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The full Burial and Grave Registers
are on microfiche and are kept at various locations, as follows:
Central Library, Municipal
Buildings, Calverley Street, Leeds LS1 3AB (Local History Room, Reference
Department) (tel. 0113 247 8290)
Leeds District Archives, Chapeltown Road, Sheepscar, Leeds LS7 3AP
(tel. 0113 214 5814)
Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Claremont, 23 Clarendon Road, Leeds
LS9 2NZ (tel. 0113 245 7910)
All the institutions which have
the microfiche Registers also have the full Index to Burials 1845-1992,
compiled by the Friends of Beckett Street Cemetery. The Central Library has
a map of the cemetery.
The information found in the Burial
Registers consists of: chronological burial number, name, address, description
(i.e., usually, occupation if a man, relationship if a woman or child), date
of burial, age, grave number and name of clergyman performing the service.
The Grave Registers list the graves in numerical order, with the burial
number and name of those interred in each, so that, by cross-referencing,
full details of every person buried in any grave can be identified. This can
be very useful in the case of private graves.
Memorial inscriptions have
been recorded by the Friends of Beckett Street Cemetery and can be seen at
the Central Library.
Enquiries about burials
at Beckett Street Cemetery from people who cannot visit Leeds can be sent
to the Chief Superintendent of Cemeteries & Crematoria, Lawnswood Cemetery,
Otley Road, Leeds LS16 6AH (tel. 0113 267 4623 or 267 3188). There is a charge
of about £25 for answering postal enquiries; a similar fee is charged by Leeds
City Library Services. Friends of Beckett Street Cemetery will also deal with
enquiries; there is a minimum charge of £5. Write to FoBSC Information Service,
76 Oakland Avenue, Heworth, York YO31 1DF, for an estimate of costs. Please
remember to enclose an SAE or 2 IRCs, or you will not receive a reply!
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