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: 20840-125

First burial: 1885

Last burial: 1885

Owner: Ruth Cooper of Not specified

Deceased:

Joseph Cooper (1885)

Grave: 2089-119

First burial: 1848

Last burial: 1869

Owner: John Jones (dec'd) of Grecian Cottages, Norwood, Surrey

Deceased:

Edward Boyce Jones (1848)

Susan Jones (1869)

Grave: 20908-122

First burial: 1885

Last burial: 1885

Owner: Francisco J (or I) Forrome of Not specified

Deceased:

Wilfred Forrome (1885)

Grave: 2097-112

First burial: 1848

Last burial: 1848

Owner: Henry Ranking of Earls Wood, Reigate, Surrey

Deceased:

Arabella Ranking (1848)

Grave: 20976-125

First burial: 1885

Last burial: 1887

Owner: Ann & James Tipping of Not specified

Deceased:

Susan Harrington (1885)

Ann Tipping (1887)

Grave: 2099-111

First burial: 1848

Last burial: 1848

Owner: Ann Stedman of Prospect Row, Walworth

Deceased:

James Edmund Stedman (1848)

Grave: 21001-122

First burial: 1885

Last burial: 1897

Owner: John Still of Not specified

Deceased:

Susanna Still (1885)

John Still (1897)

Grave: 21016-125

First burial: 1886

Last burial: 1901

Owner: James Cowling of Not specified

Deceased:

Dorothy Susan Cowling (1886)

Francis J. S. Cowling (1901)

Grave: 21023-125

First burial: 1886

Last burial: 1886

Owner: Robert Belson Warwick of Not specified

Deceased:

Emma Belson (1886)

Grave: 2107-103

First burial: 1848

Last burial: 1848

Owner: Amelia Spence Shrimpton of Clapham Common, Surrey

Deceased:

Solomon Shrimpton (1848)

Grave: 21074-125

First burial: 1886

Last burial: 1890

Owner: Thomas Ino Green of Not specified

Deceased:

Elizabeth Green (1886)

Thomas John Green (1890)

Grave: 2108-123/124

First burial: 1867

Last burial: 1867

Owner: James John Charles Child of High Street, Norwood, Surrey

Deceased:

Charlotte Child (1867)

Grave: 2109-123

First burial: 1848

Last burial: 1886

Owner: John Edward Smyth of 166, Lambeth Walk, Lambeth.

Deceased:

Susan Frances Smyth (1848)

Susanna Curran (1870)

Annette Curran (1881)

John Edward Smyth (1885)

Susannah Ireland Smyth (1886)

Grave: 2110-110

First burial: 1848

Last burial: 1868

Owner: James George Alexander Diggens of Newington Place, Surrey

Deceased:

David Sandell (1848)

Jane Huyton (1868)

Grave: 2114-113

First burial: 1848

Last burial: 1859

Owner: Henry Fisk of 15, New Cut, Lambeth

Deceased:

Eliza Maitland (1848)

Ann Eliza Halman (1856)

Frances Maitland (1865)

Herbert Edward Halman (1865)

Henry Maitland (1866)

Madeline Halman (1868)

Grave: 21159-122

First burial: 1886

Last burial: 1886

Owner: Julius Peter Lafrentz of Not specified

Deceased:

Ernest Albert Lafrentz (1886)

Grave: 2117-122

First burial: 1848

Last burial: 1848

Owner: Richard Glass of Haling Cottage, Croydon

Deceased:

Ellen Glass (1848)

Grave: 21181-122

First burial: 1886

Last burial: 1886

Owner: Michael Alexander Gabb of Not specified

Deceased:

Thomas Knox Fortesene (1886)

Grave: 2119-110

First burial: 1848

Last burial: 1872

Owner: William Howard of 3, Canal Place, Old Kent Road

Deceased:

Elizabeth Bradshaw (1848)

Ellen Strong (1868)

Elizabeth Strong (1869)

Sarah Howard (1869)

William Howard (1870)

Percy M. Strong (1872)

Grave: 212-63

First burial: 1840

Last burial: 1840

Owner: Charles Lemoir Greaves of 3, Crown Place, Fulham

Deceased:

Charles Edward Stuart Greaves (1840)

Grave: 2122-113

First burial: 1848

Last burial: 1873

Owner: Henry Sleep of 12, St. Andrews Road, newington

Deceased:

Maud Sleep (1848)

Alice Florence Fulljames (1860)

Henry Sleep (1873)

Grave: 21234-125

First burial: 1886

Last burial: 1892

Owner: John Palmer of Not specified

Deceased:

Margaret Palmer (1886)

John Palmer (1892)

Grave: 21302-125

First burial: 1886

Last burial: 1886

Owner: Mary Ann Graves of Not specified

Deceased:

William Curtis Graves (1886)

Grave: 21303-125

First burial: 1886

Last burial: 1886

Owner: Edward Wood of Not specified

Deceased:

Ellen Wood (1886)

Grave: 2132-103

First burial: 1848

Last burial: 1865

Owner: Maria Wallis Thwaites of 17, Upper Kennington Green

Deceased:

Thomas Thwaites (1848)

Maria Wallis Thwaites (1865)

Grave: 2133-114

First burial: 1848

Last burial: 1881

Owner: Alfred Warwick of Camberwell New Road, Camberwell, Surrey

Deceased:

Christopher Warwick (1848)