How to Find Tameside Burials and MIs:

One of the toughest questions I get asked from clients is, 'How do I Find Where my Ancestor is Buried'.

I have two other pages on this website, one for Burials and and another for Monumental Inscriptions indexed by town. This page will try to assess what is available according to organisation. ----------------------

Metropolitan Bereavement Services

Are complete for Droylsden, Mossley and Hyde Cemeteries plus most of Hurst cemetery.
Plus all more recent graves since records were computerised and older graves reopened to accommodate an new interment. It now costs £25 for a search and you are not allowed to search the books yourself.

Deceased Online

Mostly hold records for Municipal Cemeteries and locally Authorities involved area

• Trafford
• Cheshre East
• Cheshire West
• Manchester

There is an annual subscription of £89, or £2 each pay per view, or by vouchers in multiples of £5

Billion Graves

• Ashton St Peters
• Audenshaw St Stephens
• Audenshaw Cemetery 672 Graves
• Droyslden Cemetery ?
• Hyde St Thomas 208 graves

Much can be discovered for Free and is part of a full Find My Past subscription. There is a pro sub of £24.99.

Find a Grave

Many local graveyards transcribed and photos added by Kathryn Young and Rita Vaughan

• Mossley St George 58%
• Mossley Cemetery 89%
• Hurst Cemetery 27%
• Hurst St Johns 78%
• Millbrook St James 100%
• Stalybridge Old St Georges 92%
• Mottram st Michael's 61%
• Dukky Crem 11%
• Dukinfield St Johns 91%
• Newton St Mary 11%
• Hyde St Geroge 49%
• Denton St Lawrence 36%
• Audenshaw St Stephens 51%
• Ashton St Peter 38%
• Christ Church 68%
• St Michael 68%
• Fairfield 33%

Family History Society of Cheshire

Downloads mostly for around £2.00 and some for North East Cheshire

• Stockport High Street Unitarians
• Stockport St Peter
• Woodhead St James
• Chadkirk Chapel
• Compstall Methodist Church
• Hatherlow Independent chapel
• High Lane st Thomas
• Marple Bridge RC
• Marple Bridge URC
• Mottram St Michael
• Old Chapel Dukinfield
• Stalybridge Old St George

Churches Themselves

• Stalybridge St George
• Dukinfield St John

By Other Organisations and Individuals

Paper Records at Tameside Local Studies Library Reference at QL923

• St Mary Magdelen, Broadbottom
• Stalybridge Congregational
• Wakefield Road Baptists
• Mossley All Saints
• Crescent Road, Dukinfield
• Hyde St Stephens
• Hyde Chapel and on Fiche from FHSC
• Denton Christ Church
• Denton St Lawrence
• Two Trees
• St John Hurst
• Queen Street Methodists
• Methodist New Connexion

• Stamford Street Methodists my project posted in several places
• Droylsden St Mary's records are still at the church.

Stalybridge St Paul's the first Church built in Staley formed out of the huge Mottram St Michael's parish in 1839 as Stalybridge's population burgeoned during the massive expansion at the time. The combination also meant that the churchyard became overcrowded and an extension in to new ground. This became what is reputed to be the largest Church graveyard in the country. George Clark spent 20 years methodically recording the gravestones and they are indexed and bound in volumes which take up nearly a whole shelf in Tameside Local Studies Library. Unfortunately on the bottom shelf.

George has also indexed other Stalybridge Churches including Wakefield Road Baptists and St Georges. There are a couple more, but I need to get in our Local Studies Library to check.

Gay J Oliver March 2022