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Cemeteries information for St Mary, Louth, Roman Catholic and places above it in the hierarchy

St Mary, Louth, Roman Catholic

The church does not have a graveyard.

Louth

  • Derek VOLLER has a photograph of an old graveyard on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2015. It is now a lovely and quiet parkland.
     
  • A new ten-acre cemetery was formed in 1854 on the London Road. The following year, two mortuary chapels were erected and the Louth Burial Board established. A portion was set aside for dissenters (Non-conformists).
     
  • In 1884 an additional four acres was added on the west side.
     
  • The cemetery was under the administration of the Burial Board of the town corporation. They will search for individual burials, but not everyone of a given surname.
     
  • There are over 29,000 burials at the Cemetery which was first opened in 1855.
     
  • Richard CROFT has a photograph of a burial chapel on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2008.
     

Lincolnshire

England

  • For details of the graves of the rich and famous, together with biographical information, look at the Find-a-Grave (England) page.

UK and Ireland

  • The National Burial Index is hosted by findmypast (subscription site).
  • List of Registered Cemeteries from Historic England.
  • Gravestone photograph resource: an "index of the names that appear on photos taken by the Gravestone Photographic Resource Project team". This valuable project provides email copies of any of its collection of grave monument images free of charge on request.
  • The Deceased Online website -"the first central database of statutory burial and cremation registers for the UK and Republic of Ireland" (subscription site).
  • The Church Monuments Society provides photographs of the more interesting monuments (NOT monumental inscriptions) in a limited number of church yards.
  • Index for Burials at Sea - from Ancestry and FindaGrave.