Memorial stones are still in place. See Google Maps Street View at: http://goo.gl/maps/QZmne Also there are a number of photographs on the same website of graves including for John Bunyan and William Blake at: http://goo.gl/maps/Nj1Sk David -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 20 September 2012 12:02 To: Judy Mann; Judy Mann; [email protected] Subject: Re: [MDX] New Bunhill Fields Burial Ground > I have a burial from 1848 from "New Bunhill Fields Burial Ground" > In the last column titled "Where buried" lists lower ground. Just a section of the Fields, in a fairly built up area even then, where small plots were acquired from time to time to extend the graveyard. I think Upper ground was the first one, after which they bought new space, and this was the way they described it, for the convenience of the cemetery keepers. Normally people bought a grave s[pave which would accommodate six, over the two years, and subsequent family burials meant a reopening of the right grave. Most in Bunhill Burial ground were marked, I believe, since the occupants were the better-off nonconformists in London. I have a notion that when the burial grouind was closed, it became a garden with seats, and it is likely that stones would have been moved to the edges of the area. EVE Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society
David (and Eve?) This is a different burial ground. The OP was enquiring about *New* Bunhill Fields, which is adjacent to St Mary Islington. HTH Judy London, UK -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Railton Memorial stones are still in place. See Google Maps Street View at: http://goo.gl/maps/QZmne Also there are a number of photographs on the same website of graves including for John Bunyan and William Blake at: http://goo.gl/maps/Nj1Sk David -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 20 September 2012 12:02 To: Judy Mann; Judy Mann; [email protected] Subject: Re: [MDX] New Bunhill Fields Burial Ground > I have a burial from 1848 from "New Bunhill Fields Burial Ground" > In the last column titled "Where buried" lists lower ground. Just a section of the Fields, in a fairly built up area even then, where small plots were acquired from time to time to extend the graveyard. I think Upper ground was the first one, after which they bought new space, and this was the way they described it, for the convenience of the cemetery keepers. Normally people bought a grave s[pave which would accommodate six, over the two years, and subsequent family burials meant a reopening of the right grave. Most in Bunhill Burial ground were marked, I believe, since the occupants were the better-off nonconformists in London. I have a notion that when the burial grouind was closed, it became a garden with seats, and it is likely that stones would have been moved to the edges of the area. EVE Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society