{"id":200,"date":"2011-12-09T11:07:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T11:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=200"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:17:20","slug":"burials","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=200","title":{"rendered":"Burial Records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The FIND A GRAVE Website<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The Find A Grave website has a searchable section for the South View Cemetery. Each entry has a photo of the memorial, if available, and a location pin in the cemetery for that grave.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>You can find out more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cemetery\/2219877\/south-view-cemetery\">HERE<\/a>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cemetery\/2219877\/south-view-cemetery\">https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cemetery\/2219877\/south-view-cemetery<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<h2><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">REGISTER OF BURIALS<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr Michael Rice, supported by volunteers from the Basingstoke Historical Association and the South View Conservation Group has manually transcribed the available official handwritten burial records from the official Register of Burials for the Holy Ghost Cemetery from 1858 to date onto searchable spreadsheets.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please note that the original Burial Register\u00a0documents are hand written, can be difficult to read and transcription errors can occur despite out best efforts and the great care we take.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We have therefore included the PDFs of these original handwritten Burial Registers below.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">THE HOLY GHOST CEMETERY BURIAL RECORDS CAN NOW BE VIEWED ONLINE <\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>There are FOUR Spreadsheets arranged according to the date when the burial was registered.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">HOW TO FIND A PARTICULAR\u00a0 SURNAME IN THE BURIAL RECORDS<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Selected KEY information from the Original Hand Written Registers of Burials has been transcribed into Spreadsheets and then sorted according to the Surname of the Deceased.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please note that these spreadsheets do not include all of the recorded details for each burial which may be obtained from the Full Burial Records.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>There are FOUR PDF Copies of Burial Records Sorted by Surname and within the time frame established in the Burial Register. <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To expand the data and make it easier to read- click on the + circle<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To search the data, click on FILE and then use the Drop Down menu OR Type the Keyword you are looking for in the box at the upper right of the PDF next to the Magnifying Glass symbol.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To download or print a PDF, click on the FILE and then use the Drop Down menu.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can view and search our online burial records listed<\/span> below<\/h3>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1stRegister-03-Jul-1858-to-20-Mar-1876-PDF-by-Surname00.pdf\">1st Register &#8211; 03 Jul 1858 to 20 Mar 1876 &#8211; PDF by Surname<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2nd-Register-21-Mar-1876-to-14-Jan-1892-PDF-by-surname00.pdf\">2nd Register &#8211; 21 Mar 1876 to 14 Jan 1892 &#8211; PDF by surname<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/3rd-Register-15-Jan-1892-to-14-May-1909-PDF-by-surname00.pdf\">3rd Register &#8211; 15 Jan 1892 to 14 May 1909 &#8211; PDF by surname<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/4th-Register-15-May-1909-to-present-PDF-by-Surname00.pdf\">4th Register &#8211; 15 May 1909 to present &#8211; PDF by Surname<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>To search the data you must:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"tabs-wrapper\"><ul class=\"tabs\"><li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"defaulttab\" rel=\"tab1942\"><span>Copy<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" rel=\"tab1417\"><span>Find and Replace<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" rel=\"tab1093\"><span>Search<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"tab-content\" id=\"tab1942\"><div class=\"tabs-inner-padding\">Make a copy of the document to leave the original intact<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/makeacopy.jpg\" rel=\"wp-prettyPhoto&#091;200&#093;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-530\" title=\"makeacopy\" src=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/makeacopy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/makeacopy.jpg 800w, http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/makeacopy-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tab-content\" id=\"tab1417\"><div class=\"tabs-inner-padding\">Select Find and Replace from the Edit menu<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/findandreplace.jpg\" rel=\"wp-prettyPhoto&#091;200&#093;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-531\" title=\"findandreplace\" src=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/findandreplace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/findandreplace.jpg 800w, http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/findandreplace-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tab-content\" id=\"tab1093\"><div class=\"tabs-inner-padding\">Input your search term (leave the replace option blank<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/search.jpg\" rel=\"wp-prettyPhoto&#091;200&#093;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-532\" title=\"search\" src=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/search.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/search.jpg 800w, http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/search-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- tabs-wrapper end --><div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">HOW TO FIND THE LOCATION OF A PARTICULAR BURIAL PLOT<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333300;\">The Cemetery as devised in 1858 was segregated into specific areas and each area was allocated a code letter \u2013 A, B, C, D, E,\u00a0 F, G, H, I, K, L and M.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Each burial was then assigned a grave number within that specific area. For example, the first burial recorded in the Register of Burials on the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> July 1858 was for Mrs Sarah Dyer, 78, Widow of Robert\u00a0 Dyer, a Wheelwright, of Sarum Place, Basingstoke. Mrs Dyer was interred in Area C, Grave 124.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333300;\">The Database of Burials, therefore, references the Burial Location by a letter and a number.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333300;\">During the intervening years, many of the monuments may have been removed or damaged and are no longer visible, but the burial records remain accessible.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Please note that there are almost 10,000 recorded burials on the database so you may need to be patient while the pages load.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_754\" style=\"width: 1018px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/victorian-cemetery-plan1.jpg\" rel=\"wp-prettyPhoto[200]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-754\" class=\"size-full wp-image-754\" src=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/victorian-cemetery-plan1.jpg\" alt=\"Victorian Cemetery Plan\" width=\"1008\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/victorian-cemetery-plan1.jpg 1008w, http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/victorian-cemetery-plan1-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victorian Cemetery Plan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>__________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW TO VIEW PDF COPIES OF THE ORIGINAL HAND WRITTEN BURIAL REGISTERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PDF Images of the Original Hand Written Registers of Burials are available online. There are 16 PDFs covering the period 1858 to current.<\/p>\n<p>REGISTER OF BURIALS <div class=\"one_fourth\">\n<p><a title=\"Register of Burials 1858\u20131864\" href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=944\">1858\u20131864<\/a> <a title=\"Register of Burials 1864\u20131870\" href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1864\u20131870<\/a> <a title=\"Register of Burials 1870\u20131876\" href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=948\">1870\u20131876<\/a> <a title=\"Register of Burials 1876\u20131880\" href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1876\u20131880<\/a><\/div> <div class=\"one_fourth\">\n<p><a title=\"Register of Burials 1880\u20131884\" href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=952\">1880\u20131884<\/a> <a title=\"Register of Burials 1884\u20131887\" href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1884\u20131887<\/a> <a title=\"Register of Burials 1887\u20131892\" href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=956\">1887\u20131892<\/a> <a title=\"Register of Burials 1892\u20131896\" href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1892\u20131896<\/a><\/div> <div class=\"one_fourth\">\n<p><a title=\"Register of Burials 1896\u20131900\" href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=960\">1896\u20131900<\/a> <a title=\"Register of Burials 1900\u20131903\" href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=962\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1900\u20131903<\/a> <a title=\"Register of Burials 1903\u20131907\" href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=964\">1903\u20131907<\/a> <a title=\"Register of Burials 1907\u20131909\" href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1907\u20131909<\/a><\/div> <div class=\"one_fourth last_column\">\n<p><a title=\"Register of Burials 1909\u20131913\" href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=968\">1909\u20131913<\/a> <a title=\"Register of Burials 1913\u20131917\" href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=970\">1913\u20131917<\/a> <a title=\"Register of Burials 1917\u20131924\" href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=972\">1917\u20131924<\/a> <a title=\"Register of Burials 1924\u20132008\" href=\"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/?page_id=974\">1924\u20132008<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIND A GRAVE Website The Find A Grave website has a searchable section for the South View Cemetery. Each entry has a photo of the memorial, if available, and a location pin in the cemetery for that grave. You can find out more HERE> https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cemetery\/2219877\/south-view-cemetery REGISTER [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-FullWidth.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-200","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5IAy2-3e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":95,"href":"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyghostcemetery-basingstoke.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}