British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

In our latest email, we celebrated Artists in the Deceased Online database. The text of the email is as follows . . . Norwich City's Rosary Cemetery , published two weeks ago on  www.deceasedonline.com , provides the final resting place of a number of members of the Norwich School of Painters. James Stark (1794 to 1859) , an English landscape painter, was a leading member of the group. In 1828 he became the vice-president of the Norwich Society for Artists , and went on to become their president in the following year. He enjoyed a successful career in both Norfolk and London.   Above: "The Forest Oak" (1843) by James Stark John Thirtle (1777 to 1839) , another of Norwich's successful painters, also rests in Rosary Cemetery . Thirtle was a leading member of the Norwich School of Painters , and his paintings are generally considered to be outstanding examples of historical watercolours. Sadly, a lifelong battle against tuberculosis meant he produced relatively...

Continuing our coverage of cemeteries in Norwich City, this week we focus on Earlham Grave of Erminio William Louis Marchesi in Earlham Cemetery (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_grave_of_Louis_Marchesi.JPG)  One of the most well-known names in Earlham Cemetery's burial registers is that of  Erminio William Louis Marchesi  (19 January 1898 – 10 December 1968) .  Born in Norfolk on 19 January 1898, Marchesi was named after his father, Swiss immigrant, Erminio Marchesi, but was known by his third forename of Louis. The young Louis grew up in Norwich, where his father had run the city's first Swiss restaurant in Prince of Wales Road since 1896. Louis' mother was of Irish heritage. After serving in the First World War, Louis returned to life in Norwich. There he became a member of the Rotary Club. In  1926, a fter hearing a radio speech by the Prince of Wales urging young Britons to "sit round table (Round Table) adopt an idea, adapt it and impro...

Burial records for Rosary and Earlham Cemeteries, both owned and run by  Norwich City Council , have just been published on  www.deceasedonline.com . Above: Both Norwich cemeteries contain many beautiful and historic memorials. Rosary Cemetery was established by non-conformist minister Thomas Drummond in 1819, and was the UK's first non-denominational burial ground. In 2010, this beautiful, historic cemetery was granted Grade II* listed status. Train driver, John Prior , and fireman, James Light , are both buried in Rosary Cemetery after being killed in the 1874 Thorpe rail accident at Thorpe St Andrew in Norfolk, in which the 20:40 mail train from Yarmouth and the 17:00 express from London collided head-on whilst travelling on a single-track line between Norwich and Brundall. In total the driver and firemen of both trains and 21 passengers were killed, and many more seriously injured. After the horrific accident, as a preventative measure, engineer Edward Tyler de...