British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

As most of the UK is covered in snow today thanks to the 'Beast from the East', this week's blog focuses on the beauty of some of Highgate Cemetery in winter. View from the South Entrance to the Cemetery Snow settled on a fallen crucifix Snow remains settled on the ground but not on the headstones Do you have any photos of local cemeteries covered in snow? Are any in the Deceased Online database? Please share your images with us on Facebook or  Twitter  @deceasedonline!

Finding Suffragettes in the Deceased Online Database Today, Tuesday 6th February 2018 , marks 100 years since the Representation of the People Act received royal assent. The passing of this Act of Parliament reformed the British and Irish electoral system, enabling almost all men and some 8.4 million women to vote in national elections. Emmeline Pankhurst c.1913 (1) Although single and widowed female ratepayers had been able t o vote in local municipal elections since 1869 (married ratepayers 1869-1872), the struggle for to extend the franchise to women nationally was hard fought. After John Stuart Mill MP's failed attempt at amending the Reform Act 1866 with the   presentation of the first mass women's suffrage petition to the House of Commons on 7 June  1866, women in the capital grouped together to form the London Society for Women's Suffrage . The movement grew across Britain, and in   1872 , women formed the National Society for Women's Suffrag...

New memorial unveiled in London to commemorate the 1943 Bethnal Green Tube Disaster  On 17 December 2017, a large crowd, including survivors and officials such as the Mayor of London , attended an unveiling of the Stairway to Heaven Memorial in Bethnal Green.  While this recent monument is the only official memorial to the Bethnal Gr een Tube Disaster , several of the victims are also remembered at their burial places in  Manor Park Cemetery and Crematorium , London E7 . The tube disaster is now known to be one of the worst British civilian tragedies of the war. On the night of the 3 March 1943 , at 8.15pm, an air siren rang sounded to warn the people of the East End to take shelter. Some sheltered in cages in their homes, but many thousands took the local underground station – an increasingly popular place to hide from the bombs. In the struggle to clamber down the   blackout   staircase into Bethnal Green tube, a middle-aged woman and her child f...

Deceased Online looks forward to an exciting 2018 Happy New Year to all readers of this blog! 2017 was an eventful year for Deceased Online with diverse additions of cremation and burial records to the  Deceased Online database  and this year we are looking forward to  even  more. We are pleased to have ready for release the burial and cremation data of more than 6 million people over the next 12 months, including: several cities the largest cemetery in the UK (covering 460 acres) the 5th of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries on Deceased Online - West Norwood Cemetery & Crematorium 1 million records from the North West and Manchester area. Deceased Online has millions of new records from UK burial and cremation authorities and The National Archives in the pipeline for this year. To ensure you don't miss any news,   register on the website (for free) and leave the emails option box  un-ticked  to receive notification automatically w...

This week's post was inspired by the Finnish ritual of visiting cemeteries at Christmas. It may not be everyone's idea of a perfect Christmas, but for religious and non-churchgoing Finns, taking candles to place on family graves on the 24th December is part of their annual tradition. Since the 1920s when candles became affordable, many Finns (up to around 75%  of Finnish families) will light the beginning of the Christmas period for their deceased relatives. Snow lying crisp and even in Highgate Cemetery, London. You can search the cemetery's registers on the Deceased Online database  Some take candles to a local cemetery where they do not have relatives - often to enjoy the peaceful, reflective experience of the candlelit graveyard. In Finland, as with many of the cemeteries that feature in the collections of Deceased Online , graveyards are respected as places of calm for the living. Emphasis is placed on nurturing the trees and plants surrounding memorials. T...

This week's post explores the life and family of First World War Victoria Cross hero, Walter Napleton Stone (1891-1917), who was commemorated recently at a special ceremony in Lewisham  Politicians, relatives and local residents gathered in Lewisham High Street on 30 November 2017 to mark the unveiling of a paving stone in the name of former Blackheath resident, Captain Walter Napleton Stone VC .   The paving stone is one of 628 specially commissioned stones which are being laid in the home areas of each of the Victoria Cross recipients of the Great War. The date of 30 November commemorates the day Walter Stone was killed on the Western Front, at the Battle of Cambrai . Like many killed in action between 1914 and 1918, the grave of Walter Stone has not been found. He is remembered on a number of memorials, including the Cambrai Memorial to the Missing, the parish war memorial Shrewsbury's St Mary's Church, and on the Lewisham Shopping Centre mural.  Althoug...

Examining the  cremation records  of West Norwood and Lambeth Crematoria   With last week's launch of West Norwood and Lambeth crematoria records on the Deceased Online database , more of us can now find online ancestors who lived and/or died in the modern borough of Lambeth. Try searching the database if you are researching 20th-ce ntury individuals from any of the following parts of south London: Brixton Brixton Hill Clapham Clapham Park Crystal Palace Gipsy Hill Herne Hill Kennington Lambeth Loughborough Junction Balham Oval Stockwell Streatham Streatham Hill Tulse Hill Vauxhall Waterloo West Dulwich .  As discussed in last week's blog , West Norwood Crematorium  is located on the site of one of the  'Magnificent Seven', West Norwood Cemetery  in south London. This cemetery lies close to Tulse Hill, Dulwich, Streatham, and Brockwell Park. Since it opened in 1916, the crematorium has served a wide spectrum of south ...