A deeper look at the Victorian records of Deceased Online's new Highgate Cemetery Collection Some of the Victorian monuments and headstones in Highgate Cemetery Like the other Magnificent Seven cemeteries, Highgate is celebrated for its Victorian funerary architecture, particularly those of the gothic tradition. This week's post highlights some of the lives of the Victorians buried in the north London site. The Victorian records on Deceased Online cover 1839 to the early 1870s, with a gap between 1863 to 1865. The first burial took place in 1839 in what is now known as the West Cemetery. Fifteen years later, i n 1854, the London Cemetery Company sought to expand the burial ground by purchasing the area opposite the cemetery, across Swain's Lane, that now forms the East Cemetery. The Terrace Catacombs are located at the highest point of Highgate's West Cemetery Some of the most identifiably Victorian of the monuments and headstones lie in the ...