3 shillings.
