Welford Rd Cemetery Burial Details 1849 – 1950. CD 71

Description

Cemetery Registers

The cemetery opened in 1849 and is now used only when families still own plots with space. The cemetery is in two parts. One is consecrated for Church of England burials. The other is referred to as Unconsecrated and is used for all burials other than those in consecrated ground.

In each part, the burial numbers run consecutively until the two sequences were combined late in 1953. The records presented here are a transcription from the registrar’s register of burials. The originals are held by the Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Records Office (LLRRO) in Wigston, and photographic copies of these can be consulted at the LRFHS Research Centre, Leicester City Council Offices, or LLRRO. They are continuous from the opening of the cemetery to 1953 for the consecrated part and 1947 for the unconsecrated part.

Unconsecrated burials outnumber consecrated ones by two to one. Each BURIAL record has a SURNAME and a PLOT, so to make searching for those elusive ancestors easier, as well as a set of BURIAL files, each is repeated in SURNAME order and PLOT NUMBER order so that you can see who else is in the same grave.

File types

There are three types of files containing all 202,000 burials, and to keep the file size down so that it doesn’t take too long to load, there are five files in each type :

• BURIALS – Presenting the transcribed records in their original order,
• SURNAMES – Presenting both parts of the cemetery together alphabetically,
• PLOTS – People buried in the same plot are listed together.