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General Burial Info

Sheffield City Council - Cemetery Records
Until the 17th century people were usually buried in parish churchyards. After the 1689 Toleration Act Nonconformist and Jewish graveyards were opened and from 1800 separate Catholic graveyards were opened. 

Municipal Cemeteries of Sheffield
Sheffield City Council Cemetery Directory.  See also contact information and advice about cremations, cemeteries, burials and memorials.

Cemetery & Crematoria Records           
Sheffield Indexers list of where you can obtain Sheffield Cemetery and Crematoria Records.

Sheffield & Area Genealogy Sites          
Sheffield Indexers collection of links to more family history websites for villages surrounding Sheffield.

Wills & Probate Records (Genuki)
The list of record offices who hold these can be found here. The National Probate indexes are available at Sheffield Archives on microfiche, if you live in the Sheffield area. You then can apply to York for the actual Will once you have ascertained whether he left one at a cost of £5 The Postal Searches & Copies Dept, York Probate Sub-Registry, 1st Floor, Castle Chambers, Clifford Street, York, YO1 9RG [thank you Angela for the instructions].

Cemetery Research Group FAQ's for UK
The principal aim of the CRG is to expand an understanding of current and past burial culture in the modern period in the UK, by studying the ways in which social, emotional and religious concerns have interacted with economic and political imperatives to frame burial practice. This website has been designed to provide an introduction to cemeteries in the UK, and also to point towards other useful sources for this subject.
 

Obituaries & Newspapers                                    << Back to Top >> 

Sheffield Daily Telegraph
Local current Sheffield newspaper online. Using the 'Contact us' link they may be able to search back issues for Obituaries or other information you need.

Obituaries - 1894
Obituaries from the The Local Register as taken from the Sheffield Independent.

Marriages & Obits (Notices)
The Sheffield Independent - July 15 1905 (courtesy of Ann Halford)

Sheffield Telegraph (Announcements)
Births, Forthcoming Marriages, Marriage, Deaths, In Memoriam, Acknowledgements for Saturday March 13, 1943 (courtesy of Ann Halford)

Sheffield Newspaper Collections
The titles below are available in the University of Sheffield Main Library. Please note that holdings are incomplete. Volumes and titles not included may be held elsewhere locally (e.g. sets of the Sheffield Independent and the Sheffield (Daily) Telegraph are held on microfilm in the City Library Local Studies Section). Iris (Sheffield), Sheffield Courant, Sheffield & Rotherham Independent, Sheffield Mercury and Hallamshire Advertiser, Sheffield Register and Sheffield Times.

Sheffield Register (1787 - 1794)
The first edition of the Sheffield Register was published in Sheffield by Joseph Gales on 9th June 1787. Gales pioneered the idea of a newspaper which gave extensive coverage to local issues while reporting on major national stories. Unlike most provincial newspapers, the Sheffield Register did not rely on copying articles that had first appeared in London journals. Copies of the newspapers can be found at the Sheffield Local Studies Library.

Yorkshire Post
The Yorkshire Post is one of Britain's oldest and most respected newspapers, founded in 1754 as the Leedes Intelligencer

Current Sheffield Newspapers & More
Sheffield Indexers links to current Sheffield newspapers, Websites and more.

History of British Newspapers - 18th Century
The British Library's Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Eighteenth Century.

Sheffield Burial Records                                    << Back to Top >> 

Burial Records          
Sheffield Indexers online searchable database for City Road, St. Michael's Roman Catholic and Wadsley Church Cemeteries - transcription and indexing ongoing.

BMD Certificate Index          
If you have a lot of Birth, Marriage or Death Certificates and are wondering what to do with them, why not index them where they can be seen by your potential Rellies.

Other Sheffield Burial Records - SDFHS
Sheffield & District Family History Society list indexed burial records and other material available on CD. 

GENFAIR
Books, maps, membership, thousands of downloadable transcribed records - baptisms, marriages, burials and more. 

Friends of Burngreave Cemetery
The 'Friends of Burngreave Chapel & Cemetery' group was set up "to make the cemetery and chapel buildings accessible to everybody and to educate and enlighten visitors into not only its history, but its wildlife, trees and plants, which overlap and interact."  

Friends of Wardsend Cemetery
The “Friends of Wardsend Cemetery” group has been set up with the aim of promoting this historic Victorian Cemetery whilst trying to preserve the abundant flora and fauna which has adopted this site over the last 150 odd years. This cemetery is the last resting place of over 30,000 Sheffield and district people as well as military personnel from the nearby Sheffield (Hillsborough) Barracks. "  

Cemetery & Crematoria Records           
Sheffield Indexers list of where you can obtain Sheffield Cemetery and Crematoria Records.

Sheffield General Cemetery
History of the Cemetery and the people buried there. See also more info for Sheffield General Cemetery and  Photos.

Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
See their page for downloadable data records. Some of these files can be browsed (just click where indicated), others have to be downloaded to your PC. Records for Sheffield, England include; The Central Synagogue - cemetery internment lists and Bowden Street Jewish Cemetery.

National Burial Index - West Yorkshire
Burial records by city, town/village, and by burial ground within that municipality (available on CD). 

National Burial Index
FFHS is an international organization, established in 1974 in the UK as a non-profit charitable company.  It is conducting the transcription and computerization of Burial records mainly by members of the Federation of Family History Societies throughout Britain. You can also contact the local Family History Societies for more details [for Sheffield see SDFHS].

National Burial Index - 2
It is not a complete index to all burials, but represents an enormous effort by Family History Societies and Groups over 10 years to make available a large amount of information easily searchable in your own home. The information provided in the National Burial Index is taken from parish, non-conformist, Roman Catholic and cemetery registers where available. A bar graph is provided showing the count of people included in the Index for each year from 1538 to 2000.
 

Memorials & Monumental Inscriptions                << Back to Top >> 

Sheffield Memorial
Photos of the Sheffield Memorial and other helpful links to information on prisoners of war, other memorials, etc from Roll of Honour.com website dedicated to those men and women who fell fighting for their country.

Sheffield Cholera Monument & Clay Wood
The Monument Grounds are the burial ground for most of the victims of the cholera outbreak of 1832, in which over 400 people died. The pleasure gardens were first laid out around the 1850’s. Clay Wood is adjacent to Cholera Monument Grounds and affords among many things fine views over the city, the Norfolk Heritage Trail and Master Cutler's Grave

Lest We Forget
Sheffield Indexers' collection of photos from various memorials for British and Commonwealth soldiers including; Leers (France), The Menin Gate, Ypres (Belgium), Railway Chateau British Cemetery (Belgium), Thiepval (France), Tyne Cot, Ypres (Belgium) and Vimy Ridge (France).

Military Links
Sheffield Indexers' collection of Military Links including Museums and Monuments pertaining to Wars and Conflicts.
 

Parish & Cemetery Maps                                    << Back to Top >> 

Sheffield Parish Maps
Old Parish maps of Sheffield and Sheffield North.

Cemetery Maps
Local maps and photos of Sheffield Cemeteries and Churches including; Abbey Lane, Attercliffe (Hill Top, Municipal), Burncross, Burngreave, Sheffield Cathedral, Christ Church (Attercliffe), City Road, Crookes, Crookes Congregational, Darnall, Ecclesall, Ecclesfield, General, Handsworth, Intake, Loxley, St John the Baptist, St John's (Park), St Mary's (Walkley), St Michael's, St Thomas, St Timothy's, Stocksbridge, Tinsley Park Cemetery, Wadsley, Wardsend and Woodhouse.

Street Index, Maps, Boundaries
Sheffield Indexers collection of links to maps, street indexes, surveys, regional and city boundaries and more.

A Church Near You
Website with online searchable database for current Churches in England, Dioceses, Churches in Continental Europe, Services and Events, Features and Facilities. It will also draw the current boundaries of that parish on the map - in progress.
 

Sheffield Cemeteries & Photos                                    << Back to Top >>

Municipal Cemeteries of Sheffield
Sheffield City Council Cemetery Directory.  See also contact information and advice about cremations, cemeteries, burials and memorials and a link to Bereavement Services.

Cemetery & Church Photos
Local maps and photos of Sheffield Cemeteries and Churches including; Abbey Lane, Attercliffe (Hill Top, Municipal), Burncross, Burngreave, Sheffield Cathedral, Christ Church (Attercliffe), City Road, Crookes, Crookes Congregational, Darnall, Ecclesall, Ecclesfield, General, Handsworth, Loxley, St John the Baptist, St John's (Park), St Mary's (Walkley), St Michael's, St Thomas, St Timothy's, Stocksbridge, Tinsley Park Cemetery, Wadsley, Wardsend and Woodhouse.

Friends of Walkley
Environmental action around South Yorkshire in partnership with Walkley St Mary's church, to promote the practical conservation, improvement and use of Walkley Cemetery. Email Irving Smith for further information.  [Photos]

Friends of Wardsend Cemetery
Website of the Friends of Wardsend Cemetery.  [Photos]

Attercliffe Chapel (Hill Top)
History of the Cemetery [Photos].

Burngreave Cemetery
Established in 1860 under The Burial Act, The Brightside Bierlow Cemetery, as it was named, was built on a 27-acre package of land comprising part of the ancient woods of Burn Greave, a quarry, mines and shale pits. It became Burngreave Cemetery in 1900 when the City Council took over its responsibility.

City Road Cemetery (Sheffield City Council)
Search for City Road Cemetery for a history of the Cemetery. Search the records.  See also more info for City Road Cemetery [Photos]

Grave Classifications - there are three main grave classifications used at City road:

Purchased = Where a plot was used solely for the grave purchasers family/friends (up to the graves capacity), This is usually the only type of plot where you find a headstone.

Common = Where a plot was purchased for a specific number of burials, then after that number of burials were used, the plot was then re-sold to other usually unrelated folk until the graves capacity was reached. (It is quite rare for this type of grave to have a memorial)

Margin = This is what is sometimes referred to as a paupers grave where usually all/most of the cost was met by the parish. These can be quite hard to locate.
If you see unrelated people in the same plot, the odds on there being a headstone are quite slim.

Crookes Cemetery
History of the Cemetery. See also more info  [Photos]

General Cemetery, Sheffield
History of the Cemetery and the people buried there. See also more info for Sheffield General Cemetery [Photos].

Tinsley Park Cemetery
History of the Cemetery. See also more info .

Moorgate Cemetery, Rotherham
Following outbreaks of cholera in Rotherham in the early and mid 19th century, which had caused hundreds of deaths in the town, it was becoming clear that Rotherham township would soon need a new burial ground. The old church yard at Rotherham Parish Church was overflowing with half buried bodies and there was no room for expansion around the church for further burials.

Lest We Forget
Sheffield Indexers' collection of photos from various memorials for British and Commonwealth soldiers including; Leers (France), The Menin Gate, Ypres (Belgium), Railway Chateau British Cemetery (Belgium), Thiepval (France), Tyne Cot, Ypres (Belgium) and Vimy Ridge (France).
 

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