Burial Registers
Burial registers are the most obvious place to search for a death in England or Wales prior to July 1837, or Scotland prior to January 1855, but they can still be useful after those dates because they sometimes offer additional information to death indexes and certificates, like religious denomination and middle names. People buried by their local church will be listed in Anglican parish registers held in county archives, some digitised on ancestry.co.uk and
findmypast.co.uk, and there are additional free indexes at familysearch.org and freereg.org.uk.
Old Parish Registers from the Church of Scotland and Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, and some other Presbyterian churches, can be found on scotlandspeople.gov.uk.
Many nonconformist burial registers are on ancestry.co.uk, findmypast.co.uk and
thegenealogist.co.uk, but from the 19th century onwards increasing numbers of people were buried in non-denominational cemeteries, often now managed by local councils. Many municipal and privately owned cemetery registers can be searched at deceasedonline.com, including cremation registers. Burial registers on this website usually name anybody else buried in the same grave, and give a plot number. The managers of most cemeteries should be able to supply you with a map showing plot locations.
You may need to apply by email or post, but check online first as some have online facilities such as the Richmond upon Thames database at www2.richmond.gov.uk/lbrburials.