British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

This week, I'm looking at some of Deceased Online's less-known datasets, focusing on Kettering, Corby and Rushden in the county of Northamptonshire John Speed's map of Northamptonshire c.1676 There are a total of 12 cemeteries and 1 crematorium in Deceased Online 's Northamptonshire collection. All can be searched on the website in the UK records section, under "East Midlands" in the drop-down menu . Being landlocked, Northamptonshire is an interesting region to have ancestors. Many inhabitants moved back and forth to neighbouring counties. Northamptonshire is unusual in sharing borders with nine other counties: Leicestershire, Rutland, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, the former county of Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. The county is largely rural, although heavy industry predominated in Corby from the 1930s. During the 19th and 20th centuries, Northamptonshire as a whole was most celebrated for its manufact...

We're really excited about this week's addition of cemetery records from North Yorkshire This week over half of the burial records for Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council will be added to the Deceased Online database . This is the first area for us from North Yorkshire, and the second Yorkshire council (after Wakefield , West Yorkshire) on the website. Redcar and Cleveland is located on the beautiful north east coastline. Although largely rural, the area has a strong mining history. Other historical highlights of the area are the ruined Augustinian Gisborough Priory , Kirkleatham Museum , Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum , Winkies Castle , the bronze age Eston Nab hill fort, and the Georgian mansion and home to the Pennyman family, Ormesby Hall . Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council manages eight cemeteries completely. We uploaded four of these this week:   Boosbeck                ...