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Cemeteries information for Halifax and places above it in the hierarchy

Halifax

  • Lister Lane cemetery, Halifax, is the last resting place for many eminent and influential people who helped to shape the growth of Halifax and played an active part in political reform and social change. The Crossleys of Dean Clough, Ben Rushton (a popular Chartist), JD Taylor (Halifax Building Society) JH Whitley (Speaker of the House of Commons) and many other local people. There were approximately 13,000 burials on the site and a database has been compiled; for information on the database,
  • St. Paul's at Cross Stone: A full transcription of all the grave occupants, complete with a surname index. This church and burial ground served the folk of Langfield and Stansfield as a chapel of ease to Halifax Parish Church, and a sister church to Heptonstall. There are literally thousands of graves as the burial ground is still in use.
    The work of transcribing all the graves was done by Todmorden enthusiasts Robert Priestley and Jean and David Uttley. It took about 25 years!
  • A fully searchable index of over 8,000 burials at St Matthew's Church along with around 300 headstone photographs, which is free of charge to view.
  • Shelf St Michael and All Angels MI's (on the South Bradford Local History Alliance website).
  • Here is a photograph of Wainsgate Cemetery, Hebden Bridge.
  • Here are two photographs of the graveyard at Luddenden Dean (the chapel burnt down in 1954).
  • The Cemetery Chapel, Rastrick.
  • The site of the Quaker Graveyard, Birds Royd Lane, Rastrick.
  • The Monumental Inscriptions for Halifax St. Paul's have been transcribed by Susan Johnson and Indexed by Patricia Hayward.
  • Monumental inscriptions of the Sutcliffe stones at Heptonstall St. Thomas by Melanie Whitehead.

Yorkshire

  • During our visits to Yorkshire, I have taken over 60,000 photographs of graves in the East Riding. You can access the Graves Surname index here.
  • In her travels round the county, Mel Towler has built up a large number of "Stray" inscriptions. These have been posted to Yorksgen and other lists one at a time and can be seen here, listed complete up to December 2001.

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.