Anfield Cemetery Liverpool

The Friend's Anfield Cemetery have the Diaries of Anfield Cemetery (1938 - 2000), these were rescued from a giant pulping machine in the year 2000 by Bob Halliday. Along with these diaries, Bob also rescued some; Church of England, Roman Catholic and General Section Deeds. We are in the process of scanning the diaries and deeds, as they are beginning to fall apart.  

We are willing to check for a burial at Anfield Cemetery for FREE. If we find a burial we charge £5 to supply the details.

      We require:

  • The full name
  • Date of death/date of burial
  • Approximate age or date of birth
  • Their religion if known
  • If you have an address, that might also be of help
  • If you have the name of a spouse, parents or children, that also may be of help
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      Information that can be provided:
  1. Age
  2. Address
  3. Section & Plot Number
  4. Whether a Newly Bought Plot or Subsequent Burial in an Existing Plot  
    	
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	Payment via www.PayPal.co.uk to email address: pat@paddygreengrass.co.uk
	If you wish to pay by cheque/check, we accept sterling cheques/checks.
	Just send us an email and we will send you a postal address.
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Here is an example of a CofE & a RC Anfield Deed:
			
	

We would like to get as many as possible of these Deeds back to the families that own them. So if you would like us to search through them, please contact: pat@paddygreengrass.co.uk

Please provide as much information that you can. If you have the Section & Plot Number that would help a lot. If you can't provide that information, just tell us who may be in the plot and roughly when they were interred. We will be providing this service for twelve months, starting in January 2012. After Twelve months if we have not reunited any of these deeds with the families that own them, we will deposite them at the Liverpool Record Office.

(Site Under Construction)

History of Anfield Cemetery

Opened in August 1863, Anfield Cemetery or Liverpool Cemetery as it was originally known, covers a 110 acre site on Priory Road, North Liverpool, adjacent to Stanley Park and sitting between the stadiums of the famous football clubs of Everton and Liverpool.

Such is the size and age of Anfield Cemetery that it is almost inevitable that it should reflect much of Liverpool's history and culture and there are many prominent and celebrated individuals buried within its boundaries from the fields of sport, entertainment, politics,  commerce and others of a certain notoriety. These include Jem Mace, generally recognised as the 'Father of Modern Boxing' and the  first Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World. Also, James Maybrick, a Liverpool Merchant, of whom many suspect to have been the real 'Jack the Ripper' of the famous Whitechapel Murders and Hugh McElroy, Chief Purser of the ill fated ship, the Titanic.

The list of illustrious persons to have found their final resting  place within Anfield could go on and as such Liverpool's Ranger  Service regularly provide guided tours of the site to those with  an interest in our local history. Indeed, in recognition of Anfield's historic value, in February 1986 English Heritage awarded Anfield Cemetery Grade II Listed status.


Bob Halliday and Martin Doherty

Martin Doherty and Bob Halliday with other interested people have formed a Friends Group for Anfield Cemetery. He and Bob Halliday have been toying with this idea for a couple of years now. They both appreciate the history within the cemetery and crematorium. They formed a Friends Group, partly to reclaim the cemetery from vandals and other partakers in anti social behaviour, but also for the wider community to come to appreciate the history and heritage contained within both sites.

There are also plans for a Genealogy Centre at Anfield, so that more people can visit and appreciate the joys of Family History Research. Who knows, as Friends’ Group we might one day  be in a position to help this scheme along.

Copyright © Martin Doherty 2007

Read the history of the Anfield Crematorium.

 

Map of Anfield Cemetery

Last Updated December 2011
 

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