British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

New memorial unveiled in London to commemorate the 1943 Bethnal Green Tube Disaster  On 17 December 2017, a large crowd, including survivors and officials such as the Mayor of London , attended an unveiling of the Stairway to Heaven Memorial in Bethnal Green.  While this recent monument is the only official memorial to the Bethnal Gr een Tube Disaster , several of the victims are also remembered at their burial places in  Manor Park Cemetery and Crematorium , London E7 . The tube disaster is now known to be one of the worst British civilian tragedies of the war. On the night of the 3 March 1943 , at 8.15pm, an air siren rang sounded to warn the people of the East End to take shelter. Some sheltered in cages in their homes, but many thousands took the local underground station – an increasingly popular place to hide from the bombs. In the struggle to clamber down the   blackout   staircase into Bethnal Green tube, a middle-aged woman and her child f...

Deceased Online's latest release includes the records of one of London’s largest cemeteries: Manor Park Cemetery and Crematorium E7. Last week, we uploaded about a quarter of the burial and cremation records of East London’s magnificent Manor Park Cemetery to the database . This includes over 100,000 records from 1931 to 2010. For burials up to 26 February 1996, the details have been scanned from registers, but data from 27 February 1997 has been digitised only as there are no registers. Many of you have already been in touch to let us know that you have found your relatives buried there. You can find out more by downloading the burial register scan, examining the grave details of other occupants, or locating the specific grave by noting the grave reference number and then printing the digitised maps. If you are able to visit, the privately-owned Cemetery can be found not far from the 2012 Olympic Park.   As the nation recovered from the First World War, domestic li...