British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

Sad loss of well-loved and historic tree Sadly, Highgate Cemetery has reported the loss of, "its great old Cedar of Lebanon " The beloved tree predates the cemetery, having been planted more than 50 years before the  London Cemetery Company began its  layout began in 1836.   It is not known exactly how old the Cedar was, but it was believed to be at least 250 years   Highgate Cemetery’s layout on seventeen acres of the former Ashurst Estate by Highgate Village,  which was itself taken down to allow for the building of  St Michael's Church, Highgate  in 1830.  The areas lie on a steep hillside, facing the centre of London, and winding down Swain’s Lane past Waterlow Park towards Hampstead Heath, Dartmouth Park and Kentish Town. Garden designer,  David Ramsey , created exotic, formal planting.  Stephen Geary , the architect, and surveyor,  James Bunstone Bunning  designed the stunning monuments and chapels of what soon ...

Modern burial ideas are drawing on experiences of the past On 16 October 2018, the Chief Executive of the  Friends of Highgate Cemetery 's Dr Ian Dungavell was interviewed on  BBC Radio London's Vanessa Feltz programme  to discuss ideas to create more burial space. The programme discussed how to find room for future generations of Londoners while maintaining all that is special about the cemetery. Surprisingly, this is not a new concept. Before the 19th century, particularly during the medieval period, social norms allowed for  old graves to be exhumed in order that space would be freed for new burials. The remains were transferred to charnel houses (bone stores). Examples of these can be found across the country, such as in Spitalfields, London .  The news was also reported in The Telegraph  with a warning that there will be no space for full-sized graves (and thus coffin burials) by 2024. Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust have completed a...

This week Deceased Online adds burial records for the magnificent  Highgate Cemetery in north London   We are very excited to announce the release of records for Highgate Cemetery , one of London’s 'Magnificent Seven'. A total of 160,000 records have been uploaded to the database  of this significant collection, which dates from 1839 to 2010. They include coverage of the first three decades: 1840 to the early 1870s, with a gap in the records from 1863 to 1865. Highgate’s original burial registers are held at the cemetery itself and at Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre in Holborn but are available online only through   Deceased Online .  Pages from the Highgate Cemetery Register showing burials from 1839-1843 History Like the other ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemeteries, Highgate Cemetery is world-renowned, contains hundreds of notable burials, has several listed monuments, and provides a haven to inner-city wildlife. EnglishHeritag...