Key Hill Cemetery - Resources

[leslam]

Please use this thread to add resources about Key Hill Cemetery. For example:

• plans of the layout of the grave sections
• transcriptions/photos of particular graves
• links to published material

Note: please continue to use the main Key Hill Cemetery thread for queries/requests

 

[leslam]

FAMILYSEARCH
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Familysearch have been scanning out-of-print books and magazines that provide (free) rich-pickings is you use the Search options

For example:

1. Log into familysearch
2. Select Books from the menu bar
3. Type Warwickshire into the Search box and click Search.

The fourth item in the list is Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, Birmingham General Cemetery monumental inscriptions (on Icknield Street, Hockley).
This is a list of transcriptions of many memorials that was copied in 1946

Hope you find it useful!

 

[Jayell]

Thanks for the tip Leslam. I will check it out later!

 

[anthea]

Thank you Leslam for the information which may be useful.

 

[leslam]

FIND A GRAVE
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There are 385 Key Hill interments listed on Find A Grave www.findagrave.com.

Click here to link to the listing for Key Hill.

If you have photos and transcriptions of Key Hill graves that aren't listed, you can and these to the site by following the instructions.

 

[pollypops]

The Jewellery Quarter Research Group (JQRG) has a free to search database of Burials and Memorial inscriptions for Key Hill Cemetery (and Warstone Lane Cemetery)

https://www.jqrg.org/index.html