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Burial records for Bethnal Green

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Victoria

Victoria Report 5 Jun 2009 16:08

Hi, i have a few ancestors that died in Bethnal Green - one for example John Gent 17th feb 1896. I have tried these cemteries - manor park,abney, west ham, city of london but cant find him. Where else can i try?
Regards and thanks for any ideas... im stuck!
Vicky

Eames

Eames Report 5 Jun 2009 21:01

Some people not always be buried where their death was registered. I just found out earlier that my G Grandfather's death was registered in Uxbridge but he was buried in Hendon (District) about 20 odd miles away!

Researching:
Eames (London & Middlesex), Mingo (Devon & Middlesex), O'Leary (London), Field (Kent & Sussex), Rossiter (Wiltshire), Greenshields (Scotland), Hardy (London). Now doing Hopekirk (Croydon, Hastings and Scotland), Noden (Hastings, East Sussex)

Andrew

Andrew Report 5 Jun 2009 21:31

There was a burial ground at Gibraltar Row, Bethnal Green for Protestant Dissenters.

Elizabethofseasons

Elizabethofseasons Report 6 Jun 2009 01:27

Dear Victoria

Could your ancestor have been buried with other family members
who lived in other districts?

Have you looked at the other areas your ancestors lived in for possible clues?

Another thought, could your ancestor be buried in a churchyard?

Try typing in your search facility:

Bethnal Green, genuki

There are lots of links to parish churches, etc.

For other denominations, try the local archive and history centre:

TOWER HAMLETS
LOCAL HISTORY AND ARCHIVE LIBRARY
277 BANCROFT ROAD
LONDON
E1 4DQ

0207 364 1289/90

www.towerhamlets.gov.uk

This centre holds info for Bethnal Green, Stepney, etc

They would know what burial areas there were for all denominations around 1896 and hold records.

Hope this helps.

Best wishes
xx

Victoria

Victoria Report 8 Jun 2009 11:42

Thanks for all the help - i will check them all out

And Shelly thanks for the warning.. im normally quite happy to go alone but i wont after reading your comment.

Cheers again

Richard

Richard Report 8 Jun 2009 13:46

The main church in Bethnal Green was St Matthews. This opened in 1740's, and initially did bury the locals, but due to the heavy population concentrated there, it filled up very fast, after the first hundred years they'd buried more than 50,000 people and were to all intents and purposes full up and stopped burying people there a few years after during 1850's. The other smaller churches in the area had much smaller yards which also filled up fast and they more or less stopped during same period too. So you are extremelly unlikely to find a church burial in Bethnal Green after 1860.

Victoria Park cemetery took many of locals from 1845 onwards, but that filled up fast too. Apparantly they had an average of 150 burials a week and by 1870's they were no longer burying either.

After this point they were usually buried in cemeteries outside Bethnal Green, nearest being Abney Park in Stoke Newington. A little further on to East Walthamstow Cemetery, Queen's Road, East London Cemetery, Grange Road, Plaistow, West Ham Cemetery, Cemetery Road and Manor Park Cemetery, Serbert Road . All worth trying.