Walton Park Cemetery, Liverpool

[whdsn]

Thank you joan
                       for your kind offer. The date he was buried was 1st Apr 1881. I think it was grave area j 7 .he died in the royal infirmary.
                       wayne

[BritVic]

With regard to Walton Parochial Cemetery, Liverpool, now operating as Rice Lane City Farm. I work at the farm and would refer you to my FaceBook page 'Rice Lane City Farm - A Personal collection of Photos and Videos.' If you scan down the page you will come across a hand drawn map showing the present layout of the farm/cemetery. There is also a lot of info about the farm/cemetery on the web - Robert Noonan aka Robert Tressell auther of the Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, James Carling, illustrator for Edgar Allen Poe and Ernest Freeman of the Titanic are some of the well-known people buried at the cemetery.

With regard to locating graves, we provide whatever assistance we can, but we are severely limited by a lack of available information. To my knowledge, the original plans and demarcations for the cemetery were detroyed during the second world war bombings.
I believe the cemetery was deconsecreted in the 1970's, but because there are still family graves in use, burials have taken place after that time - The last burial was in 2009.
Incidently, the entrance to the cemetery is via the Rawcliffe Road Gate. The rear Dove Gate entrance on Hornby Road is kept locked for security reason - Don't park on Hornby Road, outside of Walton Prison as any vehicles parked there are regularly broken into.
Due to the difficulty in tracing graves it is strongly advised to phone with whatever info you have before visiting the farm. I am happy to report that we have helped people from across the world with locating graves at the farm. I am also happy to take photos of any grave located and e.mail them to interested persons. You can contact me via the farm on 0151 530 1066, ask for Kevin.

To whomever this may concern !

KEVI is no longer associated with the City Farm and any attempts to utilise his services as above will prove futile.
All is not lost however, there are moves afoot to rectify some of the neglect and maladministration of this site and its records. As of March 2014 an attempt has been made by some members of the Liverpool & S W Lancs FHS & others to interpret the remaining registers against the actual layout of the grounds and in due course,(hopefully this Summer),there will be a much better understanding and improved accessibility to those areas.
However it still has to be pointed out that most of the 'common' grave burials will be completely unmarked and will probably be no more than a patch of grass.
At the very least we are hoping that you might be able to see that exact grass patch for yourself when the project is finished ?

[big g]

Looking forward to when this is done.   

[BritVic]

In the meantime while our project is underway. There is an interested group of local historians who have  collected a vast wealth of general knowledge about the site and produced a very interesting 70 page booklet which is being made available through the farm itself or via their own website :-

http://waltononthehill.wix.com/liverpool#!publications/c5q5

[C]

I have only just found this website and so you probably have your answer but if not I hope this info helps you. I believe Walton park cemetry was a very small part of land which was owned by St Mary the virgin church (c of e)  Walton on the hill. - St Marys is a high church which has/had many smaller ones 'under' it. When the port of liverpool began to expand it became too far for sailors to travel to St Marys - they went into the pub next door (black horse) and then would be late back to the boat. To stop all these problems a church was built in Liverpool called St nicholas (both still standing) the ownership of the cemetry was transferred to St nicholas where I believe it still is.  If so the church would have records etc. The church of St Peter in Liverpool was demolished and all the graves (possibly thousands) transferred to Walton park cemetry,  these look like two fields which have sunken in places. A lot of graves have sunken over the years. Yes there are lots of paupers graves as walton hospital and workhouse backs onto the site. There are also soldiers graves, Robert Trussell etc. Hope this helps you with your research

[BritVic]

Thank you for your interest C and for your observations,although you will appreciate that a much deeper understanding is required to answer the question that most people have asked here, "where exactly is my ancestor buried"?

You will also appreciate that this is indeed an old "thread" and as such masks a considerable amount of work that has been done in the meantime.
I can say that I am now fairly confident I can determine the whereabouts of about 85% of those listed in the on line registers that are available.
What no one can hope to do is restore the past neglect of the place and like you said, a large area of the site is now 'woodland' with huge feral trees and shrubs occupying a considerable amount of the Southern end of the site, thus making access to some areas extremely difficult, most especially in summer.
There is still a lot to do and presently I am trying to decipher "re-location" registers and M.I records.
There is much to learn of what went on in there over the years.

[Kitty85]

Hi, not sure if I’m posting in the right place but here goes!
I’m trying to find someone that died I assume Walton hospital.... rice lane in the 50s.
I have death cert, but not sure where I go from there?   
Can anyone help?

[Blue70]

They could be buried at Anfield Cemetery you could try contacting Friends of Anfield:-

https://friendsofanfield.com


Blue

[BritVic]

Although this cemetery was closed in 1948 for reasons of "no further capacity" there certainly were 'new' burials that took place as recently as the 1970's.
May I suggest that you join the Liverpool Family History forum and post details (name,date etc) from the Death Cert. for whom you seek.
I have access to unavailable records for this site and will be more able to help you from there.

https://www.lswlfhs.org.uk/
Vic