Find a grave

Grave search

Prepare a grave search at the Old St. Matthew’s Churchyard using the name, life dates, field reference, official plan and administration contact.

On this page

This portal does not provide a general name search or accept search commissions. It helps you organise existing information before contacting the administration.

If you have a location reference

  1. Record the field, row, grave number and every suffix in full.
  2. Open the official site plan under cemetery map.
  3. Identify the field and nearest path, but do not turn the diagram into a GPS position.
  4. Use field labels and grave sequence on site.

If you know only the name

Give the cemetery administration as much of the following as possible:

  • full name and spelling variants,
  • exact or approximate birth and death dates,
  • likely burial period,
  • names of others in a family grave,
  • old letters, photographs or fee notices carrying a grave reference.

The operator publishes an extensive directory of notable people, but it is not a complete occupancy register. Our notable graves page is deliberately curated.

Understanding coordinates

Some notable graves are mapped in OpenStreetMap as individual objects. A position appears only where that exact grave has a precise record. Where this basis is absent — for example for Alfred Messel — the photograph and biography remain available without an estimated map point.