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.

Name of deceased or owner
Year to include burials from
Year to include burials until
Grave: 6570-112
First burial: 1859
Last burial: 1878
Owner: Francis Dewey of St. Marks, 9, Portland Place, Kennington, Surrey
Deceased:
Thomas Griffiths (1861)
Thomas Dewey (1878)
Grave: 66-78
First burial: 1839
Last burial: 1839
Owner: Sarah Charington of Harden Terrace, Camberwell Grove
Deceased:
George Miller Charington (1839)
Grave: 6603-111
First burial: 1859
Last burial: 1864
Owner: George Carter of Lombard Street, London
Deceased:
Ann Budd (1859)
Henry Budd (1864)
Grave: 6614-112
First burial: 1859
Last burial: 1859
Owner: Not specified Not specified of Not specified
Deceased:
John Hitchins Sanders (1859)
Grave: 6629-111
First burial: 1859
Last burial: 1859
Owner: James A. Youl of Waratch House, Clapham Park, Surrey
Deceased:
Octavia May Youl (1859)
Grave: 6632-24
First burial: 1859
Last burial: 1859
Owner: Henry Culverhouse Watts of Loughborough Park, Brixton
Deceased:
Henry Ernest Watt (1859)
Grave: 6638-63
First burial: 1859
Last burial: 1859
Owner: Not specified Not specified of Not specified
Deceased:
Frances Lane (1859)
Grave: 665-66
First burial: 1843
Last burial: 1859
Owner: John Paul of Cannon Street, City, London
Deceased:
Thomas Binney Paul (1843)
Hannah Tayler (1858)
Sarah Paul (1859)
Grave: 667-114
First burial: 1843
Last burial: 1865
Owner: James Hendry of Pancras Lane, London
Deceased:
James Hendry (1843)
William Hendry (1846)
Emily Ada Pollard (1850)
Anne Hendry (1865)
Grave: 6676-111
First burial: 1859
Last burial: 1868
Owner: Henry Sidden of 82, Blackfriars Road, Surrey
Deceased:
Laura Sidden (1859)
Henry Sidden (1868)
Grave: 671-47
First burial: 1843
Last burial: 1843
Owner: Robert Ficklin of Cambridge
Deceased:
Horace Berney (1843)
Grave: 6717-25
First burial: 1859
Last burial: 1859
Owner: John Pilcher of Stockwell Place, Clapham Road, Surrey
Deceased:
Margaret Jane Pilcher (1859)
Grave: 6740-113
First burial: 1859
Last burial: 1859
Owner: Not specified Not specified of Not specified
Deceased:
Charles William Hick (1859)
Grave: 6758-113
First burial: 1859
Last burial: 1878
Owner: Jane Gill of 9, Swan Lane, Upper Thames Street, London
Deceased:
Henry Gill (1859)
Jane Gill (1859)
Grave: 6763-119
First burial: 1859
Last burial: 1871
Owner: Eliza Bugby of South Place, Camberwell New Road, Surrey
Deceased:
Henry Bugby (1859)
Jane Mary Bugby (1868)
Eliza Bugby (1871)
Grave: 677-114
First burial: 1843
Last burial: 1867
Owner: Harriott Sophia Simmons of Denmark Row, Cold Harbour Lane
Deceased:
Jeremiah James Simmons (1843)
Rebecca Louisa Manning (1844)
Harriott Sophia Simmons (1844)
Mary Manning (1851)
Charlotte Manning (1857)
Eliza Susannah Wate (1867)
Grave: 679-90
First burial: 1843
Last burial: 1843
Owner: Elizabeth Ann Pouton of London Road, Southwark
Deceased:
John Porton (1843)
Grave: 6818-111
First burial: 1860
Last burial: 1860
Owner: Frances Augusta Julian of 2, Wesleyan Terrace, East India Road, Poplar
Deceased:
Georgiana Louisa Julian (1860)
Grave: 6835-73
First burial: 1860
Last burial: 1892
Owner: Mary Russell of Great Tower Street, London
Deceased:
Alexander Dakers Russell (1860)
Mary Ann Russell (1860)
Alfred Alexander Russell (1864)
John James Russell (1870)
William Savory Russell (1885)
Mary Russell (1892)
Grave: 6847-114
First burial: 1860
Last burial: 1860
Owner: James Murrell of Nags Head, Hackney Road
Deceased:
Emily Sarah Murrell (1860)
Grave: 685-66
First burial: 1843
Last burial: 1865
Owner: George Nott of Cornwall Road, Lambeth
Deceased:
Elizabeth Rousley (1843)
Edward George Nott (since removed to 2337) (1851)
Elizabeth Hunt (1860)
Anna Maria Hilton (1865)
Grave: 6856-113
First burial: 1860
Last burial: 1898
Owner: Mary Griffin of 18, Great Marlborough Street
Deceased:
Christian North (1860)
Mary Griffin (1898)
Grave: 6871-113
First burial: 1860
Last burial: 1860
Owner: Nathan James Budge of 1, Commercial Brixton Road, Surrey
Deceased:
Fanny Budge (1860)
Grave: 6928-47
First burial: 1860
Last burial: 1916
Owner: John Watson of "Spread Eagle", Thames Bank, Pimlico
Deceased:
Hannah Watson (1860)
Sophia Forster (1865)