Oakland / Proudfoot   Additions/Corrections Offer A Lookup Submit Photos   LOCATION: Street Address: 390 Oxford St W City: London Lot/Concession: Township: London Township County/District: Middlesex County Municipality: City of London Province: ON GPS: 42.986556,-81.283915 Can you fill in any of these location blanks? HISTORY / ABOUT: Church (if this cemetery is affiliated with a church): Denomination: When established, first interment, where land orginated, etc: Oakland Cemetery was instituted as a cemetery in 1855 by the United Presbyterian Church Congregation on the west side of the site. In 1864 the Wesleyan Methodist New Connections Church established its cemetery on the east side, and in 1882 the two groups amalgamated their holdings into Oakland Cemetery, also known as the Scotch Cemetery and Proudfoot Cemetery. The cemetery was left unattended and neglected for many years, except for the efforts of Reverend Elson who tried to clean the cemetery up in the early 1950s' and Oakridge Secondary School students who undertook Project '75 with another clean up. Unfortunately their efforts were never continued. The Cemetery was conveyed by deed to Mount Pleasant Cemetery (London) Inc. in 1982 by the Metropolitan United church and the First St. Andrews United Church on the basis of an undertaking by Mount Pleasant to willingly guarantee "to rebuild and redesign said property maintaining the traditional dignity of a cemetery property to the high standards of Mount Pleasant Cemetery".... All historical burial and lot records were destroyed in a house fire many years ago. While no one knows the exact number of interments made, because of the practice of unmarked graves, the estimates range from 350 - 574 burials. Can you fill in any of these history blanks? Notes: Owned and operated by Mount Pleasant Cemetery (London) Inc. TRANSCRIPT / INDEX: On the Internet: Index: OCFA (Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid) Photos: CanadaGenWeb's Cemetery Project Offline and/or for purchase: Transcript: London & Middlesex County Branch, OGS For further information about transcripts or indexes for sale please follow the link provided and contact the organization that is selling. Microfilm: Archives of Ontario For further information about transcripts available on microfilm please follow the link provided. Note that microfilm available at the Archives of Ontario or National Archives of Canada can be borrowed by most Canadian libraries (through inter-library loan). Microfilms available from the LDS can be borrowed worldwide, check with your local Family History Centre. Do you have information on where transcripts or indexes of this cemetery can be found? If they're not listed above, please help us out by submitting information LOOKUPS All existing headstones have been photographed and are available on our website Do you live near this cemetery? Would you be willing to do lookups or take photographs of stones in this cemetery? Volunteer here SOURCES / THANKS Andrew Timleck Linda Fitches

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