Deceased Online is very pleased to announce that 71,100 of the records for renowned City of London cemetery, Bunhill Fields, are now online Thanks to our partnership with the UK National Archives at Kew, we have digitised their entire collection of Bunhill burial records which covers 1704 to 1854. The collection includes some of Britain's most celebrated nonconformists, such as literary giants Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) , the hymn writer, Isaac Watts (1674-1748) , and the poet William Blake (1757-1827) . In this post, I look at the history of the cemetery up to 1800. Bunhill Fields is one of the oldest nonconformist cemeteries in London, dating from 1665 in the reign of King Charles II. The current Grade I listed graveyard lies between the bustling City Road and Bunhill Row, but was originally part of the much larger Quaker Gardens . This land was the first freehold property owned by Quakers in England. Across the City Road from the burial ground is Wesley's House , th...