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: 2186-119

First burial: 1849

Last burial: 1873

Owner: William Joseph Parrott of Clarence Place, Camberwell road

Deceased:

William Joseph Parrott (1872)

Grave: 2196-119/123

First burial: 1849

Last burial: 1849

Owner: William Rose of Esher Street, Kennington Cross

Deceased:

William Danvers (1849)

Grave: 21987-125

First burial: 1887

Last burial: 1887

Owner: Henry Rickards Leete of Not specified

Deceased:

Edith Rickards Leete (1887)

Grave: 2203-119

First burial: 1849

Last burial: 1877

Owner: Hannah Sanders of Park Hill, Brixton

Deceased:

Hannah Townshend Saunders (1849)

Hannah Saunders (1852)

Mary Ann Saunders (1877)

Grave: 2204-110

First burial: 1849

Last burial: 1849

Owner: Not specified Wright of Southwark Bridge Road

Deceased:

William John Wright (1849)

Grave: 2206-122

First burial: 1849

Last burial: 1875

Owner: William Smith of New Church Street, Bermondsey, Surrey

Deceased:

Elizabeth Smith (1849)

William John Smith (1855)

William Harrison Pounds (1872)

William Smith (1873)

Edward Thomas Pounds (1875)

Grave: 2207-111

First burial: 1849

Last burial: 1849

Owner: Not specified Not specified of Not specified

Deceased:

Sarah Richardson (1849)

Grave: 2212-119

First burial: 1849

Last burial: 1854

Owner: Thomas Christopher Measam of New Church Road, Camberwell

Deceased:

Susan Matilda Measam (1849)

Thomas Christopher Measam (1854)

Grave: 2215-125

First burial: 1849

Last burial: 1873

Owner: George Howe of 5, Grosvenor Park, Camberwell

Deceased:

George Howe (1849)

Infant female child of William Bradley (1851)

Alice Howe (1859)

William Bradley (1873)

Grave: 22153-125

First burial: 1888

Last burial: 1890

Owner: Arthur Brookman of Not specified

Deceased:

Helen Smythe Brookman (1888)

Dorothy Hilda Brookman (1888)

Rebecca Trant (1890)

Grave: 22189-118

First burial: 1888

Last burial: 1892

Owner: Frederick Freeman of Not specified

Deceased:

Louisa Freeman (1888)

Stanley George Freeman (1892)

Grave: 2219-110

First burial: 1849

Last burial: 1858

Owner: Harriett Cook of New Street Square, Fleet Street

Deceased:

Thomas Frederick Cook (1849)

Harriett Cook (1858)

Grave: 2224-123

First burial: 1849

Last burial: 1849

Owner: Not specified Capper of Grove Road, North Brixton

Deceased:

Edward Wilson Capper (1849)

Grave: 2226-103

First burial: 1849

Last burial: 1891

Owner: Sarah Tanklin of 21, Tothill Street, Westminster

Deceased:

William Tanklin (1849)

Sarah Tanklin (1889)

Elizabeth Bedford (1891)

Grave: 2229-122

First burial: 1849

Last burial: 1874

Owner: Henry Arundell of 6, Webber Street, Blackfriars Road, London

Deceased:

Harriett Ellen Arundell (1849)

Ann Arundell (1864)

Henry Arundell (1874)

Grave: 22369-113

First burial: 1894

Last burial: 1896

Owner: Emma Angold of Not specified

Deceased:

James B. Angold (1894)

Joseph Angold (1896)

Grave: 2238-119

First burial: 1849

Last burial: 1983

Owner: Charles Gapper Backmann of 3, Lilford Road, Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell

Deceased:

Johan Conrad Bachmann (1849)

Charles Gapper Bachmann (1871)

Ann Bachmann (1871)

Sarah Bachmann (1894)

Frances Annie Shelvey (1902)

Francis Cutts (cremated remains) (1971)

Edwin Thomass Cutts (cremated remains) (1983)

Grave: 22408-122

First burial: 1888

Last burial: 1915

Owner: George Ernest Grout of Not specified

Deceased:

Matilda Sarah Grout (1888)

Arthur John Grout (1915)

Grave: 2254-113

First burial: 1849

Last burial: 1853

Owner: William Edward Smith of 28, Esher Street, Kennington Lane

Deceased:

Elizabeth Smith (1849)

Ann Katherine Smith (1851)

Anne Smith (1851)

William Edward Smith (1855)

Grave: 2255-113

First burial: 1849

Last burial: 1855

Owner: Sarah Worthington of Southwark Bridge Road, Southwark

Deceased:

William Henry Worthington (1849)

Sarah Worthington (1855)