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Graveyards???
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Baby | Report | 24 Feb 2005 16:32 |
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I am planning to go to where most of my grandfathers family originated from(graveley,Cambridgeshire) to visit the garave of those i know are buried there,how many do i have a realistic hope of finding as isnt it after a while they take away the garvestones.the last known burial of an arbon was around 1900 |
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Jane | Report | 24 Feb 2005 16:35 |
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Donna, If it's a 'council' cemetery, you might find that the local office has records/map of the plots. I got lucky with one that way. Otherwise, you could try making contact with the Church concerned to see if they have a register of burials. In hindsight, I would never have found my ancestors had I just gone yomping around ... the stones were not obvious, although the inscriptions from the late 1800s were still legible. Good luck. Jane |
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Lucky | Report | 24 Feb 2005 16:37 |
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I have found a lot of stones very hard to read from that age back. If you have plot numbers etc., that will be a help but also some people didn't actually have a gravestone. Can you contact anyone to do with the graveyard first to see if they can advise you |
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Baby | Report | 24 Feb 2005 16:38 |
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thanks Jane, I have lots of details about them just wanted to see where they lived etc,i thought that after 100 years after the last person buried they could build over it? |
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MarionfromScotland | Report | 24 Feb 2005 16:43 |
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Hi, I cant remember what it is called, but in my local library they have a book which gives you names of the graveyards in the area. It has names dates and a map of where exactly they are., it even described the head stone. Ask at the libary where you are going, they might have one too. I found 3 of one family who all died in 1866, so finding out what happened to them is now on my 'must do' list. good luck Marion |
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