Any Burial index information or MI'S you wish to donate here would be most welcome

History

By the 1820,s church yards were overcrowded three privately run cemeteries were opened.

Necropolis in 1825, St. James Cemetery in 1829 and St Mary’s Cemetery, Kirkdale in 1837.

In the 1850s overcrowded parish graveyards were closed and large municipal cemeteries were opened on the outskirts of the town.

Toxteth Park in 1856, Kirkdale in 1881, Anfield in 1863, West Derby 1884, Everton in 1880, Allerton in 1909. Also Walton Parochial cemetery, Rice Lane, opened 1856

Some of the cemeteries had separate denominational sections, C of E, R.C, and Nonconformist.

R.C, cemeteries, Ford opened 1859, Ainsdale 1884, Yew Tree, West Derby in 1893

Until 1885 cremation was illegal in this country. The Liverpool Crematorium was opened at Anfield Cemetery in 1896.

St Bartholomews Roby burials up to 1900

St Bartholomews Roby burials 1900-1918

Inscriptions Huyton Graveyard, St Michael's

Extracts from Childwall burial index and some MI'S

St Thomas, Upholland, Burials, SWIFT / GASKELL

MI'S St Thomas Upholland

Burials St Mary's Walton-on-the-Hill

Burials Walton Park, cemetery, Rice lane

Burials the Necropolis

MI'S from Kirkdale cemetery, Longmoor Lane

MI'S Everton Cemetery, Long Lane

St Michaels-in-the-Hamlet, Burials

Ford R.C, cemetery, Gorsey Lane, Litherland, MI,s

St James Cemetery MI'S

Misc burials Holy Trinity, [St Annes St]

Interment of Blitz victims Anfield 1941

A philosophic and self-possessed ship's captain was passing through a graveyard at midnight, when a sheeted ghost rose up from behind a tombstone, and approached him with menacing gestures. The Ancient Mariner coolly raised his stick and gave it a crack over the head, asking, "What it meant being out of it's grave at so late an hour?"