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There are 87,000 buried in the General Cemetery, and the General Cemetery Company kept records of every burial. They recorded the name of the person being buried, their death and burial dates, their age, their place of residence, and their status/occupation.

Search the first 6000 burials*

In addition we have transferred information about plot owners from the written records on to a plot owners database.

Search the plot owners*

For a more personal approach to researching family history, a team of volunteers at the Cemetery office will carry out the search for a small fee; at present £5.00. This service includes a search of our paper and electronic databases, a check of the monumental inscriptions as they were in 1977/80 and, if required, a guided tour to the grave site. We offer an additional service where we can email 3 photographs of the site of interest; the starting fee for this work is £5.

The search team can be contact via email : sgct@gencem.org

All the original documents relating to the running of the cemetery from 1836 to its closure in 1978/80 are lodged at the Sheffield Archives, 52 Shoreham Street, Sheffield S1 4SP. Telephone 0114 2039395.

*Please note - We will not be updating these online databases in the foreseeable future. A project to put all the burial records onto a database is nearing completion and CDs of different times periods within the database are available through the Sheffield Family History Society.

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