Hi Lynn Large private cemeteries were established around the edge if London in the 1830s and 1840s. The 1852 Metropolitan Burials Act gave parish burial boards the authority to establish municipal cemeteries and many of these had already opened when a succession of Burial Acts in the 1850s closed the London churchyards to new burials. Some burial boards had their own cemeteries and others leased space in private or municipal ones. If your ancestors had money, they would have been more likely to have opted for a cemetery burial rather than a churchyard one, even before the latter were closed. St Giles had a bit more space than some churches in the centre of London, because they had had the foresight to lease some space near to the old St Pancras church, but by the time this was closed in the mid 1850s it was pretty grimly overcrowded. If they were "ordinary" folk, they would have probably had to rely on the designated local provision. In the case of St Giles, I think this was the Great Northern Cemetery in Southgate. The registers are still at the cemetery but they will charge you for a search. Best wishes Caroline > > Where would I find the burial information for ancestors of mine who lived > and died in St Giles, Drury Lane area in the 1850s?Would they have been > buried in the local churchyard, or by this time would it have been the larger > municipal cemeteries that were being used? > Thank you for any assistance. > Lynn > > > > . ate: 06/19/14