West Ham Cemetery -
Records and Searches
There is a statutory duty for
Cemeteries to keep records of all persons buried
therein.
At West Ham Cemetery, several types of records are
held:
Alpha Books. An alphabetical record of the
surnames and then first names of all those buried in date order of
interment
Private Grave Registers. Details of Reservees and
the persons interred in each grave
Burial Registers. A chronological record of
interments
War Grave Records. An alphabetical record of
serving personnel who died during both World Wars. May also contain
service details.
Newham Council's burial records are now available on a
specialist family history website
Newham has placed its records of 180,000 burials over its 150 year
plus history on
www.deceasedonline.com,
the UK's only central website for these statutory records. All of
the burials at West Ham Cemetery since its opening were manually
catalogued and these have now digitised and indexed for the
Deceased Online website.
Burial records are important research resources for family history
tracing and Deceased
Online allows users, free of charge, to search the national
database by name of deceased, date, and location. If relevant
records are found, the online user has the option to purchase
access to these to view, print and/or download the
information.
Deceased Online already has records for some 50 councils from the
north of Scotland to South Devon on its website representing nearly
500 cemeteries and crematoria. In London, the councils include
Brent, Camden, Havering, Islington, Merton and Greenwich and others
are due to be included in the near future.