Hi all, This is my first posting to the list so please bear with me!  I am researching my family history and I would be grateful if you could please let me know if there are any books or lists of memorial inscriptions for East London Cemetery which have been recorded for the 1900s as I have found out that my ancestors were buried at East London Cemetery from their burial records but apparently no headstone exists there so I would like to trace the original memorial inscription. Kind regards Michelle

Hi Michelle, and welcome. It would be very helpful if you could tell us (at least) your ancestor's name and date of death (more would be better), and give details of how you know where s/he was buried - i.e. what exactly do you mean by "their burial record" and where did you get it from? How do you know that no headstone is there? Spill the beans! Like all hungry bloodhounds, we rootsweb bods need some real breadcrumbs to sniff. As Joe Walsh's song says, 'we're just looking for clues at the scene of the crime' - i.e. clueless - unless you can tell us where to look? Also, follow Mike's tips for yourself, via Google or Yahoo etc. Good luck, Lawrence On 01/06/2013 16:54, M. Connolly wrote: > Hi all, > > > This is my first posting to the list so please bear with me! I am researching my family history and I would be grateful if you could please let me know if there are any books or lists of memorial inscriptions for East London Cemetery which have been recorded for the 1900s as I have found out that my ancestors were buried at East London Cemetery from their burial records but apparently no headstone exists there so I would like to trace the original memorial inscription. > > Kind regards > > Michelle > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

On 2013/06/01 17:54, M. Connolly wrote: > This is my first posting to the list so please bear with me! I am > researching my family history and I would be grateful if you could please let > me know if there are any books or lists of memorial inscriptions for East > London Cemetery which have been recorded for the 1900s as I have found out > that my ancestors were buried at East London Cemetery from their burial > records but apparently no headstone exists there so I would like to trace the > original memorial inscription. There are three main cemeteries used by residents of the east of London. There's Manor Park Cemetery and Crematorium, City of London Cemetery and Crematorium, and there's Abney Park. If you Google 'London cemeteries', you'll get a lot of information and web sites that you can search. Abney Park records are online at <freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~abneypark/abneyy.html> as are some of the Manor Park records at <www.deceasedonline.com> -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg

On 2013/06/01 17:54, M. Connolly wrote: > This is my first posting to the list so please bear with me! I am > researching my family history and I would be grateful if you could please let > me know if there are any books or lists of memorial inscriptions for East > London Cemetery which have been recorded for the 1900s as I have found out > that my ancestors were buried at East London Cemetery from their burial > records but apparently no headstone exists there so I would like to trace the > original memorial inscription. Unlike other parts of the world, headstones and memorial inscriptions are the exception rather than the rule in England. Class and affluence tended to dictate whether or not a headstone ever existed. Most poorer people from the East End tended to be buried in communal plots, and the only records would be the cemetery records giving the burial date and indicating where the location of the plot. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg