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Buried with no headstone.....

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Jenny

Jenny Report 31 Jul 2009 19:08

Thank you for all your advice, I will be contacting the local council on Monday. I might also try the Hounslow Library as well as I went there some years ago and they had the records for some of the churches around for BMD. Got a few other queries i want to look up so may as well have a look for burials while I am there.

Sorry for the late response an OH with Swine Flu is taking up rather a lot of my time!

Jenny

Madmeg

Madmeg Report 31 Jul 2009 02:33

Also helpful - High Peak (Derbyshire), Macclesfield (Cheshire), Newton Abbot, Southampton.

Many people didn't have headstones, or they have decayed/broken over the years and been removed for safety reasons.

Margaret

Pam

Pam Report 30 Jul 2009 17:33

In the cemetery where a lot of my relatives are buried the maintenance staff have the records of burials in their office.

Researching:
Middlesex, Berkshire and Somerset

Angela

Angela Report 30 Jul 2009 10:41

Wembley, Middlesex, West Drayton, Middlesex and Crayford, Kent also helpful and free.

Angela

Joy

Joy Report 30 Jul 2009 09:08

Contact the Head of Bereavement Services at the local council.

As Ann said, Portsmouth do not charge; I had similar helpful service from them, also Lewisham and Lambeth are helpful.

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 30 Jul 2009 09:03

Is there a cemeteries office, or a local cemeteries department. try looking on the web. I just contacted the local cemeteries department and they sent me the plot number and a diagram. Depends on the area how helpful they are, Portsmouth made no charge a couple of years ago.

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

Jenny

Jenny Report 30 Jul 2009 08:58

Another bit of advice please....

How do you find someones burial plot if there is no headstone. My OHs great grandfather was buried in the 1950/60s in a local cemetery but after searching yesterday and on the advice of his father we believe he was buried without a headstone :(

I dont no were to start on confirming if he was buried there!

Thanks
Jenny