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Could anyone tell me how you can find out where a person is buried
Thanks
Angie

When & where?

Council graveyards started to be opened from the mid 1800s. The normal advice is to find out where the person died, then look for a council or cemetery website closest to the residential address. You can sometimes get basic details for free on https://www.deceasedonline.com/ but would need to buy a min £5 of credits to get further details.

Parish records are another good source - you can often find them on https://familysearch.org/ & https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_queries/new
Depending when & where, its always worth 'googling' for parish records in the most likely location. Some may be on subscription sites.

You could always try the British Newspaper Archive to see if there is an obit, or death notice. It won't give the plot details, but would not give you the plot details but would likely to give the cemetery. If you were hoping to find a hea\dstone - not everyone could afford one & many were buried with unrelated people in a common grave.

Cremation became more common from c1960 - if they aren't on deceasedonline look for local authority sites. Some have freely searchable data bases.

Many thanks, I am trying to find my dads grave

Some sad news. I knew my g x 4 grandfather was buried in the grounds of Romsey Abbey. Unfortunately, they decided to remove the headstones of 'commoners', and used them to form a path :-(

I also had the original form from my grandfather's first wife's burial in 1924
Plot number, cost - everything.
I went to the cemetery (municipal burial ground), found the plot - only to find someone else buried there.
I found out that, in the 1960's, the council decided plots - even if purchased outright, had a 'lifetime' of 30 years.

Angela, if you can't find a result on the free sites and would like help to access subscriptions ones, come back to the thread with a few details. eg name, when and where. Someone who died in December may not have been buried/cremated until January.

As maggiewinchester points out, there is always the possibility that the grave has been reused. Where graveyards have been full for some time, there is the possibility that the headstones have been removed & placed against the boundary and the whole area grassed over for ease of maintenance. That tends to happen to churchyards rather than municipal ones.