Having discovered that my ancestor Jonathan Hawes who died in Hoxton, London was buried here in 1864, we visited today having got a map of the rough area and the grave number and the other occupants of the grave found on this site:
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We couldn't find the grave, though payment of £8 to
Abney Park Trust: Welcome would have given a more accurate location. It's the sort of place your London ancestor with money would have been buried, every grave has a gravestone. It's heavily wooded now, many graves covered in ivy and there were some iffy characters hanging about so I was glad to have OH riding shotgun.
But on the up side :D there's now a photo in the Stoke Newington section of the London/Middx Places of Worship of the cemetery chapel where the funerals would have taken place
Middlesex Towns and Parishes S - Family Tree Forum
Development Systems UK
We couldn't find the grave, though payment of £8 to
Abney Park Trust: Welcome would have given a more accurate location. It's the sort of place your London ancestor with money would have been buried, every grave has a gravestone. It's heavily wooded now, many graves covered in ivy and there were some iffy characters hanging about so I was glad to have OH riding shotgun.
But on the up side :D there's now a photo in the Stoke Newington section of the London/Middx Places of Worship of the cemetery chapel where the funerals would have taken place
Middlesex Towns and Parishes S - Family Tree Forum
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