Council records deceased online

About 130,000 names are recorded going back to 1873

Budding genealogists who want to trace their ancestors who lived in and around Tunbridge Wells can now do so online thanks to the local Kent council.

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council has made its burial and cremation records available for users of the internet.

Old leather bound books with records hand written in ink from 150 years ago have been scanned and placed online.

One notable entrant is actor William Hartnell who played Dr Who from 1963 to 1966 and died in 1975.

Deceased Online holds records from the Kent and Sussex Crematorium and Tunbridge Wells Borough Cemetery from the past 135 years.

Cemetery maps

About 130,000 names are recorded going back to 1873, and the data will be continuously updated.

Visitors to the website can search records free of charge to see whether any exist for the required name.

If they do, users can then purchase credits and search more detailed data, with the revenue generated being shared between Deceased Online and the borough council.

Other information and items available include scans of original register pages, maps of cemeteries and gardens of remembrance to locate graves and memorials, photographs of headstones, and details of all internments in a grave.

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Users can find out about burial and cremation records