British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

This week we look at the last words that remember our ancestors by examining epitaphs in burial grounds.  The grave of In Loving Memory of Alice Freestone in Alby (St Ethelbert) Churchyard, Norfolk. Her epitaph describes her as, "A Dear Wife and Mother" and "Worthy of Remembrance". According to the Oxford Dictionary , epitaphs are, "words that are written or said about a dead person, especially words on a gravestone." The Deceased Online website includes photographs of graves and memorials, as well as digital scans of cremation and burial registers.  Photographs, such as those from our Norfolk Collection , can give you an insight into the character of the deceased. They also provide us with essential genealogical information, such as the names of relatives. Among our records are some fascinating memorials and epitaphs. The Londonist website wrote an interesting post on  Brompton Cemetery , whose burial registers you can search in our database . The hea...

This week I catch up with Deceased Online's new collections and summarize what's currently available to help locate ancestors who died in Norfolk Above: headstones around the ruins of a church at Tunstall My personal Norfolk family history stretches back centuries.  The surnames in this branch of my tree include  Pymer, Oxorough, Betts, and Feetham - names common in this region in  the Middle Ages when the county grew rich f rom the textile trade.  Bordering Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, this East Anglian county was one of the most highly populated and prosperous parts of England in the Middle Ages. By the end of the 16th century, its cathedral city of Norwich was the second largest in England. Norfolk's economic significance was already in decline by the time of the Industrial Revolution in which it played little part. Railwa ys arrived late. The c ounty remains largely rural, with many of its churches and historic buildings well-preserved.  During ...