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- 1 - Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record.
Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:
C113364 1750 - 1854 1040071 Film 6900653 Film
Sheet: 00
2 - Entry in Callander parish baptisms
Where there is no surname M(a)cGregor is to be understood
Father/Mother Child Place
1812 John/Elizabeth McFarlan-James McFarlan-Callander
3 - Bunhill Fields is a former Dissenters' burial ground of four acres, bounded by City Road to the east and Bunhill Row to the west. Managed as a public open space by the City of London since 1867, it is the last survivor of London's once numerous small burial grounds (as distinct from churchyards).
It is the last resting place for an estimated 120,000 bodies, including three of Britain's most eminent Nonconformists - William Blake, John Bunyan and Daniel Defoe.
Many of the graves are packed closely together, giving an idea of how London's burial places looked before large cemeteries further from the centre of London opened from the 1830s onwards.
Bunhill today is a popular lunctime spot for office workers wishing to escape the hustle and bustle of the surrounding City.
The graveyard is well stocked with mature trees - planes, oaks and limes, together with a golden-barked ash, a black mulberry and a June-flowering winter bark tree, Drymis winteri, from South America. The trees provide cover for birds including tawny owls, magpies and nuthatches. A notable summer breeding visitor is the spotted flycatcher.
For a leaflet or further information on Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, please telephone the City Gardens office on 020 7374 4127. For information regarding burial records, please email the Guildhall Li <mailto:manuscripts.guildhall@cityoflondon.gov.uk>brary or visit the Burial Ground itself.
The Public Records Office <http://www.pro.gov.uk/> contains records of burials at Bunhill from 1713 to 1854. Guildhall Library </leisure_heritage/libraries_archives_museums_galleries/city_london_libraries/guildhall_lib.htm> houses other Bunhill material, including interment order books for 1789-1854 and a record of the inscriptions on the monuments as they were in 1869.
[http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/living_environment/open_spaces/bunhill.htm]
(Research):Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record
Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:
C113364 1750 - 1854 1040071 Film 6900653 Film
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