I need help please. I will be coming to London in May and hope to see some of the places my ancestors lived and were buried. However I have had little success in finding out about whether these cemeteries still exist. My BASS / BASSE line has many births, christenings and burials listed at St Helen Bishopsgate, London, England - the earliest being 1616. I have been unable to get any information at all about whether there is still a cemetery or burials in tombs or anything. Every time I have contacted St. Helen Bishopsgate I have received no reply. Their website appears to be a contemporary church for the youth which is meeting in the original St. Helen Bisopsgate. Would someone please tell me a little about this church and let me know if I will be able to see where my ancestors are buried at this church? Would I inquire at this church about the christenings or are the records kept elsewhere? Thank you so much in advance, Leslie Moore from Tennessee, USA

Leslie wrote <<My BASS / BASSE line has many births, christenings and burials listed at St Helen Bishopsgate,>> and <<if I will be able to see where my ancestors are buried at this church?>> You probably can see where they are buried, but it won't be where you expect it to be -and it won't be where they were buried This website, for example, http://tinyurl.com/63e8olg says of the of the City of London Cemetery, in Wanstead Flats: "There are 38 memorials to churches in the cemetery .... . When the cemetery was opened the remains of those buried in many London churchyards were disinterred and removed here and these memorials mark the points of reburial. On the left for instance is that of St Helens, Bishopsgate. The memorial indicates that the remains of eighteen generations of parishioners are buried on the spot." Don't expect your ancestors to be name on the memorial. HTH Roger Lovegrove Please do visit the LOVEGROVE Information Centre on http://www.lovegrove.f9.co.uk/ons/