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  • Abney Park Cemetery, Victorian Londoners' burial place

    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

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    I found that my cousin's great-grandmother was buried there. She had been in an unmarked grave and my cousin discovered that many of these burials had been "relocated". So not everyone buried there had money. I believe that the cemetery became derelict after the cemetery company went bust some 20 years ago. The Trust appears to have a lot of catching up to do.
    Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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    • #3
      The first grave we saw as we went through an entrance in Stoke Newington Church Street was that of William & Catherine Booth, founders of the Salvation Army (and the Booth poverty map of London) - they would have been horrified at the drunks there.

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      • #4
        Jill on the other side of Stoke Newington Church Street further west is 165, a shop now selling bikes and called Two Legs Good. It's almost opposite the library.

        In 1917 it was a picture framer's, run my my grandparents and it was there that my father was born.
        ~ with love from Little Nell~
        Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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        • #5
          If I'd have known I'd have said hello for you! If I ever feel like stumping up the £8 we'll go back esp now I've found a bus goes directly there from London Bridge station. Took a few other pics for the POW project too.

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          • #6
            The Abney Park Cemetery Chapel looks a lovely building Jill, what a shame it is derelict.

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            • #7
              A lot of my Macks are buried there but I have never visited due to the fact that someone told me once about the dodgy characters hanging about. I cannot imagine that my Macks has much money so I doubt the graves would be marked anyway.

              Thank you for posting the pictures.

              Jeannie

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              • #8
                As a kid, my piano teacher was the chaplain there, he always wanted to give me a guided tour of the place, not my cup of tea at all, so I declined. Afterwards in my late teens I found that Grandma was burried there and could have done with a bit of help locating her plot! But, as a pauper her plot was only marked for a short period of time, 40 years I believe. (she died in 1925) So, although she is there in body, that's it! no idea where!
                Last edited by Sue at the seaside; 12-04-09, 14:01.
                Sue x


                Looking for Hanmores in Kent, Blakers in Essex and Kent, Pickards in East London and Raisons in Somerset.

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                • #9
                  If I go again I'll put up a thread so I can take pictures for anyone who needs them.

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                  • #10
                    Thank you for the link, found two of mine although one is an uncle, did pose question of why he was in a mental institution!
                    Teresa

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