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Overleigh Cemetery, Chester, opened in 1850. For more about Overleigh Cemetery see Chester City Council Cemeteries and Crematorium . By 1854 many of the parish graveyards in Chester were closed and Overleigh Cemetery was the only municipal burial ground in the City until Blacon was opened in 1922. For details of parish burial registers see our main catalogues .

This database of the cemetery registers is the work of volunteers on three continents. It covers the years 1850-1950 and includes over 60,000 entries. The database includes information on every person buried in the cemetery: name, description, address, age, date of death and burial and grave number.

You can search for an individual or for everyone buried in a particular grave. There is also scope for social history by looking at date ranges, ages at death or addresses.