GENERAL CEMETERY COMPANY, KENSAL GREEN
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0074 B/GC |
Held at | : London Metropolitan Archives Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma › |
Full title | : GENERAL CEMETERY COMPANY, KENSAL GREEN |
Date(s) | : 1830-1930 |
Level of description | : Collection |
Extent | : 1.08 linear metres |
Name of creator(s) | : General Cemetery Company | Kensal Green |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Between 1832 and 1847 Parliament authorised the establishment of eight commercial cemetery companies in the vicinity of London. The insanitary and indecent conditions in the existing overcrowded metropolitan graveyards were the motivating forces. The General Cemetery Company at Kensal Green, North Kensington, was the first of these. The company was established in 1830 and incorporated by an Act of Parliament of 1832. To obviate the opposition of the metropolitan clergy, a fee was paid to the incumbent of the parish in which each body originated.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the General Cemetery Company, Kensal Green, 1830-1930, including correspondence; papers relating to shares; financial accounts; bonds; grants, transfers and declarations of ownership of grave spaces; burial registers (1842-1850 only, other registers are held at Kensal Green Cemetery) and accounts of fees paid to incumbents of various parishes for persons removed from their parishes for interment in cemetery.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
B/GC/001-012
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited in 1979
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Related material:
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Description Notes
Archivist's note:
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
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