West Ham Cemetery Records
06/02/12 03:03 Filed in Family History News
West Ham Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Forest Gate, London, E7 9DG.
Approximately 180,000 burial records are available online for West Ham Cemetery, East London.
The data available comprise computerised index records, details of graves including names of all those buried in each grave, and cemetery section maps to locate graves.
Note that only the index records are available, and not the full burial register records, as regrettably these were irrecoverably damaged due to flooding.
West Ham Cemetery (located in Forest Gate) was created in 1857 as one of London’s first publicly-owned cemeteries following the Metropolitan Burials Act of 1852.
The Act was introduced as at that time London’s small burial grounds were overcrowded, causing serious health problems, and lacked good management and accountability. All of the burials since its opening were manually catalogued and these have now been digitised and indexed for the Deceased Online website.
These records are available at deceasedonline on a pay-per-view basis.
Transcribed register entries cost £1.50, image of a grave memorial £2 and maps showing grave or memorial location £5.
