‘Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.’
~ Samuel Beckett
I love, love, LOVE graveyards!
If I’m not in search of a missing ancestor or researching another life long lost to history or poring over the details on a newly discovered and often indecipherable certificate of death or trawling through the parish records in search of a burial entry – I’ll be wandering among the tombstones somewhere!
Being able to locate the final resting place of those from my research endeavours has always been an important task and an unsuccessful search is disappointing as the final piece of the jigsaw remains missing.
The graveyards and cemeteries I haunt with frequency in and around Yorkshire and beyond include just SOME of the following:
YORK:
All churchyards within the City of York including:
Parish Church of St Stephen’s Acomb
Dringhouses Cemetery
York Cemetery
Fulford Cemetery
YORKSHIRE:
Undercliffe Cemetery Bradford
Beckett Street Cemetery Leeds
Killingbeck Cemetery Leeds
New Malton Cemetery
Parish Church of St Mary’s Scarborough
Dean’s Road and Manor Road Cemetery Scarborough
SCOTLAND:
The Necropolis Glasgow
Ramshorn Graveyard Glasgow
Greyfriars Kirkyard Edinburgh
Dean Cemetery Edinburgh
LONDON:
Kensal Green Cemetery
Brompton Cemetery
Highgate Cemetery
Nunhead Cemetery
Although I have a vast portfolio of cemetery and graveyard images in my collection – I undertake the research with the use of parish records and newspapers to locate and photograph a grave for clients.
In the absence of a marked grave I can also research, locate and photograph the surrounding vicinity in which an ancestor rests.
I am also happy to undertake crematoria research including the crematoriums at York, Octon and Scarborough.
However, as every research commission is as unique as the person who is requesting it – our informal chat by way of my no-obligation initial consultation will ensure that my time spent among the dead is productive for both you and I.
