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 ...

Searching for South London Surrey ancestors? Bandon Hill Cemetery, Wallington joins the Sutton and Merton Collections in the Deceased Online database. Bandon Hill Cemetery, Wallington Last week  Deceased Online  supplemented its South London Collection with the full set of burial records for  Bandon Hill Cemetery , Wallington , in the  London Borough of Sutton . As the cemetery is jointly run by the London Boroughs of Sutton and Croydon , it is worth investigating if any of your relatives died in either of those areas. Bandon Hill is situated in Plough Lane, Wallington SM6 8JQ and is a working cemetery. However, today burial rights are only given for reclaimed graves where burial space remains but has not been used for 75 years. In 1900, Croydon Rural District Council opened the Cemetery in grounds of approximately 6 1/4 hectares. The records in the Deceased Online database date from 7 March 1900 and go up to 2012 . The records cover more than 30,000 bu...

This week I look further into the latest South London additions to the database A few days ago, all the burial records for the two cemeteries of the London Borough of Sutton were added to the Deceased Online database . These are for Sutton Cemetery and Cuddington Cemetery . The borough of Sutton is a leafy suburban area on the southernmost edge of Outer London. Bordering the London boroughs of Kingston, Merton and Croydon, Sutton was formerly part of the historic county of Surrey. Research into ancestors who lived in area can be followed up at Sutton Archives and Local Studies . The Chapel at Sutton Cemetery Sutton Cemetery lies off Oldfields Road SM3 9PX and is the larger of the two. The issue of whether there should be a municipal cemetery in Sutton was controversial as recently as the 1880s. The Local Government Board discussed the matter heatedly in 1886. One concern was that graves would be dug into chalk that lay at a higher level than the wells of the South Metropolit...