John Kemble Chapman's resting place

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John Kemble Chapman's resting place

Legg inn av lyn_mcfarlane@hotmail.com » 5. februar 2008 kl. 1.31

John Kemble Chapman died 2nd September 1852 at 104 Fleet Street, St
Brides, London. The death certificate copy has DYA 193083...whatever
that means. Is anyone able to help find where he is buried please?

Hugh Watkins

Re: John Kemble Chapman's resting place

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 5. februar 2008 kl. 8.02

lyn_mcfarlane@hotmail.com wrote:
John Kemble Chapman died 2nd September 1852 at 104 Fleet Street, St
Brides, London. The death certificate copy has DYA 193083...whatever
that means. Is anyone able to help find where he is buried please?

start by lookig at St Brides parish records

possibly on film?

London Metropolitan Archives

City church yards were closed by act of parliament and the great
victorian cemeteries established

eg

The London Necropolis Company, also London Necropolis & National
Mausoleum Company, was set up in 1850, and established by Act of
Parliament in 1852. Its purpose was to create a large metropolitan
cemetery, big enough to hold all of London's dead forever. Brookwood
Cemetery was set up at Brookwood, Surrey near Woking, landscaped by
William Tite, and by 1854 it was the largest cemetery in the world.
Funeral trains ran from London Necropolis railway station, adjacent to
Waterloo station, directly to platforms within the cemetery itself.
(station bombed in WW2 and not restored)

The London Necropolis Company was dissolved around 1975, and the
cemetery has been administered privately since.

WIKI
also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:C ... _in_London

eg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highgate_Cemetery

The cemetery in its original form — the western part — opened in 1839,
part of a plan to provide seven large, modern cemeteries (known as the
"Magnificent Seven") around the outside of London. The inner-city
cemeteries, mostly the graveyards attached to individual churches, had
long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a
hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead. The initial
design was by architect and entrepreneur Stephen Geary.

Highgate, like the others, soon became a fashionable place for burials
and was much admired and visited. The Victorian attitude to death and
its presentation led to the creation of a wealth of Gothic tombs and
buildings. It occupies a spectacular south-facing hillside site slightly
downhill from the top of the hill of Highgate itself, next to Waterlow
Park, both of which were part of the former Dartmouth Park which covered
the area. . . .

so he could be anywhere

Hugh W

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