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I think a collective list of burials, graveyards and MI's that we've found online would prove very useful. I'll start it off with a couple and I'm sure you can add to it.

Please keep this post focussed on links, no look up requests, please make these on the appropriate boards.

*UPDATED* There is now a free to access web site containing the MIs from Kirkdale cemetery at http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ormandy/folklore/
The section maps have not yet been completed but otherwise the site is complete, together with links to West Derby, Anfield and Rake Lane Cemeteries and partial transcriptions for Allerton.

Necropolis- opened 1825 MI's are covered in Gibsons Epitaphs. Layout of graves with overlay in red of Grants Gardens, three photographs, left to right. http://imgur.com/a/qogyy http://imgur.com/a/TsRaH http://imgur.com/a/TOe8S
St James - opened 1829 and for St James Database This database covers approx. 14,000 of the 58,000 burials at this cemetery. MI's are covered in Gibsons Epitaphs.
Wesleyan Chapel, Upper Stanhope Street, Toxteth
St Mary's Kirkdale - opened 1837, this seems to be an ongoing project. If anybody has a good link to this, please let us know.
Rice Lane, Walton - 1856 (also known as Walton Park or Walton Parochial Cemetery)
Layout of Walton Park Cemetery
Toxteth - opened 1856 and for Toxteth Park Inscriptions and also Toxteth Park These are two different, both very useful, sites
Map of Toxteth Park - if anybody has a link for this please let us know
The search facility for the above Toxteth Park site has been problematic so Bertieone has provided the following links that will help
Search the data base,https://www.toxtethparkcemetery.co.uk/T ... 0Page.html
Consecrated/ Un-consecrated - Cursor over decade - Choose year, Click - It can take a short while for the page to appear
Ford (RC)- opened 1859 and for Ford Inscriptions
Better map for Ford
Anfield May 1863 Link to Anfield transcriptions transcriptions by volunteers, not complete yet, and another
Anfield transcriptions
Map of Anfield Sections
and also http://www.toxtethparkcemetery.co.uk/An ... metery.jpg
Everton - opened 1880 - Inscriptions http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ormandy/ ... IIPx_eIp6U
Plan - http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ormandy/ ... page3.html
Kirkdale - opened 1881 Map for Kirkdale
Ainsdale (RC) - opened 1884
West Derby - opened 1893
Map of Yewtree Cemetery - We are looking for a map of Yewtree Cemetery and any other links
Allerton - 1909. This site also has many links to burial grounds in Liverpool and surrounding areas. Looking for a map of Allerton Cemetery

Bootle, Linacre Lane - Opened 1913 - records held at Thornton Garden of Rest. Map of Bootle Cemetery
Bootle Burial Index Register/Book is held at Thornton Crematorium Office. It's like the old telephone number books we used to have . With Tabs A to Z down the side only bigger. It lists in Surname order the year of Burial in year order then Section and Plot number. You have to request to see it from out back when calling at Thornton Crematorium Office which has moved recently from by the entrance gate to the actual central Crem. area where Services are held. They are very helpful in providing free a copy of the plan of the required Burial Section showing individual plot numbers. Crosby Library as far as I am aware do not hold any burial records for Bootle Cem.

Layout of Thornton Garden of Rest The avenue 1st turn to the right is predominantly (but not exclusively) R.C.
St Nicholas, Halewood including a link to alphabetical lists and also the War Memorial. You need Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to view the pages.
St Helens Crematorium - looking for links to the database, also map of the layout.
Liverpool Road Crematorium, Southport - looking for any links and map
Widnes Cemetery - looking for any links and map

Walton Parochial Cemetery (Walton Park Cemetery)
Previous links appear to be out of date and contacts no longer available. Enquiries are being referred to St Nicholas http://www.livpc.co.uk/contacts/family_history.html but still difficult to get a response. Many records are on Ancestry (last I found was 1948) but difficult to discover actual grave sites.

http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/ Links to too many to mention, especially
http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/Mersey ... yards.html - scroll down for links to many graveyards.
Also linked to this site has photographs of gravestones for St John the Evangelist, Knotty Ash

Alphabetical list of Cemeteries with useful information such as dates and references for Registers http://www.toxtethparkcemetery.co.uk/Al ... rpool.html

RC enquiries for Ford and Yewtree - Archdiocese 0151 522 1000

Liverpool Cemeteries & Crematoria http://liverpool.gov.uk/births-marriage ... rematoria/

There is also a central Register for all burials held at Allerton Cemetery Lodge.
Telephone: 0151 233 3004
E-Mail: cemeteriesandcrematoria@liverpool.gov.uk
They usually make a charge for checking their records, however if you were to have an exact date they might be a little more helpful.


Links to Lancashire County Cemetery Records
This link replaces the old .pdf file from the Lancashire Record Office site Guide to Cemetery and Crematoria Records in Lancashire and has been compiled by one of the Lancashire Record Office in his own time, for which we thank him. He has given a warning that it hasn't been updated in a while so he can't guarantee that the contact details are still correct.

"Rice Lane Cemetery" (despite not actually being on Rice Lane).
The cemetery was the property of a burial society within the Jewish community in Liverpool, so it contains burials of members of a variety of different congregations. It opened in 1896 & closed in 1983. The burial records are kept by the administrative office of the Jewish community, which is based at Shifrin House, 433 Smithdown Road, tel 0151-733 2292 (ask for Julia Gould). The person who is most involved with the cemetery & has been for some years is Arnold Lewis (Carolearni [at] aol.com, tel: 0151-722 5021), who is the Community Archivist for the community & also the president of the Liverpool branch of the Jewish Historical Society. There is a small appeal within the community for funds for the cemetery every August, but I don't know how much they make.

I've tried to find out which sections are public and which ones are private as apparently the public graves don't have any markers at all at Ford so that could determine how much effort you put into finding each grave. Here is an incomplete list of sections at Ford ie all those sections that I've so far confirmed as either public or private:-

Public Sections: A, AD, BZ, DZ, SJ, SV, X,

Private Sections: 1A, 2A, AB, AC, AF, AE, AH, AM, AS, C, D, DA, EX, F, G, H, I, JL, K, M, N, O, P, PO, Q, R, RD, RF, SD, SP, T, TW, WD

Also here is some information about "private" burials at Ford Cemetery. The "public" graves at Ford were graves purchased for single interments rather than paupers graves:-

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.anc ... YYEAR.html


Blue

This from a Lady on W.Sussex forum.

http://www.gravestonephotos.com/

Find Family anywhere with luck.

Wendy

I noticed recently when I was researching deaths around the time of the Irish Famine that a lot of the burial records on the St Anthony's Database are more likely funeral records and the burials actually took place at St Mary's, the parish cemetery. So best to check both St Anthony's and the C of E burials on Ancestry to establish the final burial place.

http://stanthonys-liverpool.com/project/index.php

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2198


This plaque acknowledges the Irish Famine burials at St Mary's, Cambridge Street in Liverpool City Centre:-

http://openplaques.org/plaques/8488


Blue

A couple more sites worth adding to see if they grow and become more useful.

http://billiongraves.com/

Quite useful for Ireland I believe although some UK as well
http://historicgraves.com/

Some famous and some not so famous
http://www.findagrave.com/index.html

For Ireland - this is an extremely well populated site that is still being updated on a regular basis. Don't just look at the links to the Cemeteries, don't forget the Headstones too.

http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/#gsc.tab=0

and thanks to Luxor who discovered this search for Burials in Belfast
https://ssl.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialse ... earch.aspx

and also a plan of Dundonald cemetery.
http://www.belfastforum.co.uk/index.php ... msg1504339

Don't forget this site for around the country.
https://www.deceasedonline.com/

Liverpool Echo for obituaries, but only since 2007.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/buy-sell ... y-notices/#/

Tasmania
http://www.northernmidlands.tas.gov.au/ ... age_Id=107

More for Toxteth Park Cemetery.

A member of the Great War forum has taken pics of many headstones at Toxteth Park Cemetary, where war deaths are commemorated, though not actual burials. Also some for WWII.

http://warmemorials.myfastforum.org/for ... 4d85b743f6

Many thanks to Blue for compiling a very comprehensive list, amongst other items, of Burial Registers for Lancashire and Cheshire held by the LDS site, with links to the original images.
https://www.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk/ ... 14&t=15479

Leeds Cemetery, free to search and view results.
https://blog.library.leeds.ac.uk/blog/s ... s/post/484

I know it's a pay site but I didn't know that Cheshire had put all their burial records online, useful information http://www.yourwestcheshire.co.uk/NewsA ... D7DF245%7D

More memorial inscriptions from Rob and Rose Anderson ....
http://freepages.nostalgia.rootsweb.anc ... index.html

Greek Cemeteries
http://www.northeastmedals.co.uk/mm/kef ... metery.htm
http://www.northeastmedals.co.uk/mm/cor ... metery.htm

Obituaries from the Fortnightly Returns of the Operative Society of Masons, Quarrymen and Allied Trades of England and Wales
https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/lib ... bituaries/

Birmingham bereavements
https://www.birminghamburialrecords.co.uk/

Thanks for that Mary. Also , the Toxteth Park site
http://www.toxtethparkcemetery.co.uk/
Has added a map for Allerton Cemetery and Marriages for the Wesleyan Chapel in Upper Stanhope St for all of 1860, 70 and 80s. Hope it is ok to put it here.

Tracing a baby’s grave or record of cremation
Thanks to Vic for this useful and thoughtful document link - it opens in a .pdf file (needs Adobe reader or a pdf reader for it)
https://www.sands.org.uk/sites/default/ ... CORD_0.pdf

The main site is very useful too https://www.sands.org.uk/

Isle of Wight?

Over 100,000 cemetery records are now available at the touch of a fingertip with the launch of a new records website developed by the Isle of Wight Council

https://www.iw-bereavementservices.co.uk/