England Cemeteries

Online Resources

 * BillionGraves England Page - photos and GPS locations of grave markers Navigate to a country page and change the website link
 * England Billion Graves Cemetery Index, ($), index
 * Deceased Online
 * 1538-1991 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * England & Scotland, Select Cemetery Registers, 1800-2016 at Ancestry.com, ($)
 * England, Norfolk Monumental Inscriptions, 1600-1900's browse by parish.
 * Cemetery Stompin' - index
 * UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947- ($)
 * Interment.net page for England
 * 1797-2004 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * National Burial Index For England &amp; Wales, ($), index
 * Wikipedia- List of Cemeteries in England
 * Gravestone Photographic Resource
 * Historic Graves
 * FamilySearch Places
 * United Kingdom, Select Burial and Cremation Index, 1840-2014 at MyHeritage - index ($)
 * England & Scotland, Select Cemetery Registers, 1800-2016 at Ancestry - index & images, ($)

Jewish Cemeteries

 * JewishGen Online Worldwide Database
 * JewishGen All-UK Database

Military Cemeteries

 * 1914-1921, 1939-1947 Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921, 1939-1947 at MyHeritage ($), index and images
 * Commonwealth War Graves at cwgc.org
 * The War Graves Photographic Project, index.
 * Cambridge American Cemetery, Madingley: The World War II Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial

Additional Resources at the Family History Library
To find cemetery records for England in the FamilySearch Catalog follow these steps:


 * 1) Go to the FamilySearch Catalog
 * 2) Enter: England in the Place box
 * 3) Click on: Search
 * 4) Click on: Places within England
 * 5) Click on: Cemeteries

If you don't find an entry for Cemeteries, you may need to go to a smaller jurisdiction by using Places within... a second time.

Monumental Inscriptions
The English call tombstones "monumental inscriptions" (or M.I.s). Monumental inscriptions may provide birth, marriage, and death information. They sometimes give more information than the parish burial register or civil death certificate—information such as military service, occupation, or cause of death. Cemetery records are especially helpful for identifying ancestors not in other records. Because relatives may be buried in adjoining plots, search the entire record.

Before the Burial Acts of 1852 and 1853, most people were buried in church graveyards. The Burial Acts enabled the town officials to purchase and use land as civil graveyards. Private companies also maintained cemeteries before and after this time. Civil cemetery registers are located at local archives or libraries or are held by the group controlling the cemetery.

To find monumental inscriptions, you need to know where an individual was buried. The person may have been buried in a church, city, or public cemetery— usually near the place where he lived or died. You can find clues to burial places in church records, death certificates, or family histories.

Ministers may have the burial registers or the records of the burial plots for the cemetery you wish to search. The "Church Records" section tells how to find a minister’s address.

English family history societies are transcribing the monumental inscriptions from their local areas. Write to the family history society in your area of interest to learn more about their work. See England Societies for how to find an address.

Many monumental inscriptions have been transcribed. The Society of Genealogists in London has a collection in its library. Two guides to this collection, are:

Collins, Lydia. ''Monumental Inscriptions in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. Part 1: Southern England.'' London, England: Society of Genealogists, 1984. (Family History Library book .)

Collins, Lydia, and Mabel Morton. ''Monumental Inscriptions in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. Part 2: Northern England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Overseas''. London, England: Society of Genealogists, 1987. (Family History Library book .)

To view examples of Monumental Inscritptions click here.

Another way to gain access to tombstone inscriptions is through the Internet. There are lists of people on the Internet who volunteer to search various types of records for certain areas, free of charge. You can locate these lists through the GENUKI Website.


 * From the above site:
 * Click [County of your choice].
 * Click Genealogy.
 * ClickLook-up Exchange.

FamilySearch Catalog
The Family History Library has copies of some monumental inscriptions.These are listed in the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:

ENGLAND, [COUNTY] - CEMETERIES

ENGLAND, [COUNTY], [PARISH] -CEMETERIES

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