British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

This week we continue our series looking at epitaphs - those final words that help to immortalize our forebears in cemeteries.    Above: a painting of Eliot by François D'Albert Durade, and her headstone Numerous literary giants can be found in the burial and cremation registers on the  Deceased Online website . One of the famous literary epitaphs is that of George Eliot in Highgate Cemetery , north London: "Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence" Here lies the body of "George Eliot" Mary Ann Cross George Eliot   (1819 to 1880),  o ne of the most prominent writers of the Victorian era,  was buried in Highgate East Cemetery. Although she was baptised "Mary-Anne Evans", the novelist's later married name of Mary Ann Cross is inscribed on her headstone below that of her pen-name. Born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, Eliot left home after her father's death in 1849, and after travelling in Europe, she settled in Lond

In last week's post, I looked at the early years of the cemetery after its opening in 1833. Below I explore the lives of some of the famous Victorians who were buried at Kensal Green between 1860 and 1900. The burial records for all have been digitized on the Deceased Online database . The area around the cemetery altered from the 1860s as Kensal New Town was developed. North Kensington quickly became home to large numbers of working-class people, with several households living in each of the newly built terraced properties. Slum-dwellers were buried not far from aristocrats and celebrities in Kensington's modern cemetery. A strong literary connection to Kensal Green developed in this period, with its grounds becoming the resting places of some the nineteenth century's most celebrated authors. William Makepeace Thackeray , Anthony Trollope and Wilkie Collins are three of the most significant British authors of the Victorian age. Each of them created complex c