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 ...

Horatia Nelson Ward (29 January 1801- 6 March 1881) Horatia Nelson kneeling before her father's tomb, by William Owen (after 1807), (c) Wikimedia Commons: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14358.html We hope you have found some of your ancestors in the recent releases from Deceased Online . We were interested to find that the latest batch of records from the London Borough of Harrow includes the grave details of Horatia Nelson Ward. Horatia, the illegitimate daughter of Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton, was buried at Paines Lane Cemetery (or the Old Cemetery, Paines Lane), Pinner in Middlesex on 11 March 1881. Burial Register Scan from Deceased Online Horatia had an unconventional start to life, being born at the home of her mother’s husband, Sir William Hamilton, in Piccadilly, London. As both her parents were married to other people, they had their daughter christened as “Horatia Nelson Thompson”, but later adopted her. Neverth...