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41554 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0dfac-0677-7084-b48c-20d9d4e65de8", "title": "Secret Portuguese Jews, floating coffins, Edgar Allan Poe, a Victorian masterpiece and a pair of Australopithecines - Old St Mary's Churchyard,Stoke Newington", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2016/03/secret-portuguesejews-floating-coffins.html", "published_at": "2016-03-08T23:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0677-7084-b48c-20d9d5bc9cd0", "title": "Presenting the Flemish Hercules; Peter Ducrow (1765-1815), St Mary-at-Lambeth", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2016/03/presenting-flemish-hercules-peter.html", "published_at": "2016-03-04T23:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0677-7084-b48c-20d9d5d6818d", "title": "Extract of Sunbeam and Beetle Wing, the Medical Miracles of Lionel Lockyer (1599?-1672), Southwark Cathedral", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2016/02/extract-of-sunbeam-and-beetle-wings.html", "published_at": "2016-02-27T23:46:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0677-7084-b48c-20d9d64f7c49", "title": "Felo de se Part 2, suicide by arsenic: William George Williams (1829-1866), West Norwood Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2016/02/suicide-by-arsenic-william-george.html", "published_at": "2016-02-24T23:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a67f19ad7", "title": "You in tyme shalbe even duste as we are now; Percival and Agnes Smalpace (died 1568/1588), St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2016/02/you-in-tyme-shalbe-even-duste-as-we-are.html", "published_at": "2016-02-17T22:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a68da46fd", "title": "Un Suicide à la Guillotine - Frenchman kills himself in New Cross 1876", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2016/02/un-suicide-la-guillotine-frenchman.html", "published_at": "2016-02-10T23:44:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a6967bae8", "title": "Felo-de-se Part One: the man who guillotined himself, William Vellens (1814-1866) City of London Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2016/02/william-vellens-man-who-guillotined.html", "published_at": "2016-02-06T00:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a698840eb", "title": "Goodbye Sinjura Vassallo, Hello Signora Sangiorgi", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2016/01/goodbye-sinjura-vassallo-hello-signora.html", "published_at": "2016-01-31T18:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a69ba773e", "title": "The Tyburn Tree (Dark London) - John Harle & Marc Almond (Sospiro Noir)", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-tyburn-tree-dark-london-john-harle.html", "published_at": "2016-01-27T23:59:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a6ab09837", "title": "Jolly Jumbo, the King's Heaviest Subject; William Thomas Ecclestone (1862-1915) Manor Park Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2016/01/jolly-jumbo-kings-heaviest-subject.html", "published_at": "2016-01-19T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a6b17ff74", "title": "H.M.S. Worcester and the Lord High Admiral’s Testicles; the gallant life of Captain John Henderson Smith (1826-1904), Highgate Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2016/01/hms-worcester-and-lord-high-admirals.html", "published_at": "2016-01-10T15:33:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a6b5ee1ef", "title": "The Undertaker at Work 1900-1950 - Brian Parsons (Strange Attractor Press £15.99)", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-undertaker-at-work-1900-1950-brian.html", "published_at": "2016-01-07T00:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a6bb8d1f7", "title": "Merry Christmas from the London Dead", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/12/merry-christmas-from-london-dead.html", "published_at": "2015-12-21T21:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a6c6794cc", "title": "To Her; Emma Jones (1813-1842), Kensal Green Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/12/to-her-emma-jones-kensal-green.html", "published_at": "2015-12-13T19:26:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a6c989bbd", "title": "The life of a Day, the death of a tree and all the fun of the fair; Daniel Day (1683-1767), St Margaret's Churchyard, Barking", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-life-of-day-death-of-tree-and-all.html", "published_at": "2015-12-03T23:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a6d4f9e67", "title": "Death in the Pillory; John Waller, Seven Dials, 1732", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/11/death-in-pillory-john-waller-seven.html", "published_at": "2015-11-22T19:17:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a6e44b5bf", "title": "The Greek Necropolis, West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-greek-necropolis-west-norwood.html", "published_at": "2015-11-16T18:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a6e57c9f8", "title": "She had eyes and chose me; Lucy Renaud Gallup (1847-1883), West Norwood Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/11/she-had-eyes-and-chose-me-lucy-renaud.html", "published_at": "2015-11-14T00:22:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a6ead924d", "title": "Cock Lane Humbug; the Ballad of Scratching Fanny - Mrs Frances Kent (1735-1760), St John's crypt, Clerkenwell", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/11/cock-lane-humbug-ballad-of-scratching.html", "published_at": "2015-11-06T23:26:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a6f59baae", "title": "The Edmonton Brick Maker and the Coiners of Haringey; George Blackwell (1859-1911), Tottenham Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-edmonton-brick-maker-and-coiners-of.html", "published_at": "2015-11-02T20:29:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a7053ff01", "title": "Skulduggery in the fur trade; John Moritz Oppenheim (1801-1864) & Frederick Schroeter (1809-1876), Nunhead Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/10/skulduggery-in-fur-trade-john-moritz.html", "published_at": "2015-10-24T00:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a712f2a80", "title": "\"DEAD - A Celebration of Mortality\" Charles Saatchi", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/10/dead-celebration-of-mortality-charles.html", "published_at": "2015-10-16T23:32:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a718d28c8", "title": "The Sealy Memorial, St Mary-at-Lambeth churchyard", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-sealy-memorial-st-mary-at-lambeth.html", "published_at": "2015-10-09T22:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a71a440b5", "title": "The affair of the diamond necklace: Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, Comtesse de la Motte (1756-1791), St Mary-at-Lambeth", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-affair-of-diamond-necklace-jeanne.html", "published_at": "2015-10-07T23:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfac-0678-736b-be02-c32a7232bd60", "title": "His Coffin was a Living Shark! - how Ephraim Thompson's son and Henry Watson's watch ended up in the belly of a fish", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/09/his-coffin-was-living-shark-how-ephraim.html", "published_at": "2015-09-16T16:59:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faeb21c523", "title": "If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all; Sir John Soane (1753-1837) Old St Pancras churchyard", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2013/10/sir-john-soane-mausoleum-old-st-pancras.html", "published_at": "2015-09-14T10:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faeb891250", "title": "The Israelite in whom there was no guile and the boys he saved from the Nazis; Paul Philip Levertoff (1878-1954), Barkingside Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-israelite-in-whom-there-was-no.html", "published_at": "2015-09-04T16:44:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faec27f799", "title": "Cromwell & the location of the clitoris; Anna Cromwell (1659-1727) & Thomas Gibson (1648–1722), St Georges' Burial Ground, Bloomsbury", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/07/cromwell-location-of-clitoris-anna.html", "published_at": "2015-07-21T22:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faeca6c1a6", "title": "When Barking was a fishing port; the Hewett family, St Margaret's Churchyard and Rippleside Cemetery, Barking", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/07/when-barking-was-fishing-port-hewett.html", "published_at": "2015-07-15T22:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faed17c979", "title": "Baldassare Viscardini (1830-1896), Freedom Fighter and Cabinet Maker, New Southgate Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/07/baldassare-viscardini-1830-1896-freedom.html", "published_at": "2015-07-08T12:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faed55a9f0", "title": "Life masks of the surrealists; Paul (1891-1973) & Hilde Hamann (1898-1987), New Southgate Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/07/life-masks-of-surrealists-paul-1891.html", "published_at": "2015-07-06T17:05:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faed62939d", "title": "“The case is altered,” quoth Plowden; Edmund Plowden (1518-1585), Temple Church, EC4", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-case-is-altered-quoth-plowden.html", "published_at": "2015-07-03T23:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faedd2556a", "title": "My Lord Archbishop a wencher? Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), Minster of St John the Baptist, Croydon", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/06/my-lord-archbishop-wencher-gilbert.html", "published_at": "2015-06-30T22:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faee74acf1", "title": "Dr Lutherburgo Humbugo, healer of housebreakers - Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (1740-1812), St Nicholas Churchyard, Chiswick", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/06/dr-lutherburgo-humbugo-healer-of.html", "published_at": "2015-06-26T16:48:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faeefb844e", "title": "The man who launched the Great Railway Bazaar - James Joseph Berkley (1819-1862), Camberwell Old Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-man-who-lauched-great-railway.html", "published_at": "2015-05-22T23:14:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faef300475", "title": "Thief snatches Freud's ashes - Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Golders Green Crematorium", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/05/thief-snatches-freuds-ashes-sigmund.html", "published_at": "2015-05-04T21:32:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faef6d7cc2", "title": "Bexleyheath Cemetery, London Borough of Bexley", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/04/bexleyheath-cemetery-london-borough-of.html", "published_at": "2015-04-28T22:55:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faf00d087f", "title": "\"What a lark we had...!\"; Dudley Wilmot Carleton, 4th Lord Dorchester (1822-1897), Kensal Green Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/04/what-lark-we-had-dudley-wilmot-carleton.html", "published_at": "2015-04-25T23:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faf0e2a7f7", "title": "The power of the footnote: the cannibal legend of Johann Zoffany (1733-1810) St Anne's, Kew", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-power-of-footnote-cannibal-legend.html", "published_at": "2015-04-19T15:50:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faf1203987", "title": "The East London Cemetery, Plaistow", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-east-london-cemetery-plaistow.html", "published_at": "2015-04-08T22:29:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faf2101048", "title": "Peace to his ashes! Sir William Rawlins (1753-1838) St Botolph's Churchyard, Bishopsgate", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/04/peace-to-his-ashes-sir-william-rawlins.html", "published_at": "2015-04-02T20:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faf26cc565", "title": "\"A clever but very eccentric person...\"; Joseph Constantine Carpue (1764 - 1846), St Nicholas Churchyard, Chiswick", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-clever-but-very-eccentric-person_21.html", "published_at": "2015-03-22T00:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faf2922471", "title": "Always funny, but without being vulgar - Charles Herbert 'Clifton' Barritt (1869-1929), Hampstead Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/02/always-funny-but-without-being-vulgar.html", "published_at": "2015-02-25T22:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faf2f263eb", "title": "St Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Leytonstone", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/02/st-patricks-roman-catholic-cemetery.html", "published_at": "2015-02-11T00:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faf3a9ff4e", "title": "Tapped 66 times of 240 gallons of water - Dame Mary Page (1672-1728), Bunhill Fields", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/02/tapped-60-times-of-240-gallons-of-water.html", "published_at": "2015-02-07T00:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faf403fb4a", "title": "A Living Colossus; the Surprising Irish Giant - Charles Byrne (1761-1783), the Hunterian Museum, London", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-irish-giant-charles-byrne-1761-1783.html", "published_at": "2015-01-31T17:48:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faf5036504", "title": "Exquisite corpse – Marchesa Luisa Casati (1881-1957), Brompton Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/01/exquisite-corpse-marchesa-luisa-casati.html", "published_at": "2015-01-20T20:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faf5ca1dcd", "title": "Barbe Maria Theresa Sangiorgi (1834-1893), Brompton Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2015/01/barbe-maria-theresa-sangiorgi-1834-1893.html", "published_at": "2015-01-02T16:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faf5d96eb8", "title": "\"The Lately Discovered Depredations at Lambeth Burial Ground\" - grave robbing south of the river 1794.", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-lately-discovered-depredations-at.html", "published_at": "2014-12-23T15:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb1-ee40-7119-9f8e-b8faf66edf61", "title": "No rest for the wicked; Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) original interment Westminster Abbey, head now buried Sidney Sussex College Chapel, location of body unknown", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/12/no-rest-for-wicked-oliver-cromwell-1599.html", "published_at": "2014-12-10T15:29:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128a98d551b9", "title": "Sharkbait - snatched from the Jaws of Death, Sir Brook Watson (1735-1807), St Mary the Virgin, Mortlake", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/11/sharkbait-snatched-from-jaws-of-death.html", "published_at": "2014-11-27T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128a99d07567", "title": "The poet, the muse and the abortionist; Ernest Dowson (1867-1900), Ladywell and Brockley Cemetery & Adelaide Foltinowicz (1878-1904)", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-poet-muse-and-abortionist-ernest.html", "published_at": "2014-11-21T14:22:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128a9a9ec36d", "title": "The pills that cured all ills; James Morison the Hygeist (1770-1840), Kensal Green Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-pills-that-cure-all-ills-james.html", "published_at": "2014-11-05T12:36:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128a9afed5fd", "title": "Martha Gall-Bianchi (1897-1936), Hampstead Cemetery and Cesare Bianchi (1898-1945), City of London Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/10/martha-gall-bianchi-1897-1936-hampstead.html", "published_at": "2014-10-30T17:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128a9b4eeee6", "title": "Spending eternity alone - Colonel Alexander Gordon (1840-1910), Putney Vale Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/10/spending-eternity-alone-colonel.html", "published_at": "2014-10-17T22:31:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128a9bb83859", "title": "Tommy Lawrence (1983-2011), East London Cemetery, Plaistow", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/10/tommy-lawrence-1983-2011-east-london.html", "published_at": "2014-10-14T13:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128a9ca479da", "title": "Marriage is just a piece of paper - George William Lancaster and Louisa Mary Wilkinson (East Sheen Cemetery)", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/10/marriage-is-just-piece-of-paper-george.html", "published_at": "2014-10-06T17:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128a9d625fda", "title": "Dying for a dog - William French (1846-1896), St Pancras & Islington Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/09/dying-for-dog-william-french-1846-1896.html", "published_at": "2014-09-25T19:25:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128a9e07cfce", "title": "Caravaggio and the IRA; Percival Lea-Wilson (1894-1920), Putney Vale Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/09/caravaggio-and-ira-percival-lea-wilson.html", "published_at": "2014-09-22T16:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128a9e30d846", "title": "Catherine Deneuve's Bellville Rendezvous; Hercules Bellville (1939-2003), Highgate East Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/09/catherine-deneuves-bellville-rendezvous.html", "published_at": "2014-09-16T14:45:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128a9e371a18", "title": "Mysterious Fire in Kensal Green Cemetery - 18 August 1865", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/09/mysterious-fire-in-kensal-green.html", "published_at": "2014-09-09T16:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128a9e531b3d", "title": "The Gold Scab; Frederick Richards Leyland (1831-1892), Brompton Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-gold-scab-frederick-richards.html", "published_at": "2014-09-08T13:54:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128a9edcfac9", "title": "Father Nigel Bourne (1906 -1990) Catholic Priest and father of four; Chiswick New Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/07/father-nigel-bourne-1906-1990-catholic.html", "published_at": "2014-07-31T22:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128a9f9d4f3f", "title": "It is never too late to become a hero (or heroine); Betsi Cadwaladyr (Elizabeth Davies) 1789 - 1860, Abney Park Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/07/it-is-never-too-late-to-become-hero-or.html", "published_at": "2014-07-24T16:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128a9fafb898", "title": "\"Suicide of a Japanese Prince\"; Nagayori Asano (1865-1886), Brompton Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/07/suicide-of-japanese-prince-nagayori.html", "published_at": "2014-07-16T12:22:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128aa01f5174", "title": "The price of fame; Joyce and Ronald McQueen, Manor Park Cemetery and Crematorium", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-price-of-fame-joyce-and-ronald.html", "published_at": "2014-07-11T16:51:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128aa1084ea5", "title": "The posthumous life of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-posthumous-life-of-karl-marx.html", "published_at": "2014-07-07T16:39:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c561-72fe-bbe5-128aa139b896", "title": "Polly Peachum and the Black Hole of Calcutta; Mrs Isabella Vincent-Mills and Captain John Mills, St Pancras Old Churchyard", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/06/polly-peachum-and-black-hole-of.html", "published_at": "2014-06-19T12:39:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c562-7172-a066-38303a4ea42c", "title": "The Ratcliffe Highway Murders (3); John Williams (1784-1811) buried at the crossroads at the junction of Cable Street and Cannon Street Road", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-ratcliffe-highway-murders-3-john.html", "published_at": "2014-06-13T13:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c562-7172-a066-38303b02833d", "title": "The Ratcliffe Highway Murders (2): John and Catherine Willimson and Bridget Harrington (December 1811) St Paul's Churchyard, Shadwell", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-ratcliffe-highway-murders-2-john.html", "published_at": "2014-06-12T16:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c562-7172-a066-38303b2e692a", "title": "The Ratcliffe Highway Murders (1); The Marr family, St George in the east churchyard, James Gowen, the Baptist Burial Ground, Goodman Fields", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-ratcliffe-highway-murders-1-marr.html", "published_at": "2014-06-11T15:34:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c562-7172-a066-38303b80d23e", "title": "\"The £8 million Grave\"; William Blake's lost drawings", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-8-million-grave-william-blakes-lost.html", "published_at": "2014-06-05T23:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c562-7172-a066-38303c044d49", "title": "St Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/05/st-marys-roman-catholic-cemetery-kensal.html", "published_at": "2014-05-19T20:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c562-7172-a066-38303c1143ed", "title": "Thomas Joseph & Esther Tate, St Marylebone Cemetery (East Finchley)", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/05/thomas-joseph-esther-tate-st-marylebone.html", "published_at": "2014-05-13T15:25:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfb7-c562-7172-a066-38303cd738ca", "title": "John Crook (1827-1902) and Grace Sophie Crook (1830-1914), Kensal Green Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/05/john-crook-1827-1902-and-grace-sophie.html", "published_at": "2014-05-06T15:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff18517e80", "title": "General György Kmety, 1813-1865, Kensal Green Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/04/general-gyorgy-kmety-1813-1865-kensal.html", "published_at": "2014-04-01T15:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff193dcbda", "title": "Henry Taylor, Pallbearer, killed by a coffin 1872, Kensal Green Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/03/henry-taylor-pallbearer-killed-by.html", "published_at": "2014-03-31T11:45:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff19ef7fde", "title": "Jonathan Tyers, 1702-1767, St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/03/jonathan-tyers-1702-1767-st-mary.html", "published_at": "2014-03-26T13:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff1a380bfb", "title": "Reginald Alfred Alabaster, 1922-1944, Barkingside Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/03/reginald-alfred-alabaster-1922-1944.html", "published_at": "2014-03-14T23:19:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff1b33818e", "title": "Mae Amos, 1910-1937, Ilford Cemetery, Buckingham Road", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/03/mae-amos-1910-1937-ilford-cemetery.html", "published_at": "2014-03-13T14:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff1b83f228", "title": "Richard Honey & George Francis, slain 14th August 1821, St Paul's Churchyard, Hammersmith", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/03/richard-honey-george-francis-slain-14th.html", "published_at": "2014-03-12T16:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff1c1e2494", "title": "Joseph Denison, c1726-1806, Bunhill Fields", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/03/joseph-denison-c1726-1806-bunhill-fields.html", "published_at": "2014-03-10T15:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff1cf25e09", "title": "William (1757-1827) and Catherine (1762-1831) Blake, Bunhill Fields", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/03/william-1757-1827-and-catherine-1762.html", "published_at": "2014-03-02T15:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff1d597f7e", "title": "Laurence Sterne, 1713 – 1768, St George’s Field Burial Ground", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/02/laurence-stern-1713-1768-st-georges.html", "published_at": "2014-02-27T17:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff1e0cf37b", "title": "Joshua Compston, 1970-1996, Kensal Green", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/02/joshua-compston-1970-1996-kensal-green.html", "published_at": "2014-02-20T21:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff1e85a3db", "title": "Kensal Green Cemetery; after the rain.", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/01/kensal-green-cemetery-after-rain.html", "published_at": "2014-01-24T23:44:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff1f5be7fb", "title": "Maria Van Butchell (died 1775, Hunterian Museum) & Martin Van Butchell (1735-1814) St George's Field Burial Ground, Bayswater", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/01/maria-van-butchell-died-1775-hunterian.html", "published_at": "2014-01-21T16:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff1f90eb4d", "title": "Miss Johnson, the Hunterian Museum (1775-1941) & John Sheldon (1752-1808) Combe Raleigh Churchyard", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/01/miss-johnson-hunterian-museum-1775-1941.html", "published_at": "2014-01-16T20:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff1fc0d94c", "title": "The Burnside Memorial, Brompton Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-burnside-memorial-brompton-cemetery.html", "published_at": "2014-01-10T15:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff1fc36b86", "title": "George Solon Ladd, Kensal Green", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/01/george-solon-ladd-kensal-green.html", "published_at": "2014-01-03T14:34:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff200cbe0d", "title": "Herbert William Allingham, Kensal Green", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2013/12/herbert-william-allingham-kensal-green.html", "published_at": "2013-12-20T14:34:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff201b62da", "title": "Kensal Green Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2013/12/kensal-green-cemetery-kensington-gas.html", "published_at": "2013-12-18T23:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff20bcdcd7", "title": "Ardath de Sales Stean, Hampstead Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2013/12/ardath-de-sales-stean-hampstead-cemetery.html", "published_at": "2013-12-17T14:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff21b01898", "title": "Caroline Crachami, the Sicilian Fairy, Hunterian Museum", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2013/12/caroline-crachami-sicilian-fairy.html", "published_at": "2013-12-04T23:21:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff226a9094", "title": "The Waddington Quintuplets, Hunterian Museum", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-waddington-quintuplets-hunterian.html", "published_at": "2013-12-04T23:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff22c9e059", "title": "Alexander Joseph Dourof, 'last of the sword swallowers', Camberwell Old Cemetery", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2013/11/alexander-joseph-dourof-last-of-sword.html", "published_at": "2013-11-29T14:34:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff22f1883b", "title": "Rowland & Mary Eliza Stephenson, All Hallows, Tottenham", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2013/11/rowland-mary-eliza-stephenson-all.html", "published_at": "2013-11-20T23:45:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff234e71b7", "title": "Agnes Forsyth, 4 years old, Abney Park", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2013/11/agnes-forsyth-4-years-old-abney-park.html", "published_at": "2013-11-12T23:36:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff23d795d9", "title": "Philipson Mausoleum, Golders Green Crematorium", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2013/11/philipson-mausoleum-golders-green_7.html", "published_at": "2013-11-07T21:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfbe-23a0-70d7-ba7a-5fff23f78db9", "title": "PC 403 William Frederick Tyler, Abney Park", "url": "https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2013/10/pc-403-william-frederick-tyler-abney.html", "published_at": "2013-10-25T22:59:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2016

Secret Portuguese Jews, floating coffins, Edgar Allan Poe, a Victorian masterpiece and a pair of Australopithecines - Old St Mary's Churchyard,Stoke Newingtonoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2016
Presenting the Flemish Hercules; Peter Ducrow (1765-1815), St Mary-at-Lambethoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2016
Extract of Sunbeam and Beetle Wing, the Medical Miracles of Lionel Lockyer (1599?-1672), Southwark Cathedraloriginal ↗
27 Feb 2016
Felo de se Part 2, suicide by arsenic: William George Williams (1829-1866), West Norwood Cemeteryoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2016
You in tyme shalbe even duste as we are now; Percival and Agnes Smalpace (died 1568/1588), St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfieldoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2016
Un Suicide à la Guillotine - Frenchman kills himself in New Cross 1876original ↗
10 Feb 2016
Felo-de-se Part One: the man who guillotined himself, William Vellens (1814-1866) City of London Cemeteryoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2016
Goodbye Sinjura Vassallo, Hello Signora Sangiorgioriginal ↗
31 Jan 2016
The Tyburn Tree (Dark London) - John Harle & Marc Almond (Sospiro Noir)original ↗
27 Jan 2016
Jolly Jumbo, the King's Heaviest Subject; William Thomas Ecclestone (1862-1915) Manor Park Cemeteryoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2016
H.M.S. Worcester and the Lord High Admiral’s Testicles; the gallant life of Captain John Henderson Smith (1826-1904), Highgate Cemeteryoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2016
The Undertaker at Work 1900-1950 - Brian Parsons (Strange Attractor Press £15.99)original ↗
7 Jan 2016

2015

Merry Christmas from the London Deadoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2015
To Her; Emma Jones (1813-1842), Kensal Green Cemeteryoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2015
The life of a Day, the death of a tree and all the fun of the fair; Daniel Day (1683-1767), St Margaret's Churchyard, Barkingoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2015
Death in the Pillory; John Waller, Seven Dials, 1732original ↗
22 Nov 2015
The Greek Necropolis, West Norwood Cemetery and Crematoriumoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2015
She had eyes and chose me; Lucy Renaud Gallup (1847-1883), West Norwood Cemeteryoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2015
Cock Lane Humbug; the Ballad of Scratching Fanny - Mrs Frances Kent (1735-1760), St John's crypt, Clerkenwelloriginal ↗
6 Nov 2015
The Edmonton Brick Maker and the Coiners of Haringey; George Blackwell (1859-1911), Tottenham Cemeteryoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2015
Skulduggery in the fur trade; John Moritz Oppenheim (1801-1864) & Frederick Schroeter (1809-1876), Nunhead Cemeteryoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2015
"DEAD - A Celebration of Mortality" Charles Saatchioriginal ↗
16 Oct 2015
The Sealy Memorial, St Mary-at-Lambeth churchyardoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2015
The affair of the diamond necklace: Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, Comtesse de la Motte (1756-1791), St Mary-at-Lambethoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2015
His Coffin was a Living Shark! - how Ephraim Thompson's son and Henry Watson's watch ended up in the belly of a fishoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2015
If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all; Sir John Soane (1753-1837) Old St Pancras churchyardoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2015
The Israelite in whom there was no guile and the boys he saved from the Nazis; Paul Philip Levertoff (1878-1954), Barkingside Cemeteryoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2015
Cromwell & the location of the clitoris; Anna Cromwell (1659-1727) & Thomas Gibson (1648–1722), St Georges' Burial Ground, Bloomsburyoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2015
When Barking was a fishing port; the Hewett family, St Margaret's Churchyard and Rippleside Cemetery, Barkingoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2015
Baldassare Viscardini (1830-1896), Freedom Fighter and Cabinet Maker, New Southgate Cemeteryoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2015
Life masks of the surrealists; Paul (1891-1973) & Hilde Hamann (1898-1987), New Southgate Cemeteryoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2015
“The case is altered,” quoth Plowden; Edmund Plowden (1518-1585), Temple Church, EC4original ↗
3 Jul 2015
My Lord Archbishop a wencher? Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), Minster of St John the Baptist, Croydonoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2015
Dr Lutherburgo Humbugo, healer of housebreakers - Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (1740-1812), St Nicholas Churchyard, Chiswickoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2015
The man who launched the Great Railway Bazaar - James Joseph Berkley (1819-1862), Camberwell Old Cemeteryoriginal ↗
22 May 2015
Thief snatches Freud's ashes - Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Golders Green Crematoriumoriginal ↗
4 May 2015
Bexleyheath Cemetery, London Borough of Bexleyoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2015
"What a lark we had...!"; Dudley Wilmot Carleton, 4th Lord Dorchester (1822-1897), Kensal Green Cemeteryoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2015
The power of the footnote: the cannibal legend of Johann Zoffany (1733-1810) St Anne's, Keworiginal ↗
19 Apr 2015
The East London Cemetery, Plaistoworiginal ↗
8 Apr 2015
Peace to his ashes! Sir William Rawlins (1753-1838) St Botolph's Churchyard, Bishopsgateoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2015
"A clever but very eccentric person..."; Joseph Constantine Carpue (1764 - 1846), St Nicholas Churchyard, Chiswickoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2015
Always funny, but without being vulgar - Charles Herbert 'Clifton' Barritt (1869-1929), Hampstead Cemeteryoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2015
St Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Leytonstoneoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2015
Tapped 66 times of 240 gallons of water - Dame Mary Page (1672-1728), Bunhill Fieldsoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2015
A Living Colossus; the Surprising Irish Giant - Charles Byrne (1761-1783), the Hunterian Museum, Londonoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2015
Exquisite corpse – Marchesa Luisa Casati (1881-1957), Brompton Cemeteryoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2015
Barbe Maria Theresa Sangiorgi (1834-1893), Brompton Cemeteryoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2015

2014

"The Lately Discovered Depredations at Lambeth Burial Ground" - grave robbing south of the river 1794.original ↗
23 Dec 2014
No rest for the wicked; Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) original interment Westminster Abbey, head now buried Sidney Sussex College Chapel, location of body unknownoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2014
Sharkbait - snatched from the Jaws of Death, Sir Brook Watson (1735-1807), St Mary the Virgin, Mortlakeoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2014
The poet, the muse and the abortionist; Ernest Dowson (1867-1900), Ladywell and Brockley Cemetery & Adelaide Foltinowicz (1878-1904)original ↗
21 Nov 2014
The pills that cured all ills; James Morison the Hygeist (1770-1840), Kensal Green Cemeteryoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2014
Martha Gall-Bianchi (1897-1936), Hampstead Cemetery and Cesare Bianchi (1898-1945), City of London Cemeteryoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2014
Spending eternity alone - Colonel Alexander Gordon (1840-1910), Putney Vale Cemeteryoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2014
Tommy Lawrence (1983-2011), East London Cemetery, Plaistoworiginal ↗
14 Oct 2014
Marriage is just a piece of paper - George William Lancaster and Louisa Mary Wilkinson (East Sheen Cemetery)original ↗
6 Oct 2014
Dying for a dog - William French (1846-1896), St Pancras & Islington Cemeteryoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2014
Caravaggio and the IRA; Percival Lea-Wilson (1894-1920), Putney Vale Cemeteryoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2014
Catherine Deneuve's Bellville Rendezvous; Hercules Bellville (1939-2003), Highgate East Cemeteryoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2014
Mysterious Fire in Kensal Green Cemetery - 18 August 1865original ↗
9 Sept 2014
The Gold Scab; Frederick Richards Leyland (1831-1892), Brompton Cemeteryoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2014
Father Nigel Bourne (1906 -1990) Catholic Priest and father of four; Chiswick New Cemeteryoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2014
It is never too late to become a hero (or heroine); Betsi Cadwaladyr (Elizabeth Davies) 1789 - 1860, Abney Park Cemeteryoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2014
"Suicide of a Japanese Prince"; Nagayori Asano (1865-1886), Brompton Cemeteryoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2014
The price of fame; Joyce and Ronald McQueen, Manor Park Cemetery and Crematoriumoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2014
The posthumous life of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemeteryoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2014
Polly Peachum and the Black Hole of Calcutta; Mrs Isabella Vincent-Mills and Captain John Mills, St Pancras Old Churchyardoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2014
The Ratcliffe Highway Murders (3); John Williams (1784-1811) buried at the crossroads at the junction of Cable Street and Cannon Street Roadoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2014
The Ratcliffe Highway Murders (2): John and Catherine Willimson and Bridget Harrington (December 1811) St Paul's Churchyard, Shadwelloriginal ↗
12 Jun 2014
The Ratcliffe Highway Murders (1); The Marr family, St George in the east churchyard, James Gowen, the Baptist Burial Ground, Goodman Fieldsoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2014
"The £8 million Grave"; William Blake's lost drawingsoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2014
St Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Greenoriginal ↗
19 May 2014
Thomas Joseph & Esther Tate, St Marylebone Cemetery (East Finchley)original ↗
13 May 2014
John Crook (1827-1902) and Grace Sophie Crook (1830-1914), Kensal Green Cemeteryoriginal ↗
6 May 2014
General György Kmety, 1813-1865, Kensal Green Cemeteryoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2014
Henry Taylor, Pallbearer, killed by a coffin 1872, Kensal Green Cemeteryoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2014
Jonathan Tyers, 1702-1767, St Mary Magdalen, Bermondseyoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2014
Reginald Alfred Alabaster, 1922-1944, Barkingside Cemeteryoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2014
Mae Amos, 1910-1937, Ilford Cemetery, Buckingham Roadoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2014
Richard Honey & George Francis, slain 14th August 1821, St Paul's Churchyard, Hammersmithoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2014
Joseph Denison, c1726-1806, Bunhill Fieldsoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2014
William (1757-1827) and Catherine (1762-1831) Blake, Bunhill Fieldsoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2014
Laurence Sterne, 1713 – 1768, St George’s Field Burial Groundoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2014
Joshua Compston, 1970-1996, Kensal Greenoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2014
Kensal Green Cemetery; after the rain.original ↗
24 Jan 2014
Maria Van Butchell (died 1775, Hunterian Museum) & Martin Van Butchell (1735-1814) St George's Field Burial Ground, Bayswateroriginal ↗
21 Jan 2014
Miss Johnson, the Hunterian Museum (1775-1941) & John Sheldon (1752-1808) Combe Raleigh Churchyardoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2014
The Burnside Memorial, Brompton Cemeteryoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2014
George Solon Ladd, Kensal Greenoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2014

2013

Herbert William Allingham, Kensal Greenoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2013
Kensal Green Cemeteryoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2013
Ardath de Sales Stean, Hampstead Cemeteryoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2013
Caroline Crachami, the Sicilian Fairy, Hunterian Museumoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2013
The Waddington Quintuplets, Hunterian Museumoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2013
Alexander Joseph Dourof, 'last of the sword swallowers', Camberwell Old Cemeteryoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2013
Rowland & Mary Eliza Stephenson, All Hallows, Tottenhamoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2013
Agnes Forsyth, 4 years old, Abney Parkoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2013
Philipson Mausoleum, Golders Green Crematoriumoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2013
PC 403 William Frederick Tyler, Abney Parkoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2013
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