We are developing a section of the website devoted to the history of the church and its churchyards.
Did you know . . . . . . . ?
There are nearly 2500 marked graves, memorials and monuments in the two churchyards, church and crypt.
Between 1976 and 1986 the Camden History Society recorded them all. This resulted in over 3500 sides of A4 paper. These have been digitized and are now available on our website as image files (portable document format – ‘pdf’).
All the names mentioned were indexed and with recent additions now total nearly 7000.
For about 500 of this 7000 there are short biographical details.
A search on the website will bring up links to the Camden History Society records as well as a few photographs and for the later additions the inscription.
Try it . . . . . . . history.hampsteadparishchurch.org.uk
We are very grateful to Stephen Berryman for his continued help with the coding of our website and especially for making this search so neat.
If you would like to help us add to this resource with photographs or research we would be delighted. (We don’t mind if you point out errors either.)
Judy East [email protected]
Margaret Willmer [email protected]
(For anyone who is interested, this is how we made it work. We started with the numbering system devised by the Camden History Society – each grave, plot, monument and memorial has a unique number (plot number). We renamed all 3500 image files (pdfs) very carefully to match the plot number and where it is, and the file size was considerably reduced to speed up download time. The coding cleverly works out from the plot number what the filename must be and creates a link. Photographs and mini-biography files are named and linked to in the same way. For the newer burials, memorials, additions and anything else we know, the information has been entered into a table. This table can be continually updated through a data entry page. All 7000 names are stored in another table with surname, first name, date and plot number with a data entry page to add new names.)