British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

Continuing our coverage of cemeteries in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, this week we focus on Eltham Cemetery Eltham Cemetery and Crematorium (or ‘Falconwood’) is relatively modern, with the cemetery section having opened in 1935. Darren Beach’s excellent pocket-sized London Cemeteries book [1] describes it as “one of London’s flattest cemeteries, especially compared with the rolling hills of Greenwich. Given the terrain, it’s not surprisingly based on a grid pattern, with trees only along the paths and edges.” Eltham Chapel The cemetery features some interesting memorials and Beach highlights a “half-size figure of a man dressed in flying gear commemorating an airman killed in 1938. It’s not easy to miss – his outfit looks more like a post-apocalyptic radioactivity suit than anything else.” Memorial to L.A/C. Ernest Francis Bennett, who lost his life when flying solo from the No 12 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School, Prestwick The wreckage of th...

Well done to those who recognized Greenwich Cemetery from the teasers on our Twitter and Facebook pages! Greenwich and Eltham Cemeteries are both managed by the Royal London Borough of Greenwich. The collection includes all data, comprising around 108,000 burials, with scans of burial registers, grave details (i.e. the details of all those buried in each grave), cemetery grave location maps and some memorial and headstone photos to follow shortly. The Council's cremation records (Eltham Crematorium, 202,000 mostly with register scans) are already on the database . We'll be revealing more about Eltham in next week's blog. Later this autumn, we will be adding the Council's other three cemeteries: Charlton, Plumstead, and Woolwich. Once all these cemeteries’ data is on the website, the total records covered for Greenwich Council will number nearly more than half a million. Greenwich Cemetery War Memorial. Familiar London landmarks, like the Gherk...