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== Online Resources ==
<br>Only a fraction of London's monumental inscriptions survive today.<ref>Cliff Webb, ''My Ancestors were Londoners: A Guide to London Sources for Family Historians'' (London: Society of Genealogists, 2009), 22.</ref> It can be helpful to search surveys of church cemeteries made in the past, when more gravestones were intact, and before churches were demolished.  
[https://www.archive.org/details/churchyardinscri00rush ''The Churchyard Inscriptions of the City of London''] (1910) is available online.  
 
*[http://www.deceasedonline.com/ Deceased Online]. Includes London Borough of Brent, London Borough of Camden, London Borough of Havering, London Borough of Islington, and London Borough of Merton monumental inscriptions.  
== History  ==
*[https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/greater-london-burial-index Greater London Burial Index] at Findmypast ($), index
 
*[http://www.londonburials.co.uk/ The London Burial Grounds]. History, cemetery photographs. David Orme took an 1897 description of the city church cemeteries and updated it with additional sources and modern observations.<br>
Up to the mid-1800s, most London burials took place in churchyards. For further information on these burial grounds, see specific [[London Parishes|London parish]] pages. Due to overcrowding, municipal cemeteries, located outside of the historic City of London, such as New Bunhill Fields, became popular.<ref>''Cemetery Records,'' London Metropolitan Archives Information Leaflet Number 5, http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/0EA11147-00CB-4F00-8DB6-EEBDA39E5F22/0/5CEMETERYRECORDS.pdf, accessed 17 January 2012.</ref>
*[http://www.brookwoodcemetery.com Brookwood Cemetery]. History, cemetery chapel, cemetery map, grave search, famous graves.
 
*'''1833-1853''' {{FSC|687863|title-id|disp=Burials, 1833-1853}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
In addition to the city churches, other popular burial grounds in medieval and early modern London included:
*'''1785-1891''' {{FSC|1188781|title-id|disp=Foreign Registers, 1785-1891; Index, 1816-1865}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 
*'''1666''' {{FSC|41488|title-id|disp=Catalogue of the Tombs in the Churches of the City of London, A.D. 1666}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
*Austin Friars
*'''1538-1835''' {{FSC|285246|title-id|disp=Index to Burials in the London Area, 1538-1835}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
*Crutched Friars
* {{FSC|274589|title-id|disp=A Transcript of All the Legible Monumental Inscriptions in 34 Parishes in the Counties of Berks, Bucks, Herts and Middlesex}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
*Mercer's Chapel
* {{FSC|73944|title-id|disp=An Obituary}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
*Rolls Chapel
*'''1856-1998''' City of London Cemetery
*St Anthony's Hospital
**[https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/search/advanced/parish/burial/?county=LND&area%5B%5D=&area%5B%5D=city+of+london+cemetery%2C+manor+park%2C+london&age=&age_range=0&abode=&kw= Transcript Burials] at The Genealogist ($), index
*St Mary Magdalen Guildhall
**[https://col-burialregisters.uk/ Burial registers, 1856-1992] at City of London Cemetery and Crematorium - images
*Whitefriars<ref name="tombs">Payne Fisher and G. Blacker Morgan, ''Catalogue of the Tombs in the Churches of the City of London, A.D. 1666'' (1668; reprint, London: Hasell, Watson, Viney, Ld., 1885).</ref>
** {{FSC|286510|title-id|disp=Register of Monuments}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 
* {{FSC|59705|title-id|disp=Epitaphs of London County, England}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
'''Bunhill Fields''' burial ground, opened in 1665 to inter Londoners who died in the Great Plague, was in operation until 1854. Approximately 120,000 burials took place there. {{Find A Grave|658393|Bunhill Fields Burial Ground}} (175+ entries)  
* {{FSC|450418|title-id|disp=Genealogical Collections Relating to the Lord Mayors of the City of London}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 
* {{FSC|106214|title-id|disp=London County Burial Grounds Being about 362 in Number}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
{{Wikipedia|Magnificent_Seven,_London|Magnificent Seven}} The '''Magnificent Seven''' Greater London cemeteries opened in the nineteenth century were (with years opened): <br>
* {{FSC|450087|title-id|disp=Monumental Drawings of Celebrated Persons}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 
* {{FSC|290838|title-id|disp=Monumental Inscriptions From Various Churches in London, England}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
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* {{FSC|626123|title-id|disp=Register of Memorials Removed, City of London Cemetery, Manor Park}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
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* {{FSC|626155|title-id|disp=Removal of Human Remains, City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
! width="30%" | Cemetery
* {{FSC|103562|title-id|disp=Return of Burial Grounds in the County of London}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
! width="70%" | Links
* {{FSC|395305|title-id|disp=The Churchyard Inscriptions of the City of London}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
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* {{FSC|41534|title-id|disp=The London Burial Grounds}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
| Kensal Green Cemetery<br>(1832)  
* {{FSC|358215|title-id|disp=The Monumental Inscriptions and Armorial Bearing in the Churches within the City of London}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
| {{Find A Grave|658427|Kensal Green Cemetery}} (1,500+ entries)
* {{FSC|453079|title-id|disp=An Index of Names From the Monumental Inscriptions in Seymour's Survey of London}}(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
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| West Norwood Cemetery<br>(1837)
| {{Find A Grave|658403|West Norwood Cemetery}} (1,900+ entries)<br> [http://www.fownc.org/contact/index.shtml West Norwood Cemetery website]
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| [[Highgate Cemetery, London|Highgate Cemetery]]<br>(1839 West &amp; 1860 East)
| {{Find A Grave|638895|Highgate Cemetery (East)}} (175+ entries)<br>{{Find A Grave|638894|Highgate Cemetery (West)}} (665+ entries)<br> [http://www.highgatecemetery.org Highgate Cemetery website]
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| Abney Park Cemetery<br>(1840)  
| {{Find A Grave|658404|Abney Park Cemetery}} (4,500+ entries)
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| Nunhead<br>(1840)  
| {{Find A Grave||Nunhead Cemetery}}
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| Brompton<br>(1840)  
| {{Find A Grave|658429|Brompton Cemetery (aka West London Cemetery, Westminster Cemetery)}} (950+ entries)
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| Tower Hamlets<br>(1841)  
| {{Find A Grave||Tower Hamlets Cemetery}}
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Beginning in 1854, thousands of east-enders were buried in '''Brookwood Cemetery''' in Surrey (also known as the London Necropolis). It is the largest cemetery in the UK and one of the largest in the world. Until World War II, funeral trains ran from Waterloo station directly to the Cemetery.<ref>Email, Dr. Brian Swann to Nathan W. Murphy, 20 April 2012.</ref> {{Find A Grave|2098485|Brookwood Cemetery}} (614+ entries) More than 235,000 people have been buried there.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Brookwood Cemetery," in ''Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia,'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookwood_Cemetery, accessed 20 April 2012.</ref> The official Brookwood Cemetery site offers a [http://www.brookwoodcemetery.com/grave_search.htm grave search] for a fee.
 
A guide to [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/cem.html Victorian London Cemeteries] is available at GenDocs. They include:
 
*New Bunhill Fields
*{{Find A Grave|2162468|East London Cemetery}} (240+ entries)
 
Major modern cemeteries include:
 
*[http://www.billiongraves.com/pages/cemetery/cemetery.php?cemetery_id=158526 Wandsworth Cemetery, London] BillionGraves
*{{Find A Grave|658426|City of London Cemetery and Crematorium}} (1,850+ entries)
 
=== Church Interiors  ===
 
For early monuments inside London churches, see:
 
*Weever, John. ''Ancient Funeral Monuments in Great Britain &amp;c.'' 1631; reprint, London: W. Tooke, 1767. Digitized by [http://books.google.com/books?id=Um0DAAAAYAAJ Internet Archive]. City of London begins on page 413.
*Fisher, Payne and G. Blacker Morgan. ''Catalogue of the Tombs in the Churches of the City of London, A.D. 1666''. 1668; reprint, London: Hasell, Watson, Viney, Ld., 1885. Digitized by [http://www.archive.org/details/cataloguetombsi00morggoog Internet Archive].
*Oliver, Andrew. ''A List of Monumental Brasses in the City of London Churches''. 1891. Digitized by [http://www.archive.org/details/listofmonumental00oliv Internet Archive]. (41 brasses)<br>
 
=== Churchyards  ===
 
[http://www.archive.org/details/churchyardinscri00rush ''The Churchyard Inscriptions of the City of London''] (1910) is available online.
 
=== Guides  ===
 
A very useful guide to published monumental inscriptions appeared in the ''Genealogists' Magazine'' in the late 1920s and early 1930s:


=== List of Cemeteries  ===
*'A Bibliography of Monumental Inscriptions in the City and County of London,' ''Genealogists' Magazine,'' Vol. 5 (1929-1931):406-408; Vol. 6 (1932-1934):22-23, 68-69, 107-109, 285, 439-441, 503 and 561.


Raymond has compiled an extensive list of publications of City of London monumental inscriptions.<ref>Stuart A. Raymond, ''London and Middlesex: A Genealogical Bibliography'' (Birmingham, UK: Federation of Family History Societies, c1997). Vol. 1:39-42. FHL 942.1 D27r 1997 v. 1.</ref>


For a modern guide to London's burial grounds, see:


*Wolfson, Patricia S. and Cliff Webb. ''Greater London Cemeteries and Crematoria.'' London: Society of Genealogists Enterprises Ltd., c2005, 2007. {{FHL|1521438|item|disp=FHL Book 942.1/L1 V34w 2005}}.<br>


== Websites  ==


*[http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/0EA11147-00CB-4F00-8DB6-EEBDA39E5F22/0/5CEMETERYRECORDS.pdf Cemetery Records] (London Metropolitan Archives Information Leaflet)
*[http://www.deceasedonline.com/ Deceased Online]. Includes London Borough of Brent, London Borough of Camden, London Borough of Havering, London Borough of Islington, and London Borough of Merton monumental inscriptions.
*[http://www.londonburials.co.uk/ The London Burial Grounds]. History, cemetery photographs. David Orme took an 1897 description of the city church cemeteries and updated it with additional sources and modern observations.<br>
*[http://www.brookwoodcemetery.com/index.htm Brookwood Cemetery]. History, cemetery chapel, cemetery map, grave search, famous graves.


== References  ==


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Only a fraction of London's monumental inscriptions survive today.[1] It can be helpful to search surveys of church cemeteries made in the past, when more gravestones were intact, and before churches were demolished.

History[edit | edit source]

Up to the mid-1800s, most London burials took place in churchyards. For further information on these burial grounds, see specific London parish pages. Due to overcrowding, municipal cemeteries, located outside of the historic City of London, such as New Bunhill Fields, became popular.[2]

In addition to the city churches, other popular burial grounds in medieval and early modern London included:

  • Austin Friars
  • Crutched Friars
  • Mercer's Chapel
  • Rolls Chapel
  • St Anthony's Hospital
  • St Mary Magdalen Guildhall
  • Whitefriars[3]

Bunhill Fields burial ground, opened in 1665 to inter Londoners who died in the Great Plague, was in operation until 1854. Approximately 120,000 burials took place there. Bunhill Fields Burial Ground database at Find A Grave. (175+ entries)

Wikipedia has more about this subject: Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven Greater London cemeteries opened in the nineteenth century were (with years opened):

Cemetery Links
Kensal Green Cemetery
(1832) 		Kensal Green Cemetery database at Find A Grave. (1,500+ entries)
West Norwood Cemetery
(1837) 		West Norwood Cemetery database at Find A Grave. (1,900+ entries)
West Norwood Cemetery website
Highgate Cemetery
(1839 West & 1860 East) 		Highgate Cemetery (East) database at Find A Grave. (175+ entries)
Highgate Cemetery (West) database at Find A Grave. (665+ entries)
Highgate Cemetery website
Abney Park Cemetery
(1840) 		Abney Park Cemetery database at Find A Grave. (4,500+ entries)
Nunhead
(1840) 		Nunhead Cemetery database at Find A Grave.
Brompton
(1840) 		Brompton Cemetery (aka West London Cemetery, Westminster Cemetery) database at Find A Grave. (950+ entries)
Tower Hamlets
(1841) 		Tower Hamlets Cemetery database at Find A Grave.

Beginning in 1854, thousands of east-enders were buried in Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey (also known as the London Necropolis). It is the largest cemetery in the UK and one of the largest in the world. Until World War II, funeral trains ran from Waterloo station directly to the Cemetery.[4] Brookwood Cemetery database at Find A Grave. (614+ entries) More than 235,000 people have been buried there.[5] The official Brookwood Cemetery site offers a grave search for a fee.

A guide to Victorian London Cemeteries is available at GenDocs. They include:

Major modern cemeteries include:

Church Interiors[edit | edit source]

For early monuments inside London churches, see:

  • Weever, John. Ancient Funeral Monuments in Great Britain &c. 1631; reprint, London: W. Tooke, 1767. Digitized by Internet Archive. City of London begins on page 413.
  • Fisher, Payne and G. Blacker Morgan. Catalogue of the Tombs in the Churches of the City of London, A.D. 1666. 1668; reprint, London: Hasell, Watson, Viney, Ld., 1885. Digitized by Internet Archive.
  • Oliver, Andrew. A List of Monumental Brasses in the City of London Churches. 1891. Digitized by Internet Archive. (41 brasses)

Churchyards[edit | edit source]

The Churchyard Inscriptions of the City of London (1910) is available online.

Guides[edit | edit source]

A very useful guide to published monumental inscriptions appeared in the Genealogists' Magazine in the late 1920s and early 1930s:

  • 'A Bibliography of Monumental Inscriptions in the City and County of London,' Genealogists' Magazine, Vol. 5 (1929-1931):406-408; Vol. 6 (1932-1934):22-23, 68-69, 107-109, 285, 439-441, 503 and 561.

Raymond has compiled an extensive list of publications of City of London monumental inscriptions.[6]

For a modern guide to London's burial grounds, see:

  • Wolfson, Patricia S. and Cliff Webb. Greater London Cemeteries and Crematoria. London: Society of Genealogists Enterprises Ltd., c2005, 2007. FHL Book 942.1/L1 V34w 2005.

Websites[edit | edit source]

  • Cemetery Records (London Metropolitan Archives Information Leaflet)
  • Deceased Online. Includes London Borough of Brent, London Borough of Camden, London Borough of Havering, London Borough of Islington, and London Borough of Merton monumental inscriptions.
  • The London Burial Grounds. History, cemetery photographs. David Orme took an 1897 description of the city church cemeteries and updated it with additional sources and modern observations.
  • Brookwood Cemetery. History, cemetery chapel, cemetery map, grave search, famous graves.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Cliff Webb, My Ancestors were Londoners: A Guide to London Sources for Family Historians (London: Society of Genealogists, 2009), 22.
  2. ↑ Cemetery Records, London Metropolitan Archives Information Leaflet Number 5, http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/0EA11147-00CB-4F00-8DB6-EEBDA39E5F22/0/5CEMETERYRECORDS.pdf, accessed 17 January 2012.
  3. ↑ Payne Fisher and G. Blacker Morgan, Catalogue of the Tombs in the Churches of the City of London, A.D. 1666 (1668; reprint, London: Hasell, Watson, Viney, Ld., 1885).
  4. ↑ Email, Dr. Brian Swann to Nathan W. Murphy, 20 April 2012.
  5. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Brookwood Cemetery," in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookwood_Cemetery, accessed 20 April 2012.
  6. ↑ Stuart A. Raymond, London and Middlesex: A Genealogical Bibliography (Birmingham, UK: Federation of Family History Societies, c1997). Vol. 1:39-42. FHL 942.1 D27r 1997 v. 1.


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