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VICTORIA PARK CEMETERY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/190

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: VICTORIA PARK CEMETERY

Date(s): 1847-1879

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Victoria Park Cemetery Company Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Victoria Park Cemetery was a private enterprise started by a limited company in 1845 to take advantage of the market for burials created by the inability of church graveyards to accept any more dead. However, the cemetery went bankrupt in 1853, unable to attract wealthy customers. The business was bought out by one of the directors and continued. The cemetery was not consecrated and closed in 1876. In 1885 it was turned into a recreation ground.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Victoria Park Cemetery, later known as Meath Gardens, Bethnal Green, comprising lists of names and dates of death, 1847-1879, transcribed from tombstones in April 1893 and plan showing position of graves, numbered, with key to names of persons buried, 1891.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Two documents arranged chronologically.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated to the Archive in two accessions, in 1954 and 1965. AC/65/052; AC/54/026.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Burial registers | Parish records | Documents | Information sources
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Cemeteries | Burial grounds | Public utilities | Public enterprises | Enterprises
Cemetery register | Burial records | Documents | Information sources
Company archives
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names
Victoria Park Cemetery Company Ltd

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