Leeds General Cemetery

Our student interns, Imogen Gerard and Kelsie Root, worked with the Leeds General Cemetery Collections over the summer of 2017. This cemetery is the green space on University campus now known as St George’s Field.

Special Collections in the Brotherton Library holds the cemetery’s Burial Registers, which provide a detailed record of interments at the site between 1835 and 1969. The registers have been recently digitised in an interactive index. This can be searched online, making the index a useful tool for researchers and family historians.

Imogen and Kelsie's work shed more light on this fascinating collection. They approached the cemetery's records from a variety of disciplines including statistical analysis, medical history and genealogy, and published this work on our blog.