Norwood is in the London Borough of Lambeth, which is in south London. Ealing is on the west side of London - not to be confused with the early registration district in the City of London. I believe the West Norwood cemetery records may be consulted at the Lambeth Record Office in Minet Road - free to personal callers. They offer a paid search facility which will obviously be much cheaper if you can identify his exact date of death. See http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/cemetery/ Hilary Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:05:23 +1030 From: Anne Chambers <anne.chambers@bigpond.com> Subject: Re: [SRY] CEMETERY HELP NORWOOD......please - William James Hillier (1871) To: eng-surrey@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4AED3A3B.4080008@bigpond.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi Pam, Do you have access to the GRO indexes on Ancestry ? If you can find his death registration (Norwood seems to have been in Ealing Registration District from 1947), that will give you a year to work on. If you then get the certificate, that will give the place of death. SNIP Pam Hillier wrote: > > > Hi all, > Thought I would post this again > There's been some chatter about cemetery's of late and thought I would ask. > My grandfather lived at 204 Selhurst Road,Norwood and my parents were > married just > down the road at the Holy Innocents Church in 1941. I imagine that the West > Norwood Cemetery would be the likely place for his burial sometime after > 1941 (family lore states after 1955) , but I have never > been able to find his death in years of looking. The Hillier name being > common and the deriviatives are mind boggling..... > Can someone tell me whether or not West Norwood Cemetery is the likely last > repose for my Grandad? Or is their another......I believe (if my brother is > right) that he died when I was a toddler, so around 1956,7,8. > It seems on google maps that it's only 3.2 miles away from their last know > address so seems likely. > many thanks in advance > Cheers Pam from Adelaide Australia

As already mentioned by others, Norwood Surrey is a different place not to be confused with Norwood Middlesex. Norwood Middlesex is near Southall and is in fact one of the ancient parishes of Middlesex but these days tends to be less well known. (Norwood Middx was originally part of Uxbridge RD but more recently Ealing RD.) The irony is that whilst the Surrey one is more well known nowadays, it is in fact comparatively modern as a populous area - taking its name from "north wood" which was the forested area north of Croydon. For greater London cemeteries this site remains a good guide: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/cem.html Ann Surrey Admin