Links

Cemeteries

National Federation of Cemetery Friends (link updated 12/04/2008)
The Federation, founded in 1986, acts as a link between Cemetery Friends and gives advice to potential Friends wishing to set up their own group.

Abney Park Cemetery
Abney Park Cemetery in the London Borough of Hackney

Abney Park Cemetery Indexing Project
Find out who is buried in this cemetery and how far the project to index the 194,815 burials in the registers is progressing.

Brookwood Cemetery (link updated 12/04/2008)
Once served by railway from the Necroplis station at Waterloo when it opened this was the largest cemetery in the world.

Kensal Green Cemetery, London
The official Friends site of this cemetery. The resting place of painter John Waterhouse, and author Wilkie Collins.

Kensal Green Cemetery, London
Beautiful Photographs and a wealth of historical information.

Kensal Green Cemetery, London
A personal site outlining the development of the garden cemetery.

Nunhead Cemetery
Nunhead Cemetery in the London Borough of Southwark - 52 acres opened in 1840.

Ryde Cemetery
Website of Ryde Cemetery, on the Isle of Wight, which was ened in 1841.

Undercliffe Cemetery
The website and it's contents are based on the book by Colin Clark and Reuben Davison "In Loving Memory - The Story of Undercliffe Cemetery".

West Norwood Cemetery (link updated 12/08/2008)
West Norwood Cemetery is one of the metropolitan cemeteries founded to deal with the expanding population of London in the early 19th century. It was opened in 1837.

York Cemetery
York Cemetery is a working burial ground. At the same time, it provides opportunities for conservation, education, and informal recreation within a protected environment close to York city centre.

Other links

Commonwealth War Grave Commission
"Their name liveth for evermore". Search the registers for details and whereabouts of service-men killed in two world wars.

Cemetery Listings
Fantastic listings page of cemeteries on the world wide web by country. Maintained by Klaus Medeke.

Sheffield City Council Bereavement Services
Bereavement Services are responsible for two crematoria in Sheffield - City Road and Hutcliffe Wood (including the Gardens of Remembrance) and for 16 cemeteries within the city boundary. We also manage the closed General Cemetery in partnership with the Sheffield General Cemetery Trust.

Sheffield City Council Family History
Introductory material on tracing your family tree on this site including International Genealogy Index on microfiche, books on family crests, coats of arms, the peerage and landed gentry, magazines include Family History News and Digest and Genealogists Magazine, dictionaries of names and selected printed parish registers series.

Steve Withington's Photographs (link updated 12/08/2008)
Photographs of the General Cemetery, taken by a local artist.

Mourning and funeral usages
Information about Victorian mourning practices

UK Graves
A photographic tour of some of the South of England's graveyards, cemeteries and other places of burial.

The Workhouse
Dedicated to the workhouse - its buildings, its inmates, its staff and administrators, and even its poets...