The database does make it easier for the Town Council to search their records (which are in multiple books) and for them to more easily answer queries from family historians. The Council has given us access to their records and has been very supportive of the project, but it has taken many years to complete. We've added a survey of the surviving MIs to the Burial and Plot Records maintained by the Council and the whole database gives an overview of the Cemetery. See www.wsmfhs.org.uk for more details and how to obtain a copy. It's under "News" and "Society News" As all churchyards in Weston were closed to new burials when the Milton Road Cemetery opened it has been the resting place for the majority of Weston's residents from 1856 until it outgrew the space available and the new Crematorium and Cemetery at Ebdon Road was opened in the 1970s (I'm not 100% sure of that opening date) For more details about the Cemetery see http://www.weston-super-maretowncouncil.gov.uk/milton-road-cemetery/friends-of-the-cemetery.aspx Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charani" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [B&D] PRICE (c1890-c1980) > Pat Hase wrote: > >> The Weston-super-Mare FHS had published a CD with 17,000 burials and MIs >> in >> Weston Cemetery from its opening in 1856. > > This is the CD you were talking about at the Bunfight that you've (WsM > FHS) given a copy of to the council so they are as well informed about > the cemetery as the FHS? :)) > > -- > Charani (UK) > OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM > Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM > http://wsom-opc.org.uk > http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I've just come across these marriages 3 March 1799 at St Peter's Bristol Thomas DAVIS to Martha SAGE 21 Feb 1803 at Stanton Drew Thomas DAVIES to Martha SAGE botp by banns - witnesses William BRODRIBB & Francis FOWLER (BRODRIBB is a common signature as witness) There's baptism at Stanton Drew 27 Oct 1800 of Frances DAVIES d/o Thomas & Martha Frances DAVIES, presumably their daughter, went on to marry James WILLIAMS a brother of my 3 x great grandmother and I'm now curious about why her parents appear to have married twice I can't seem to see any other baptisms of children. Thanks Pat