City of Lincoln Council

City of Lincoln Council,
Bereavement Services,
Lincoln Crematorium,
Washingborough Road,
Lincoln,
Lincolnshire,
LN4 1EF.
https://www.lincoln.gov.uk/homepage/19/crematorium-and-cemeteries

The City of Lincoln has a long and ancient history dating from the Iron Age and then settled and established as a flourishing centre by the Romans and later the Vikings. The City again flourished during Medieval times with the formation of a mint and, in the 11th century and on the orders of William the Conqueror, the construction of a short-lived cathedral building which, very unusually, was destroyed by earthquake. Reconstructed in the late 12th century, the then Lincoln Minster was a stunning building which boasted the highest tower in Europe.

In 1215, the Bishop of Lincoln was a witness to the signing of Magna Carta at Runnymede and the City still plays host to one of the original copies. William the Conqueror was also responsible for the construction of Lincoln Castle.

Lincoln has also had strong associations with major cultural and historic events of national significance from the establishment of weaving and the famous Lincoln Green cloth, through the tragic times of Jewish persecution, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the English Civil War, the Agricultural Revolution and, with the arrival of the railways, the industrial revolution in the 19th Century.

Records on Deceased Online
- Canwick Road Cemetery (both the new and old cemeteries): records from 1856 to 2014

- Eastgate Cemetery: records from 1856

- Newport Cemetery: records from 1856 to 2014

- St Margaret's Cemetery (Found in Eastgate Cemetery) : records from 1907 to 2014

- St Swithin's, Washingborough Road: records from 1890 to 2014

- Lincoln Crematorium: records from 1968 to 2014

Records comprise:
- Scans of original registers (until the 1990's, dates vary by site)
- Computerised register records (from the 1990's, dates vary by site)
- Grave details indicating all those buried within each grave
- Maps indicating the section of a cemetery where graves are located

The total number of individual burials in the locations above is approximately 70,000 with over 68,000 cremations records.