Discover your Story at Wrexham Cemetery

What do you know about your family? Do you have noble ancestors or more humble roots? Will you find proud achievements or shady dealings if you delve into your past?

If you are interested in family history or just want to find out more about an individual buried in the Cemetery, then here is a great opportunity. Our records go back to 1876 and give details of name, age at death, dates of death and burial, as well as location of the burial plot. All you need to start with is a name and an approximate date. Cemetery staff will be happy to help you examine the records and find individual graves. You could be lucky and find some gems of information inscribed on a headstone.

Want to know more?

Why not visit Wrexham Archives and Local Studies Service, at the A.N. Palmer Centre in Regent Street.  It is a great place to research family and local history with its rich sources of information including:

• Births, marriages and deaths indexes
• Census returns
• National Probate Indexes
• Parish registers
• Old newspapers
• Burgess rolls and electoral lists
• Trade directories
• Ordnance Survey and tithe maps

There is Internet access to genealogical and historical sites and a fascinating collection of original documents, plans and photographs to give you an insight into what life was like in Wrexham years ago.