British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

This week I catch up with Deceased Online's new collections and summarize what's currently available to help locate ancestors who died in London View of London from Greenwich Cemetery, one of the London cemeteries featured in the Deceased Online database After the 1830s, when my 3x great grandparents, Edward Barnes and Mary Ashley , arrived in the capital, hundreds of members of my family have been born in London, settled there or passed through. Millions of us around the world have at least one ancestor who died in London between the 18th century and today. Although most of Deceased Online 's London collections date from the 19th and 20th centuries, there are a number of records from the 18th century, including that of the Robinson Crusoe author Daniel Defoe , who was buried in Bunhill Hill Fields in 1731. Daniel Defoe was buried at Bunhill Fields in the heart of London Researching London ancestors is complicated by the changing nature of its administrative ...

This week the Deceased Online database adds burial records for two more Hertfordshire cemeteries. In this post, I look at these new registers as well as those of other burial grounds in the Hertfordshire Collection.   Deceased Online 's exclusive Hertfordshire Collection now includes ten cemeteries, dating back to 1801. Across the ten cemeteries there are over 200,000 records for more than 90,000 individual names and burials. The Hertfordshire records can be found on the website in the "East of England" region drop-down box. Hertfordshire borders north London and you may find, like me, that your Hertfordshire ancestors travelled back and forth to work in the capital.  Row of trees at Hatfield Hyde Cemetery (c) Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council The latest additions are Welwyn Hatfield Lawn and Hatfield Hyde Cemeteries . Their records of original registers, grave details and cemetery section maps come from Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council . The registers for Hat...