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Kensal Green Cemetery

Records for the second ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemetery in the Deceased Online database will be released on Boxing Day We are delighted to announce, just in time for Christmas, that all cremation and burial records from 1833 to 1901 for Kensal Green Cemetery will be launched on the database this week. Later records will be available in the New Year. When all 340,000 records are on the site (by early February), there will be over 3 million individual burial and cremation records for London available on Deceased Online representing approximately 8 million data items. The Kensal Green records include those of the West London Crematorium (est. 1939), which is located in the grounds of the Cemetery. The Main Entrance to Kensal Green Cemetery 1833-1860 was a busy time for this part of West London and the new Kensal Green Cemetery, which was the first commercial burial ground in London. Laid out between the Harrow Road and the Regent’s Canal in 1832, the cemetery w