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Cheshire East Collection: Crewe Railway Ancestors

This week I look deeper into Deceased Online's latest release of the Cheshire East Collection (1861-2015), exploring why Crewe's history lies at the heart of England's railway past. As I revealed in last week's post, the Cheshire East Collection includes the records of six cemeteries and crematoria in the Crewe area of the county.. There are now  130,000 records from the  Crewe  office  available on  www.deceasedonline.com . The oldest are for the cemeteries of Coppenhall (dating from 1861), Nantwich (1870) and Crewe (1872). Anyone with ancestors buried at Nantwich should be aware that some of the older entries in the original registers of this cemetery are duplicates, for which correct grave details may be unobtainable.   The Cheshire East records comprise digital scans of all burial registers or cremation indexes and grave details for each of the graves and their occupants. Records for the Macclesfield area have been digitised and will be r...

New Collection: Cheshire East

More records for county of  Cheshire as Cheshire East Collection (1861-2015) is added to the Deceased Online database. Coppenhall Cemetery, Cheshire As someone who grew in Lancashire, I am delighted that Deceased Online has extended its North West England collection with the addition of burial and cremation records from neighbouring  Cheshire East .  Deceased Online  has recently digitised burial and cremation data for the south part of the Cheshire East Council area, managed by Orbitas   Bereavement Services. This covers the following sites:  Congleton Cemetery (500 records) 2004 - 2015 Coppenhall Cemetery (10,400 records) 1861 - 2015 Crewe Cemetery (51,750 records) 1872 - 2015 Nantwich Cemetery (11,150 records) 1870 - 2015 Sandbach Cemetery (3,950 records) 1935 - 2015 Weston Cemetery (1,150 records) 1908 - 2015 Crewe Crematorium (52,100 records) 1937 - 2009 (+ 1 record from 1945) History The oldest records in this collection com...