BEVERLEY, ST MARTINS CEMETERY RECORDS

Contains registers of burials 1861-1994, interment book 1861-1963, details of ownership and burials 1870-1982, alphabetical index to graves nd., register of stillborn children (Queensgate cemetery from 1950) 1927-1965, burial and fees book 1894-1897, curator's burial and fees book 1891-1910, records of burials and fees 1911-1969, index of receipts and particulars 1870-1903, interment book or register of graves [no names] 1861-1889, registers of grants of graves 1864-1954

<p>See also CM11 for records of East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley cemeteries 1974-1996 and CM13 for records of East Riding of Yorkshire Council cemeteries 1996-, which incorporate references to Beverley Cemeteries. Other registers are held at CM3/1, PE129/28/1. Minute books 1859-1903 are held at BCIV/3/1-3.</p>

Records have been transferred by East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council and consist of the following amalgamated accessions or part accessions: 1295, 1480, 4030, 4174.

St Martin's Cemetery was opened in 1861 and adjoined Cartwright Lane. The cemetery was administered by a joint Burial Board of St John and St Martin. The Beverley Corporation took over the St Martin's Burial Board and ground in 1904. Responsibility for the cemetery was transferred to the East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley Council in 1974 and then to East Riding of Yorkshire Council in 1996.