Records of the deceased

By law, all interments need to be recorded in public burial registers and grave registers. These are available to look at by appointment. Shown below are some helpful links:

• Find my past - census, land and surveys: census information: census information
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC): register details of all the Commonwealth war dead
• General register office: how to obtain information on births, deaths and marriages
• Suffolk record office: for local records since the 12th century
• The Nation Archive: documents, files and images covering 1,000 years of history

Find out where someone has been laid to rest

All the records for Haverhill and Bury St Edmunds cemeteries are electronically stored as are most of the records for Newmarket cemetery.

To help us find the person you were looking for we need as much information as possible:

• full name
• age
• date of death, and
• cemetery name.

Contact us by email cemeteries@westsuffolk.gov.uk