Deceased Online have added the records for Overleigh Cemetery 1850 – 1953 to their website.

• The records date from 1850 to 1953; records for 1953 to October 2011, the Overleigh ‘New’ Cemetery, are already on www.deceasedonline.com.
• The records comprise burial register scans and grave details; maps indicating grave locations will be added in the near future.
• Overleigh Cemetery contains many historically interesting burials and beautiful memorials such as the celebrated ‘Queen of the Gypsies’, Mary Finney, and her husband Guilderoy Finney.
• The Cemetery also has many records featuring Irish names so will be of interest to the Irish diaspora.
• The total dataset for the council area, Cheshire West and Chester, now comprises over 200,000 burial and cremation records.
• For further details, see the ‘database coverage’ section at www.deceasedonline.com.