British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

This week I look at the full collection of burial and cremation records on Deceased Online from the historic city of Oxford By Hannah Johnston - Instagram, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81470779 In August 2018, Deceased Online added  almost 50,000  burial and cremation records from  the Oxford cemeteries of Botley, Rose Hill and Wolvercote,  from   Oxford City Council . In July 2019, r ecords for the fourth   cemetery,  Headington Cemetery,   were uploaded to the database .  Records from 1899 to 2007 are available to search and view, with burial and grave register scans, a grave section location map, and details of other burials in the grave. Headington Cemetery records    digital scans of all burial registers up to 2007  computerised data 2007-2016 maps showing the section in which the grave is located grave details for each of the graves and their occupants.  History of He...

This week I continue my series on  Deceased Online's  West Norwood Cemetery Collection with an introduction to the many celebrate individuals buried there after 1900. As the new century dawned, West Norwood saw the burial of John Lawson Johnston (1839-1900),  a meat supplier, who became a millionaire after inventing Bovril, a popular fluid beef extract drink of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was buried beneath a large marble monument in the form of a classical portico. Burial record entry of John Lawson Johnston (1839-1900) in the burial registers of West Norwood Cemetery, digitsed on Deceased Online The following year,  civil engineer,   Richard Henry Brunton  (1841-1901) , was buried. Brunton  designed lighthouses, bridges, roads and harbours in Japan. In honour of this, his new headstone was erected by the Yokohama Chamber of Commerce.  Others buried in West Norwood in the following years include Sir A...

West Norwood Cemetery - the Victorian era   This week, I take a deeper look at the Victorian records of  Deceased Online's  new  West Norwood Cemetery Collection Above: Sir Henry Doulton's Grade II Listed mausoleum Like the other Magnificent Seven cemeteries, West Norwood is celebrated for its Victorian funerary architecture, particularly those of the gothic tradition, and its peaceful garden space and wildlife in a city environment. This week's post highlights some of the lives of the Victorians buried in the south London site. The Victorian records for this site o n  Deceased Online  cover 1837 to 1901. During this period, some of the city's most well-known residents were buried there. Isabella Beeton,  née  Mayson, photographed in about 1854 Mrs ISABELLA MARY BEETON (1836-1865)  As featured in last week's post, one of the most celebrated inhabitants of West Norwood is cookery writer, Mrs Beeton. Tragically,...

Deceased Online adds burial records for the magnificent  West Norwood Cemetery in south London   We are very excited to announce the release of records for West Norwood Cemetery , one of London’s 'Magnificent Seven'. A total of 165,000 records have been uploaded to the   database   of this significant collection, which dates from 1837 to 2005.  This beautiful cemetery, one of the 'Magnificent Seven' Victorian cemeteries, was founded in 1836 and is home to a great many listed monuments. The cemetery maintains a place in the English Heritage National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, and is recognised as a site of nature conservation value within Lambeth. West Norwood's  original burial registers are held (?at the cemetery itself and at)  but are available online only through   Deceased Online  information showing the other occupants of the grave, and maps showing the grave's approximate location in the cemetery. This p...

The eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 has been commemorated this week on its hundredth anniversary. This week's post takes a look at some of the most notable burials in our collection from the First World War. Silvertown Explosion 1917 (West Ham Cemetery, London E7) The  Millennium Mills  in the aftermath of the  Silvertown explosion  - Avery, John, 1917-01-25 ( By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28065575 ) One of the worst non-military disasters of the First World War took place near the cemetery in Silvertown, East London.  On 19 January 1917, the largest explosion ever to occur in the UK ripped through the former Brunner Mond factory in Silvertown. It had been turned over to munitions production near the beginning of the war, and now manufactured highly unstable TNT. The blast was heard as far away as Southampton and Norwich. A devastating firestorm spread beyond the factory into neighbour...