Norwood cemetery complete

[screwlooose]

Just a post for anyone who may visit Norwood from time to time. I am compiling a list of relatives there. Would love some pics of graves, if it doesn't put people out.
Duane

[Valda]

Hi

West Norwood cemetery is 40 acres and has about 42,000 burial plots and several thousand internments in the catacombs so if anyone is visiting and can take a photograph they would obviously need to know the plot number and the precise location.


Regards

Valda

[jonwicken]

I have visited Norwood and it is an interesting cemetery. However lot's of graves were removed so there may not be a stone there at all now.

I have visited looking for a grave which was a bit of a challenge. The marked graves on the map I was given are today just grass so it was difficult to get your bearings. I found that the tomb on the grave I was looking for was one of those which had been removed.

Have you had a look at the Friends of West Norwood Cemetery website? It may be worth you joining as it is only £3 a year.

http://www.fownc.org/

Kind regards,
Jon

[Valda]

Hi

If you check the help guide at the top of the London and Middlesex boards

A GUIDE TO BURIALS IN THE LONDON AREA

It gives the link to the cemetery database which holds details of all reused graves in West Norwood Cemetery. You can search it online.
Ancestry also hold Bishop Transcripts for West Norwood Cemetery (Anglican burials only) 1838-1918 held at the London Metropolitan Archives.


Regards

Valda

[jonwicken]

Hi thanks for the link. I have seen and used this site before but none of the fifteen or so people I know who were interred there come up in a database search. I can only assume it is not complete.

Many registers are online at ancesty but are missing some years. I assume these are the BT Anglican registers you talk about.

There are two sets of registers at the cemetery office itself. The first being an A-Z name index by year and then this can be cross referenced with the grave itself. This will tell you who else was buried in the plot. The staff in the office were very helpful when I visited.

Regards,
Jon

 

[Valda]

Hi

Bishop Transcripts are the annual copies of parish registers sent to the Bishop - in this case Anglican cemetery burial registers (it does not therefore include the very many non-conformist burials that took place at the cemetery). Many BTs do not survive or were not copied from the registers in the first place.

The reused graves in West Norwood cemetery is a very specific database and in no way claims to cover the 164,000 burials plus 34,000 cremations and several thousand interments in the catacombs.

http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/cemetery/GraveAboutCemeteryDatabase.aspx


Regards

Valda

[screwlooose]

Hi, and thx for all the info. I have used the data base refered to and none of the 10 or so burials from my family have come up. I will post a lookup, to see if someone can do a check at the records office for me. I have contacted the Lambeth office but they want a good sum of money per hour to look them up for me.
Whilst i appreciate the response that i have recieved, and i hope that i have read it wrong, i found the response a bit belittling. Not all of us here have been doing this forever and are as knowledgable as everone else. Thats why we have these forums. To draw on others experties.
There are no obligations to respond, so if the question is a bit, "derrrrrrrrrr", leave it for others.
As i said, i hope i have read it wrong because i appreciate all the info i get here. Thats why i use this site and reccomend it to everyone who is starting out.
Thx
Duane

[hmcmillan29]

Hi,

I was having a look through the forum and the words "Norwood" jumped out at me.  I have ancestors in the cemetery and I was able to travel from Glasgow down to London to visit a couple of years ago. 
All I had to go on was an obituary of my Great Great Grandfather.
I went into the Cemetery Office and the staff couldnt have been more helpful.  They gave me details of plot along with a map of the vast, vast area and pointed me in the right direction.  I was delighted to find the resting place, which included 5 other ancestors I had no idea were buried there.  There was no gravestone, but was able to work out the plot using the stones around the area.

Well worth a trip down and hopefully I will be able to go back down in the near future.

Hope you manage to get your task completed in time.

Best wishes
Hazel

 

[hmcmillan29]

Hi Duane,

Reading back my reply, the last sentence seems a bit weird!!! 

What I meant was that as we all know seeking our ancestors is not easy and takes a very long time.....I should have said, through time, not in time!!

Hazel