There is a bereavement services division at the council offices in Blackwood
Gwent
From: "Jenny Anderton" <jenny(a)jenmike.freeserve.co.uk>
To: MONMOUTHSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [Mon] Shared Graves Question
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:27:47 +0100
Hi there
There is a great deal of further information available for some cemeteries,
which could possibly help with not only the identification of the person but
also gives other names.
I was recently trying to find relatives buried in Cathays Cemetery, I
wrote
to the Bereavement Services Division requesting information. I received the
reply that for a certain amount of money they could supply the names, dates,
burial, who buried the person and importantly who paid for the burial, etc.
It gave me the names of relatives, some of whom I had not 'caught up with.'
It was a great deal of help. Cathays will give a print out of burials for a
certain name - I can't remember whether i had to pay for this. But when it
came, there was a list of say Thomas' buried in the cemetery and along side
each name the age at death and the grave number where buried.
There then followed a rather macabre game of matching the grave numbers and
finding out who was buried where. I certainly found the graves of several
infants about whom I had not known as they had not appeared on a census. It
also matched up husbands, wives and children!!
Not being flippant about it but it really was an interesting exercise;
I don't know how many cemeteries offer this service but it is certainly well
worth trying
Regards
Jenny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pauline" <pauline(a)omninet.net.au>
To: <MONMOUTHSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: 30 April 2005 10:03
Subject: Re: [Mon] Shared Graves Question
Hi All
In my grandparents grave there are 4 of them. There were my grandparents
plus their daughter who died at 22 months(1942) plus my grandmothers
brother(died 1940). If it wasn't for the surname then I wouldn't have had
a
clue who it was. But dad said that because Robert's
(grandmothers
brother)wife couldn't afford to bury him nan then paid for him to get
buried
in a plot which they then claimed for their own. So I believe it may
have
been a relative or a very, very close friend who couldn't afford to bury
them.
Pauline
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynda Ahmad" <lynda(a)ahmad1.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <MONMOUTHSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Mon] Shared Graves Question
> Hello Mark,
>
> I have a vague feeling I heard somewhere that sometimes stillborn or
very
> young babies were not given a separate burial, but buried with
someone
> else
> (related or not). I am not sure of this, so perhaps someone with more
> knowledge could confirm or deny this.
>
> Best wishes,
> Lynda
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Breeze" <apiltree(a)apiltree.screaming.net>
> To: <MONMOUTHSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 11:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mon] Shared Graves Question
>
>
>> Hi Barbara & List
>>
>> Thank you for the rapid responses - yes, I agree, our ancestors and
their
> kith & kin had, by and large, much harder lives than ours -
I have to
go
> into "detached-mode" when reading through historical
death records.
And
> yes, when we think about the horrors of the past, we should give
geography
> a
> moments thought too - the 'past' is still with us i some parts of the
> globe.
>>
>> I think that 5 years is too short for totally unrelated burial -
please
> feel free to contradict me (giving reasons!). Unless, of course,
there
was
> a
> paupers' corner at CG? If so - please let me know where, so I can
> consider
> it. (If anyone knows where there is a cemetery plan I'd love to know
> too).
>>
>> Best Wishes
>>
>> Mark Breeze
>> mark(a)apiltree.screaming.net
>>
>
>
>
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