Copies of the registers for the ancient parishes in the area, namely

St Nicholas, Deptford
St Alfege, Greenwich
St Luke, Charlton
St Mary Magdalene, Woolwich
St Nicholas, Plumstead
St John, Eltham

and also for some of the more recent parish churches. Note that the holdings are not complete, particularly in the case of St John, Eltham. Please ring for details.

Transcripts of tombstones and monumental inscriptions for the following burial grounds

St Nicholas, Deptford
St Alfege, Greenwich
St Luke, Deptford
St Thomas, Charlton
St Mary Magdalene, Woolwich
St Margaret, Lee

Records of burials in the borough’s municipal cemeteries are held by the Cemetery Services Department. Please ring 020 8856 2232.

Records of the Royal Hospital for Seamen burial grounds are held at the National Archives.

Eltham Crematorium, Crown Woods Way, London SE9 1AZ. Borough of Greenwich. The records for Eltham Crematorium will shortly be available online at www.deceasedonline.com. 

The crematorium opened in 1956 and is one of the busiest in the UK. Approximately 208,000 cremation register records are expected to be made available, with a mixture of register scans and computerised records. Maps showing the location of memorials are expected to be added in due course.

Scope of the data - Eltham Crematorium. Initially, around 61,500 records are available online, covering the period from 21 May 1996 to 14 February 2011. This information is available as computerised data only. No scans are available. The data typically includes name, cremation number, date of burial, date of death, age, sex, marital status, denomination, (sometime) occupation, and death registration details. Information on the disposal of ashes may also be available. Addresses will be available where the date of cremation was over 15 years ago. Note For the purposes of the UK Data Protection Act, the names and addresses of funeral applicants during the last 75 years have been withheld from publication. Eltham Crematorium has also requested that the addresses of the deceased not be shown in cremation records for the last 15 years.

Few historical coroners’ records survive, as there was no requirement for them to be kept for more that a few years, and no set repository for them.

Those that do survive could be in any of the relevant local record offices, in this case the Centre for Kentish Studies, the London Metropolitan Archive or the Greenwich Heritage Centre.

However, GHC does not hold any coroner’s records. It is usually more fruitful to search the local newspapers for a report on the inquests held at the local Coroner's Court.

GHC has copies of the local papers on microfilm.