In what started as a journey to find my Irish roots in Jersey City and to account for all the children and grandchildren of my Thomas and Bridget (nee Norton) Dolan, I decided to memorialize all the burials in the older St. Peter's Cemetery, the majority of whom were Irish immigrants and their descendants..

I've photographed and charted St. Peter's Cemetery, Jersey City , N.J., in its entirety. 98% of the memorials on Find a Grave now have a photo(s) attached. I've entered 10,150+ new memorials as well. As of 6/25/2023, all the individual burial cards have been entered for the 1416 identified plots.

Single plots in St. Peter's can hold up to 24 burials. St. Peter's plots are NUMBER (1-100), NO. or SO. (north or south of the lone path), LETTER (A-I). St. Peter's graves are not listed on rcancem.org as of 12/2023, the diocese website, whereas Holy Name burials are. Just because the letter head on the burial card says "Cemetery of the Holy Name", one should not automatically assume they are in the larger and newer Holy Name which opened in 1864. Headstones and rcancem listings with deaths prior to 1864 are a sure sign that person was removed from their original burial place and reinterred in Holy Name. Check the burial date and confirm with the daybook entry. St. Peter's also offered individual sales/burials within certain plots meaning your person maybe in a grave with 20+ other uknown people.

A frequent question is "why did you attach a headstone that does not match the person's surname on the memorial"? The oldest burials may not have had a stone or it no longer exists from 150+ years ago. Frequently the headstone in the photo reflects more recent burials and their surnames rather than the surnames of their ancestors.

Records for both cemeteries can be found online at a Family Search History Center or affiliate library. Keep in mind that all burials do not appear on the combined and alphabetized Cemetery of The Holy Name (Holy Name & St. Peter's) index cards AND not everyone has an individual burial card BUT all names appear in the daybooks as those were the day to day ledger charges for all purchases, burials and removals. Hopefully your year isn't one that is missing.

I am very glad to transfer any grave of a person not related to me. I am happy you found them. I've met people from Nova Scotia to Florida to California as well as England, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand on this project and I am thrilled to be able to help them connect to their family.

I also photograph in Hillside Cemetery in Lyndhurst and will add other memorials that catch my eye from historical newspapers. My own ancestors are centered in northern New Jersey, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Putnam and Westchester Counties in NY.

In what started as a journey to find my Irish roots in Jersey City and to account for all the children and grandchildren of my Thomas and Bridget (nee Norton) Dolan, I decided to memorialize all the burials in the older St. Peter's Cemetery, the majority of whom were Irish immigrants and their descendants..

I've photographed and charted St. Peter's Cemetery, Jersey City , N.J., in its entirety. 98% of the memorials on Find a Grave now have a photo(s) attached. I've entered 10,150+ new memorials as well. As of 6/25/2023, all the individual burial cards have been entered for the 1416 identified plots.

Single plots in St. Peter's can hold up to 24 burials. St. Peter's plots are NUMBER (1-100), NO. or SO. (north or south of the lone path), LETTER (A-I). St. Peter's graves are not listed on rcancem.org as of 12/2023, the diocese website, whereas Holy Name burials are. Just because the letter head on the burial card says "Cemetery of the Holy Name", one should not automatically assume they are in the larger and newer Holy Name which opened in 1864. Headstones and rcancem listings with deaths prior to 1864 are a sure sign that person was removed from their original burial place and reinterred in Holy Name. Check the burial date and confirm with the daybook entry. St. Peter's also offered individual sales/burials within certain plots meaning your person maybe in a grave with 20+ other uknown people.

A frequent question is "why did you attach a headstone that does not match the person's surname on the memorial"? The oldest burials may not have had a stone or it no longer exists from 150+ years ago. Frequently the headstone in the photo reflects more recent burials and their surnames rather than the surnames of their ancestors.

Records for both cemeteries can be found online at a Family Search History Center or affiliate library. Keep in mind that all burials do not appear on the combined and alphabetized Cemetery of The Holy Name (Holy Name & St. Peter's) index cards AND not everyone has an individual burial card BUT all names appear in the daybooks as those were the day to day ledger charges for all purchases, burials and removals. Hopefully your year isn't one that is missing.

I am very glad to transfer any grave of a person not related to me. I am happy you found them. I've met people from Nova Scotia to Florida to California as well as England, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand on this project and I am thrilled to be able to help them connect to their family.

I also photograph in Hillside Cemetery in Lyndhurst and will add other memorials that catch my eye from historical newspapers. My own ancestors are centered in northern New Jersey, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Putnam and Westchester Counties in NY.