This Record of the Monumental Inscriptions at the Fordham Road Cemetery, Soham, Cambridgeshire, was made by Tim & Julie Webb of Soham between 2004 and 2010 as time permitted. It was prepared originally in text form on paper, but this being to costly to produce, it was decided to copy the records on to a DVD. This electronic version comprises the full text of the transcript, with the addition of photographs of the graves taken during the transcription, as well as purchase and burial details taken from the original purchase and burial registers held at the Soham Town Council offices at the Walter Gidney Pavilion, Fountain Lane, Soham. Not all of the cemetery was transcribed, we decided to stop transcribing at section P, as the remainder of the cemetery is for much later burials, and it was thought this would be inappropriate, perhaps in the years to come someone will continue were we have left off.

The Plan of the cemetery which accompanies this record is from the original held at the Soham Town Council offices, making the numbering of unreadable monuments quite accurate, as well as recording who is actually buried there.

The Numbering System used to identify the graves, splits the part of the cemetery that has been recorded into 14 sections, designated by the initial letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P. This letter is followed by a number indicating the individual grave within the section. The grave numbers used in these records are the original numbers that were given to the plots and cross reference with the Purchase and Burial registers that were consulted.

The Convention Used when we recorded the inscriptions in paper form, was the standard method, There is no attempt to follow the capitalization, or typeface of the original inscription. All punctuation visible on the stone is transcribed as accurately as possible, within the limitations of the computer typeface. Where part of a stone is not decipherable square brackets are used to indicate missing letters or words, or whole lines, thus [___] or other possible alternatives as indicated. In the original paper transcripts the "/ " symbol was used to indicate line ends, in order to save space. In this DVD version, space is not at a premium and the lines are placed as found on the stone. However no attempt has been made to fit the modern type to the correct line lengths and all the lines are centered. The true layout can usually be judged from the photograph.

Stone Vases and other Smaller Monuments bearing no inscriptions have been included in the records, we have recorded these and given them the appropriate grave number for the location they were found at, including who is buried there at that location and other additional information, but it should be noted that these types of monuments may have been moved over the years from elsewhere in the cemetery and may not be in their original location.

Additional Information about the grave, is shown in italics. Normally this consists of a brief description of the grave, preceding the inscription. In all cases further information has been added, in italics following the inscription or were there is no inscription noted. This information has been taken from the original Purchase and Burial registers, and is indicated thus: [PR] = Purchase Register and [BR] = Burial Register. SEE DEMO PAGE HERE .

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