Genealogy Chat

Is there a site to show where people were cremated? When did cremation become popular?

Think it started about 1874 and then more and more people wanted to be cremated rather than buried.

Betty

Thank you Betty. I didnt realise it was that early.
That might explain why people cant find burial places

The Cremation Society of Great Britain
History of Modern Cremation in Great Britain from 1874: The First Hundred Years

(Written in 1974 on the occasion of the Cremation Society's Centenary)



http://www.srgw.demon.co.uk/CremSoc/History/HistSocy.html#introduction

Here in NZ my grandparents were all cremated in the crematorium in Waikumete cemetery. Their names are on the cemetery records, with the fact they were cremated and their ashes were scattered, so at least I know what happened to them, even if I dont have a 'spot' to visit.
Huia.

In other words, the cemetery in which the crematorium is placed would have records, I would imagine, and if the crematorium is a stand-alone thing it would still have records.

Huia.

Hi Huia.
Im also down under in Auckland.

Thank you everyone for helping

"It was in Llantrisant, on the 18th January 1884, that the 83-year-old Dr William Price truly made history.

Believing burial to be damaging to the environment, he cremated the dead body of his five-month-old son, Iesu Grist Price (Jesus Christ Price).

Cremation was illegal in Britain at the time, but Dr Price's success in the following court case prepared the way for the Cremation Act 1902"

Hi Claire.
How interesting. I thought the reason for cremation was to save space which I expect it does.
I wonder how common it was in the early days though?

Other countries have cremation, think of the funeral pyres in India.

Huia.