British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

Deceased Online is excited to announce  the beginning of a large project with  the release of memorial photographs from 90 Norfolk cemeteries on the database  Above: headstones around the ruins of a church at Tunstall Deceased Online  has this week begun uploading images to its website from a  vast photography collection of  Norfolk cemeteries   taken by Norfolk resident, Louise Cocker .  The first set of images includes images from 90 cemeteries and churchyards. This is a total of over 10,000 photographs. The photographs exist as a valuable record of headstones and memorials that are constantly being eroded by weather and time. Louise has been photographing the headstones and memorials of Norfolk with her mother, Angela, since 2009. She told us, "It's something I am very passionate about as I think it is important for future generations to be able to see where their ancestors are buried."  Above: many Vict...

This week's post examines the different types of records you can find in the Deceased Online database. This blog should help you understand the sorts of records we include and some we don't. Primarily, Deceased Online specializes in burial and cremation records and especially statutory records from local councils across the UK. There is no other website which includes these types of records on a national basis. 1. Are all cemetery records held by local authorities? No. Cemeteries in Britain may be owned and managed by councils or may be in the hands of a private or charity organisation. Our database holds information about burial/cremation records and other records held by local authorities along with private cemeteries and crematoria and other records from local and national archives. Most of the burial records currently on our database are held by local councils. These include cemeteries in the following local authorities: Wakefield Metropolitan Borough, West Y...