Copy Burial Register

Description

Manuscript contemporary copy of the first burial register for the Leeds General Cemetery Company. The last page of the volume has not been used, there are 626 entries.


A handwritten note attached to the the fly-leaf by Reverend James Rawson, Registrar, explains that the original register was sent to the Office of the Registration Commission on 27 July 1837. The fly-leaf also includes an attached receipt from the Office of the Registration Commission for the original register.

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Physical and technical conditions

Covers of the volume are worn and binding is damaged. Many of the pages are loose from the binding, some have tears and damage to the right-hand edge, and many of the bottom right-hand corners of the pages are folded over.

Related material

The General Register Office collected a large number of nonconformist and non-parochial birth, marriage, death and burial registers in 1837 when civil registration began. The original 1835-1837 burial register would have been sent to London as part of this. This original register is now held by The National Archives [ref no: RG 4/3753].

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Index

View the detailed entries in the burial register index