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Remembering the Poor of Southwark and Camberwell

This week Deceased Online uploaded a new collection for Camberwell Old and New Cemeteries. Inspired by a memorial in the New Cemetery, in this post I explore how the online database can help locate burial places of those interred in paupers' graves. Like me, you may have ancestors who were buried in common graves . These were often referred to as "paupers' graves" as they were the resting places of those whose loved ones could not afford to pay for a burial and headstone. Many had no loved ones at all.    Deceased Online this week added burial records for Camberwell Old Cemetery and Camberwell New Cemetery . Like Nunhead Cemetery , these burial grounds lies in the modern London Borough of Southwark . The use of Southwark place names has changed over the years. Parts of Camberwell on an 1881 census entry, for example, may be known as Peckham today.  Southwark was a highly populous area in the Victorian and early 20th centuries. The three cemeteries that are...