Burial Records
Looking for an ancestor, or for a family grave you have lost track of? Start here.
The searchable index is being prepared
Our register exists on paper and is being transcribed. Until the index is published here, a volunteer will search it for you by hand.
Ask us to search the register
The cemetery’s register is the authoritative record of who is buried here, including people whose graves were never marked or whose stones no longer survive. A volunteer will search it for you at no charge.
The more of the following you can give us, the better our chances:
- Surname, including spelling variants and maiden names
- Given names, including nicknames the family used
- Approximate year of death, even to the nearest decade
- Names of parents, spouse or siblings who may be buried nearby
- Anything you already know about the plot location
Please allow a couple of weeks. Everyone doing this work has another job.
Other places to look
A transcription of the stones in this cemetery has been made independently, and there is a good photographic record. These are the first places we would send a researcher.
Find a Grave
Roughly 135 memorials from this cemetery, about 93 per cent of them photographed. Free to search, and you can request a photograph of a specific stone.
Ontario Genealogical Society
The OGS holds transcriptions of Russell County cemeteries, including The Hammond Cemeteries, which records the stones in both burial grounds at Hammond. Copies are held by several Ontario libraries.
Civil registration
Ontario death registrations, and the burial permits issued under them, are the documentary spine of any search. Held by the Archives of Ontario and indexed on the major genealogy sites.
Church and parish records
Because this ground served several Protestant denominations, the burial may be recorded in the register of a Presbyterian, Methodist, Anglican or United Church congregation in the district rather than by the cemetery.
Ask us and we will suggest which to try.
Help us complete the record
Transcription is slow, and stones that were cut in the 1880s do not read as clearly as they did. If you can add to what we hold — a burial we have missed, a correction to a date, a photograph of a stone before it weathered, a plot diagram drawn by a grandparent — please send it. Contributions are credited unless you ask us not to.
A note on privacy
We publish the names, dates and plot locations of people who are buried here, because that is what a burial ground is for and what every researcher needs. We do not publish the contact details of living interment rights holders, and we do not pass on family contact information to third parties. See our privacy notice.