British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

  Remembering Women in our Database for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November has been declared the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women by the United Nations. Sadly, history contains many examples of violence against women, and our database is no exception. As the United Nations describes: Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most widespread,  persistent and devastating human rights violations in our world today  r emains largely unreported due to the impunity, silence, stigma  and shame surrounding it. In general terms, it manifests itself in  physical, sexual and psychological forms. To further clarify, the  Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women   issued by the UN General Assembly in 1993, defines violence  against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, ...

In honour of Black History Month , Camden Local Studies and Archives  Centre  is holding a special event honouring Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who is buried in Bandon Cemetery Samuel Coleridge-Taylor On Thursday 31 st  October at 7.15pm, Camden Archives and Local History Centre hosts a talk with music for Black History Month by Richard Gordon-Smith (composer) and Martin Anthony Burrage (violin, piano) of the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation. The venue is significant as it is located in the street where the celebrated composer was born. Although he was born in Holborn, now in the north London borough of Camden, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's was buried in Bandon Hill and his record can be found in Deceased Online's South London Collection.  Search the database for the full set of burial records for  Bandon Hill Cemetery , Wallington , in the  London Borough of Sutton . Bandon Hill is situated in Plough Lane, Wallington SM6 8JQ and is a working cemete...

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 ...