12 July 2013

230,000 West Yorkshire burial records

Records for twenty cemeteries and two crematoria of the Wakefield Metropolitan District Council can now be searched on Deceased Online That totals nearly 230,000 burial and cremation records added to the database for the industrial towns of Castleford, Featherstone, Knottingley, Pontefract and the city of Wakefield.
There's information on the cemeteries at http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/BereavementServices/Cemeteries.htm and a free search from http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/BereavementServices/GenealogySearches/default.htm


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