Death - Historical Searches

There is an upward trend for people trying to trace their ancestors and many of their investigations can take place with Bereavement Services.

All cremations and burials are recorded on computer and retained forever. We have over 68,500 cremations, 118,000 burials and over 70,000 graves on record.

Bereavement Services can find information on the deceased so long as we have the full name of the deceased and the actual date of death (there is no charge for this search). If the actual date of death is not known then we would require an approximate period i.e. 1890's, 1930's etc.  For this search a minimum charge of £10-00 is required.

Information we can issue is as follows:

• Place of death
• Home address at the time of death
• Age at death
• Date of burial or cremation
• For burial the grave number if it was a purchased or un-purchased grave, if purchased then details of whoever else is buried there
• For a cremation what happened to the cremated remains i.e. removed, buried in a grave, buried in the gardens of remembrance or strewn in the woods

Contact Bereavement Services

Tel: 01228 625310

Online form: Online Search Request

E-mail: bereavement@carlisle.gov.uk

Visit: Richardson Street, Carlisle, CA2 6AL