Genealogy Chat

Gary, You could also try Kensal Green, thats were most of my Paddington / Marylebone Family are, its well worth a visit If you are in the area. they hold open days and guided tours.

Web site http://www.kensalgreencemetery.com

Although cremation was legal then, it was not the choice of people. Even paupers were buried until about 1925. A great many areas did not have crematoriums until the 1960s.

My lot lived in Marylebone until 1939/40. Many of them are buried in St Marylebone Cemetery which opened in 1855 (crematorium opened in 1937), but changed its name in the early 1990's, to East Finchley Cemetery.
It comes under Westminster City Council and is in East End Road, East Finchley. (Northern Line:- East Finchley).

For enquiries and location of graves phone 0208 567 0913, the chap there is extremely helpful, you'll need to give him the deceased's name & date of death.
BUT, I don't know if ALL Marylebone deaths were buried here.
There are at least another 2 cemeteries which serve the area, Mill Hill (formerly Paddington New Cemetery) and Hanwell (formerly City of Westminster cemetery), the Mill Hill/Paddington could come under London borough of Brent.

K

Yeah - which makes me think it was in one of the outside cemeteries, that wasn't connected to a church as such, which I think means it didn't make it on any of their records (the whole doesn't make it easier that the person's name I'm looking for was William Henry Taylor and it seems that there was one of these living on every second road in London...) I know when he died just wanted to pay my final respects, if there was any memorial at all

Have you looked for a burial record on Ancestry's LMA records?

True - cremation is certainly a possibility. The problem with London is that the majority of graveyards in the centre were full up, so I know people tended to be buried in graveyards on the outskirts, so it may be that he was buried somewhere a fair distance away - just wondered if there was a main one for people dying in this area

Gary

They may have been cremated ...

If you have the death certificate you could work your way outwards checking churchyards and graveyards.

There are several sites giving maps of London around the turn of the century.

Jill

Just a quickie

If someone died in Marylebone in N London in 1911 where are they most likely to be buried?

Gary