Cemetery grave database

This database holds details of illegally reused graves in West Norwood Cemetery and has been created following a Consistory Court judgement.

For details on the background to this database, and the course of action to take if you find that a relative is interred under the original grant of rights in a resold plot, read our West Norwood Cemetery historical and legal background webpage.

Burials at West Norwood Cemetery which were undisturbed are not listed here, but can be found in the normal cemetery registers held in Lambeth Archives and the cemetery office.

For more information on the cemetery, visit the Friends of West Norwood Cemetery (FOWNC) website.

For more information on burials in the cemetery, or to get complete lists of burials email Lambeth Archives at archives@lambeth.gov.uk or go to Lambeth Archives for opening times.

Use this search to find details of resold graves and information on their original owners, those buried under the original grant of rights, and when they were buried.

Grave: 976-80

First burial: 1844

Last burial: 1873

Owner: William Todd of High Street, Clapham

Deceased:

Willam Todd (1873)

Grave: 9774-18

First burial: 1865

Last burial: 1887

Owner: Samuel Winsom Gardener of 3 Kennington Terrace, Lambeth, Surrey

Deceased:

Eliza Gardner (1865)

Helen Gardner (1875)

Samuel Winsom Gardner (1887)

Grave: 9784-114

First burial: 1865

Last burial: 1876

Owner: George Potter of Park Street, Southwark, Surrey

Deceased:

Ann Potter (1865)

George Potter (1873)

Mary Dinah Stevens (1876)

Grave: 980-78

First burial: 1844

Last burial: 1863

Owner: Elizabeth Gladman Hellmers of Southend, Croydon

Deceased:

Diederich Hellmers (1844)

Elizabeth Gladman Hellmers (1863)

Grave: 9878-102

First burial: 1865

Last burial: 1865

Owner: Charles Thomas Evans Lascelles of Forest Hill, Kent

Deceased:

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Grave: 989-89

First burial: 1844

Last burial: 1844

Owner: Jonathan Duncan Dow of Paragou, Brixton Hill, Surrey

Deceased:

Still-born child Dow (1844)

Grave: 993-118

First burial: 1844

Last burial: 1918

Owner: Thomas Thurling of Red Lion Street, Holborn

Deceased:

Joshua Thurling (1844)

Thomas Thurling (1861)

Susan Thurling (1864)

John Wilson (1868)

Frances Thurling (1884)

Anne Wilson (1887)

Annie Susan Wilson (1918)

Grave: 994-85

First burial: 1844

Last burial: 1844

Owner: John James Hucks of Kennington Oval, Lambeth.

Deceased:

Sarah Matilda Hucks (1844)

Grave: 995-73

First burial: 1844

Last burial: 1844

Owner: John Bright of Brunswick Place, Brixton Hill

Deceased:

Mary Bright (1844)

Grave: 996-78

First burial: 1844

Last burial: 1844

Owner: Not specified Not specified of Not specified

Deceased:

Edward Fry (1844)

Grave: 998-78

First burial: 1844

Last burial: 1844

Owner: James Gilson Simpson of Laurence Pountney Lane, London

Deceased:

Mary Simpson (1844)