Camberwell Old Cemetery

[PJWELLS]

A very apt description, it is a mound indeed, along a 50 m stretch.
I wonder if there  are any images of it before the mound  was created.

[dawnsh]

If the section was full of common graves then it be be an expanse of grass. Any municipal cemetery will have sections for common graves.

[Chris Doran]

I have photos of 10-20 miniature headstones, as used on common graves, now laid flat alongside the mound and around trunks of trees in squares 8, 16 & 24 and which may have come from the mounded area. I won't have time to look up where each of them came from this side of Christmas, but I can check the surnames if anyone cares to ask. Sorry, no Wells there.

The office (at Camberwell New Cemetery) might have photos of the original area and any headstones that were removed. They photographed those from squares 100-108 (mainly) alongside Underhill Road which have just been relandscaped for reuse. They published a list of plot numbers and names (which I have) and would even let you take away your ancestors' headstone

[Lotus004]

Please could someone help me as I do not live anywhere near here. I am looking for the Grave of Annie Parker, she died in 1916 and is buried Square 4 Grave 24237.  I would love it if someone could take a picture of this grave or any information would be very much appreciated, as I have feeling she was a Famous swimmer / diver who is my Ancestor.

Kindest Regards

Claire

[rosie99]

Please could someone help me as I do not live anywhere near here. I am looking for the Grave of Annie Parker, she died in 1916 and is buried Square 4 Grave 24237.  I would love it if someone could take a picture of this grave or any information would be very much appreciated, as I have feeling she was a Famous swimmer / diver who is my Ancestor.

Kindest Regards

Claire

Have you located the death registration for this burial.  Freebmd is only showing one Camberwell RD death for this period and she was only 1 year old

[Chris Doran]

A few observations:

The previous thread on Annie Luker/Parker was unable to establish her date or place of death. The web page mentioned in Reply #4 there as giving a biography doesn't seem to have been captured by the Wayback Machine. A family tree referred to in Reply #23 gives her full birth name as Hagar Ann Luker (compare below).

The Find a Grave memorial for the Annie Parker at Camberwell Old Cemetery, created from the cemetery register, doesn't estimate a year of birth, so age was presumably omitted from the register. The burial date was 22-Apr-1916 and in those days burials generally took place within a few days of death. From a search by plot number, it was a common grave with 8 other people, reducing the chances of finding a headstone, if there ever was one. Deceasedonline gives her full name as Annie Doris Alice Parker, so this may be the wrong person (see above).

Square 4 is being converted into a "woodland burial" area. I had a look at it in 2022. From the close planting of the saplings, I guess this will be for ashes. I noticed a few of the original common grave style miniature headstones but due to my camera being mis-set didn't get any usable pictures. I'll have to have another try.