The burial registers for the Abbey have until recently been un-indexed and with the need to consult the microfiche copies at either Bath Record office or the Somerset Heritage Centre.
Transcripts of the Register of Bath Abbey 1801-1840 and of the Register of Bath Abbey & St James Burials (Poor) at Widcombe 1784-1840. E S Jenkins (1980).
The Registers of the Abbey Church of SS Peter and Paul Bath, edited by Arthur J Jewers, Vol II (London, Harleian Society 1901)
Bath Abbey - Alphabetical index of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1743-1940 – Somerset Record Office D\P\ba.ab/2/9/1 (microfiche).
The National Burial Index 3 has 2,397 entries for Abbey parish for the period 1668-1945 provided by the Somerset & Dorset Family History Society but these records are not complete; there should be over 5,000 entries alone for those buried in Bath Abbey cemetery. In addition the list of years covered indicates that the records are incomplete. There are over 3,000 records in the transcript by Arthur Jewers which covers the period 1569-1800.
The Abbey is rich in internal memorials and these are documented in: Memorial Inscriptions in Bath Abbey, by J Dunn 1914 [Bath Record Office and Bath Central Library]. See also Somerset Record Office Somerset Record Office DD\TB/20/2 and Bath Abbey's Monuments: An Illustrated History by Oliver Taylor (The History Press, 2023).
In addition, where a flat slab on the floor served as the memorial, there is Inscriptions on the Flat Stones in the Bath Abbey Church copied by Charles P Russell (Parish Clerk) at the Time of the Restoration of the Church in 1872. [Bath Record Office] This is handwritten and has an accompanying map (see figure above).
Bath Abbey – Burial Register Name & Memorial Indexes. Widcombe Association 2013. Contains name, floor memorial and wall memorial indexes, the memorial indexes based on the prior documentation of floor and wall memorials. For an entry in the burial register any floor and/or wall memorial reference is given. [Bath Record Office]
