City of London & Tower Hamlets Cemetery

[jonwarrn]

City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Registers, 1841-1966, have been added to ancestry.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61263

Should save Steve a few look ups!
John

[smudwhisk]

Great.   Now to the long list of missing burials for the East End.

[smudwhisk]

I hope they've done a better job than they have with Chingford Mount Cemetery amongst this collection - http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=9041.  There are a lot of missing folios including for a couple of my direct ancestors.  I've been manually though the images and they're not there.

EDIT - well I'm disappointed by the Chingford Mount screw up, but I've just found four missing burials in City of London & Tower Hamlets, including two direct line, so am feeling a bit more amenable towards Ancestry.

[smudwhisk]

Well pleased, and a lot happier than with the issues with Chingford Mount Cemetery on Ancestry, I've so far found 13 direct ancestor burials and quite a few sidelines too.

[Kevin, now in Chester]

Thank you for alerting me to the  release of these records.  Twenty one direct ancestors found so far from 1861 to 1965, with only one transcription error (my g-grandfather, boxing champion, Richard "Harry" Paul was 90 not 30 when he was one of the last to be buried at THC on 11 December 1965).
 
Kenneth Greenway - who looks after the nature park at "Bow Cemetery" as it remains known locally, will be looking forward to a rush of visitors trying to locate their ancestors' graves.

www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgnl/leisure_and_culture/parks_and_open_spaces/cemetery_park

I recall that there were two ladies who spent the second Sunday of each month transcribing the inscriptions at Bow Cemetery.  A massive task.  Not sure that they ever made these available on-line or elsewhere, but they and Ken were fantastically helpful in guiding me to the long overgrown and lost graves of my father and grandparents.

Kevin now in Chester

[Jolee]

Might take a while to scan all these burials as they are scanning the books not the fiche, the fiche is a complete muddle of consecrated and non consecrated burials, I have spent hours in the LMA looking, thanks from me as well for alerting me to the online burials.

[drhewitt]

I found a bunch of Scriven ancestors in this data set.

My ggg-grandfather died in Hackney and was buried all the way in Chingford cemetery. He was poor so why he ended up there I have no idea.

[Tsu]

Good for children that were born and died between the censuses.  Found a Rondeau already.

Many thanks

[Romilly]

City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Registers, 1841-1966, have been added to ancestry.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61263
Should save Steve a few look ups!
John

Just noticed this...

Is anyone able to do a Look-up for me please for my late Uncle:

Ernest Rencella Wilson, Born Swansea 8/8/1897. Died Stepney, London 5/12/1957.

I've never been able to find where he was Buried.

Cheers, Romilly.