General Chat

Anyone who says the town council in Witney is cheap, better not say it in my hearing. :-P I just received 2 grave locations, which they change 20 pounds each for, for free!! all because it would be too problematic to collect their money.

OHH sometimes it pays to live outside the country!!! :-D

That would be a lot of money per grave location. The few I had a few years ago were all free.

It was £20 in 1990 to have one grave details from a London Council..they dont refund if not found.

Thanks to a very kind person here, I had all the information that they would need to find them, they have been lost for soooooooooo long. To bad my grandfather isn't around anymore, he would be trilled with all I have found out.

Now I don't know how graveyards are numbered but shouldn't Charles [1089] have a lower number than his brother Hubert [1010] who died eight years later? At least they ended up in the same section, not to far apart.

I think numbering depends on the type of graveyard.

Old village churches weren't numbered until recently, when genealogy became popular at about the same time as the "Topple test" was introduced. I visited one church a few years ago and happened to meet the person responsible for numbering. She had just finished doing it and was very helpful.

Large purpose-built cemeteries though were numbered from the start, mainly because they were so big.

So small churchyards are numbered in rows and large cemeteries chronologically - although there are sometimes exceptions!!