Buried in Cumnor

Cataloguing

It took little more than a few hours for us to photograph the 700+ readable graves, then many more spent cropping the photos neatly...

Transcribing them all took months as numerous graves were extremely difficult to read due to lichen and weathering. In some instances, we had to get creative, relying on 1986 the Cumnor History society church survey and known positions. Knowing the names & dates assisted with those that were hard to read. Some are simply from logical deduction & elimination.

Linking the transcription to a person’s birth, baptism, marriage & death records, their obituary, parents, siblings and children required extensive searching of FreeBMD, local newspapers, OFHS burial index, Ancestry & the 1986 Cumnor History society church survey website.

To aid us we developed custom software to help:

• creating a database to capture the data
• plotting the coordinates from the 1986 church survey onto their map to help identify graves
• overlaying a Google terrain map, and enabling placement of pins more accurately
• rendering a map for each person, including a positional map to help you find the grave you’re looking for in relation to others.

If you'd like assistance with your genealogy research at a competitive rate, please contact Sarah on sarahsfamilyhistory@outlook.com who is the co-founder of this website.

Or if you're related to the Inness family of Cumnor, she would also be interested to hear from you!