19 October 2012

Woolwich Cemetery on deceasedonline.com

More good news from Deceased Online. With the addition of nearly 80,000 records for Woolwich Cemetery the company have now completed the full dataset for Royal Borough of Greenwich.

• Woolwich Cemetery, the last of five cemeteries managed by the Royal Borough of Greenwich in South London, has had all records digitised and added to www.deceasedonline.com.
• In total, there are now over 485,000 records for the Royal Borough which includes Eltham Crematorium as well as Charlton, Eltham, Greenwich, Plumstead and Woolwich cemeteries.
• Woolwich Cemetery opened in 1856 and features many military graves as well as some fascinating memorials.
• Read more details about this cemetery and many others within the ‘database coverage’ section on Deceased Online website.
• Victims from London’s worst-ever peacetime disaster are buried and
commemorated at Woolwich and you can read all about this in Emma Jolly’s next blog so register now at: http://deceasedonlineblog.blogspot.co.uk/
• The data for Woolwich Cemetery comprise:
• Grave details indicating those buried in each grave
• Scans of burial registers
• Cemetery maps indicating grave locations
• Some photographs of memorials and headstones

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