MyHeritage adds Warrington Burial Records

Warrington, Cheshire, midway and a bit south of the M62, on a line from Liverpool to Manchester, has 116,092 records in this burial collection new to MyHeritage. The transcription records typically include the name of the deceased, date of death, age at death, date and place of burial.  Often named are others buried in the same plot.

Included are 40,477 burials at Warrington cemetery, which opened on 26 March 1857. It’s the burial place of George Formby (George Hoy Booth) who died in 1961.

The small Burtonwood Cemetery dates from 1901. It has 5 CWGC burials.

Hollinfare Cemetery, also known as Hollins Green Cemetery, dates from 1894. Just 2,317 burials are included in the MyHeritage database including 6 CWGC burials.

Fox Covert Cemetery has 9,616 burials dating from 1961.

The lion’s share of the database entries, 60,927, are for Walton Lea Crematorium, opened in 1964.

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