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Durham Family History PDF DURHAM FAMILY HISTORY CEMETERIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE DURHAM FAMILY PAGE UPDATED 19 APRIL 2013 Brockley Cemetery, formerly Deptford Cemetery, was opened 1858 on previously open land, and is a characteristic example of the first EVANS wave of Victorian public cemeteries, and is now part of the Brockley Conservation Area. Together with Ladywell Cemetery, previously BROCKLEY CEMETERY, 2 FAMILY known as Lewisham Cemetery, it occupies 37 acres (150,000m ) of land wholly within the London Borough of Lewisham and is owned KENT and managed by the Cemeteries and Crematorium Services of the Borough. They are also nature conservation sites of Borough 8 people Importance Grade 1 and a haven for wildlife, plants and wildflowers. Both cemeteries hold a wealth of historical interest. Evidence of Deptford's seafaring past can be found in the many inscriptions and adornments on the headstones. The area was originally pleasure gardens, opened in 1834, but turned into a cemetery in 1837, as the 'Gravesend & Milton Cemetery DURHAM GRAVESEND CEMETERY, Company'. The first burial in the cemetery took place in 1839. The original cemetery company was declared bankrupt in 1847 but the FAMILY cemetery continued in private ownership until 1905 when it was acquired by Gravesend Corporation. The Lodge, Chapel and KENT 5 people Catacombs and the original part of the cemetery are Grade 2 listed and are also included on the English Heritage Register for Parks and Gardens of Historic Interest Greenwich Cemetery was founded 1856 by the Burial Board. There are two Gothic chapels, and a 1930’s lodge. Around the cemetery DURHAM are railings, and brick piers with stone capitals. There are panoramic views from top of hill of Crystal Palace and towards the City. There are various areas within the cemetery such as Great War Heroes Corner and Commonwealth Burial Ground, a Norwegian section for GREENWICH, KENT FAMILY refugees of World War II, and a Children's section. Due to the proximity of the military academy and other institutions at Woolwich, there 4 people are many soldiers buried here. As almost all the Durham deaths in the area occurred before 1856, perhaps they are not buried here, but at St Alphege’s Church, Greenwich Nunhead Cemetery is perhaps the least known, but most attractive, of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, NUNHEAD CEMETERY, DURHAM it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London. It contains examples of the SURREY FAMILY magnificent monuments erected in memory of the most eminent citizens of the day, which contrast sharply with the small, simple ALL SAINTS' CEMETERY 18 people headstones marking common, or public, burials. It's formal avenue of towering limes and the Gothic gloom of the original Victorian planting gives way to paths which recall the country lanes of a bygone era also known as (West) Norwood Cemetery, it is a 40-acre (16 ha) cemetery in West Norwood, London Borough of Lambeth, consecrated KNOTT in 1837 - one of the first private landscaped cemeteries in London, it is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries of London, and is a NORWOOD, SURREY, site of major historical, architectural and ecological interest. Its grounds are a mixture of historic monumental cemetery and modern SOUTH METROPOLITAN FAMILY lawn cemetery, but it also has catacombs, cremation plots and a columbarium for cindery ashes. The cemetery's crematorium still CEMETERY 3 people operates, and cremation plots are still available, but all the conventional burial plots have been allocated and hence it is closed to new burials pending further agreement under current burial legislation NOT KNOWN JACOB DURHAM I (about 1790-1866) ┌───────────────────────┴──────────┐ ALEXANDER WILLIAM JAMES DURHAM CHARLES JACOB DURHAM (1813-48) (about 1815-1870) buried 21 NOV 1870 SARAH JANE SHEPHERD ANN FRANCES SMITH (1818-46) (about 1820-1876) ┌───────┬──────┼──────┬──────┐ ┌────────┬────────┬────────┬────────┼───────┬────────┬────────┬────────┐ JAMES CHARLES JOHN ALEXANDER SARAH ELIZABETH SARAH wives of CHARLES JAMES EMMA MARY ANN HENRIETTA GEORGIN(I)A JACOB EVAN SHEPHERD ANTHONY ANN ANN JANE WILLIAM JOHN EDWARD LOUISA DURHAM IIIIII SARAH MORRIS DURHAM DURHAM DURHAM DURHAM DURHAM IVIVIV DURHAM DURHAM JACOB DURHAM I DURHAM I DURHAM (1856-1922) DURHAM DURHAM (1839-56) (1841-75) (1842-5) (1844-1919) (1846-1915) (1839-1928) JOHN SMITH (1845-95) JESSIE (1851-74) buried (1861-1959) ROBERT buried buried FREDERICK JAMES DURHAM buried MORRIS buried 27 NOV 1922 cremated ELLERKER 17 MAY 1 APR 1875 ALPHONSE FENN (died in 29 AUG 1895 SHEPHERD 11 NOV 1874 WALTER CHARLES LEWIN 1919 SUSANNAH KNOTT S. Africa) ADA ALICE ~~~ FRANK MESSINGHAM EDITH AMELIA (1835-1906) HENRIETTA LEANEY ALICE EVANS SHEPHERD IIIIII O’DONAGHUE MARIA MARTIN (1853-80) MATILDA (1858-95) (1864-1915) (1843-1920) BREWERTON (1841-69) DURHAM buried (1855-85) buried (1858-65) 20 JAN 2 APR 1869 buried 1920 LOUISA 1 SEP 1865 WHENMAN (1846-80) buried 20 JUN 1880 │ ┌─ ─── ────┘┌─── ────┬─────────────────┐ HENRIETTA JOHN C. CHARLES HUGH WALTER EDITH ANN GEORGE CHARLOTTE CHARLES ELIZABETH FENN WILIAM MONTGOMERY GEORGE EVANS MILLER MAUD JOSEPH KNOTT (1866) DURHAM IIIIII DURHAM JAMES WILLIAM EVANS EVANS LEWIN (1870) (1866-1948) (1886) EVANS HARDING (1886-1919) ALFRED (1890) buried buried ANN(IE) HARRIETT (1879-1923) buried VICTOR buried 9 SEP 1886 2 DEC 1870 WIGLEY VII JULIA buried 30 JUL 1919 JOSLING 3 SEP 1890 26 JAN 1923 (1872-1950) DENNIS (1882-1947) ? ┌─────────────┐ ──┬────────────┐ HENRY CHARLES LESLIE DAVID WALTER GEORGE VICTOR LEONARD STANLEY ARTHUR LYGO DURHAM DURHAM EVANS EVANS WALTER WILLIAM S. (1892-1962) (1897-1940) (1902-27) (1914-1928) HARDING JOSLING ANNIE ETHEL buried (1911-12) (1908-9) COBLEY 2 SEP 1927 (1892-1961) .
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