Looking for a grave?

We just want to give a few pointers:

• Burials in the Cemetery began in August 1865.  Before then references to ‘Fulham cemetery’ usually mean the parish churchyard at All Saints, Fulham, and sometimes the cemetery at West Brompton.

• Details of all the burials in 1865 have been transcribed by the Friends of the Cemetery.

• A new cemetery at Sheen opened in 1909 and after that date references to ‘Fulham Cemetery’ can be to either the ‘old’ cemetery in Fulham Palace Road or the ‘new’ one in Sheen. By the 1930s most mentions of ‘Fulham Cemetery’ refer to interments at Sheen, however there were still burials in private graves in the ‘old’ Cemetery (each plot allowed up to six internments) and the Council allowed cremation urns.

• In the late 20th century the Council decided to create gardens of rest and some sections of the cemetery were grassed over with the gravestones removed or buried so that they are no longer visible.

The Hammersmith and Fulham Local Studies and Archives Centre holds the archives for the Cemetery and other interesting documents, books, maps, photographs and old newspapers. The staff and volunteers will be happy to assist your research. 

Contacting the Archives

• The Archives Centre can be contacted at archives@lbhf.gov.uk 

• For all enquiries regarding locating graves email cemeteries@lbhf.gov.uk or telephone 020 8878 1934.

• H&F Council website: Local studies and archives

• The archives catalogue is accessible here: Hammersmith and Fulham Local Studies and Archives

The following records are held:

• Interment Registers 1865 to 1900 (PAF/1/9/12) Available on microfilm in the search room

• Interment Registers 1901 to 1960 (PAF/2/12/14)

• Burial Registers 1865 to 1884 (PAF/1/9/4) Available on micro-film in the search room

• Burial Registers 1885 to 1909 (PAF/2/12/3, 8 & 15) Burial Registers (PAF/2/12/1 - 12)

• Infant Deaths (PAF/1/11)

• Infant Deaths (PAF/2/14)6

Other records of interest held by H&F Archives include:

• Register of Inspectors' Reports of Cases of Infectious Diseases 1890 to1893

• Register of Inquests held at Fulham Coroners' Court 1899 to 1916

• Hammersmith Infant Deaths 1871 to 1894

Findagrave.com is a free, global, community-based database which allows users to find the location of burials around the world. As part of an ongoing project, Friends of the Cemetery are photographing, logging and researching the graves still visible and placing this information on Findagrave for Fulham Cemetery.

Most of the graves with photographs have a GPS location and there is an interactive map which allows you to pinpoint exactly where a burial is in the cemetery.

As of August 2025, over 2,450 graves have been added to the Fulham Cemetery page, 72% of which have a photograph and 39% of which have GPS.

The Friends have set up a ‘family’ tree for those interred in the cemetery - known as ‘Fulham Old Cemetery’. This is open to all users of Ancestry.co.uk (a subscription service). The tree gives genealogical information about those interred including information about their lives derived from national censuses, parish records, trade directories, and wills.  

Local newspapers are a great source of information.  As well as telling you where a person was buried, they often give details of the burial itself including those in attendance. The reports of many burials in Fulham Cemetery can be found in the West London Observor and the Fulham Chronicle. These are both available from the British Newspaper Archive, a subscription service which can be accessed free at the local archives.

There is also a searchable collection of local history photographs on the London Picture Archive.