Maidstone, Kent burials at Union Street Methodist Church

Description

To mark the 200th anniversary of the Church building, Kent Family History Society was asked by the Church to assist in transcribing and indexing the burial registers of the Church which were, at that time, on temporary loan from Kent History and Library Centre in Maidstone. The burial register dates back to the mid-1800s when there was a non-conformist burial ground on the church premises. After the civic burial ground was opened in the 1860s, burials only continued at Union Street for family members of those interned. The last one was in 1952. After that the headstones were moved to the edge of the ground and the burial site became a grassed lawn. The burial site at the rear of the church is now a car park.