Eccleshill Congregational Church

Chapel Street Cemetery

(closed 1983)

This publication is a CD-ROM containing transcriptions of the Burial Registers of Eccleshill Congregational Church, Bradford, for July 1837 - April 1869, January 1880 - September 1887, and January 1909 - July 1983 and Grave Registers for Chapel Street cemetery for 1823 – 1983.

A transcription is also included of the Monumental Inscriptions from the work of Arthur Blackburn* in the 1920s, and of extant memorials in 2007. The data is presented in the same order as in the Registers, and is in PDF format which is fully searchable. PDF files require Adobe Reader to be installed on the user’s computer and a copy of Adobe Reader Version 6 for Windows is included on the CD.

System requirements: Windows 95 or later, Monitor display of 800x600 or higher.

* The Blackburn Registers. In the late 1920s and early 1930s Arthur Blackburn recorded, in over 100 volumes, the monumental inscriptions of graveyards, churchyards and cemeteries in and around Bradford. These have been indexed by Philip Rushworth, the founding chairman of Bradford F.H.S. Microfilm copies can be consulted at Bradford Central Library and can be borrowed through a Family History Centre of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, the Mormons.

Surname search facility

Click here to see which surnames appear in the index and over what period.

Price in POUNDS STERLING including postage and packing

The CD is available for payment:

1. by STERLING CHEQUE from Mrs Sandra Hodgson, 14 Greenville Drive, Low Moor, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD12 0PP, England. Please make cheques payable in STERLING to "Bradford Family History Society", or

2. by CREDIT CARD at the GENfair website, however prices from GENfair may differ slightly because postage charges are separately calculated by weight, and UK & EC customers are also charged Value Added Tax (VAT) on fiches and CDs.