The death certificate had to be issued somewhere. That's where I'd start my search. -----Original Message----- From: jjowen@sympatico.ca Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 1:22 AM To: devon@rootsweb.com Cc: devon@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DEV] Cemetery Records Hi Jean, I found your comments to be most informative. Unfortunately, unless we know where our ancestors were buried, very little information is provided on the death certificates. The ones I have been able to purchase only show basic information and certainly no interment details. So, is this information available somewhere? Regards .. Joyce Sent from my iPad > On Dec 1, 2013, at 8:07 PM, "Jean Harris" <j.egerton@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > > Adding to this topic by Terry Blackmore and others, here is a word about > the Cemetery records. I have found these are well worth while exploring as > there is more to be found in them than in the church burial registers. > This of course will relate to the late 1800s when the churchyards could > not cope any longer and the Cemetery Act was passed to deal with this > problem. > > Some years ago when I visited the Torquay Cemetery to see the grave of my > grandparents, I saw that the stone recorded the name of their eldest > daughter as being there with them. However, it was not until I went to > their office to see the actual record that I found that their eldest son > is also interred in the same grave. He is not recorded on their stone and > I have no idea as to why his name does not appear there with those of his > parents and his sister but there it is. > > Additionally I found that the Cemetery Records have the name of those > persons who paid for the grave, digging etc and as this is usually a > relative (plus their home address) that is another item not to be found in > the Church records. Then (if you really want to know!) it also has the > name of the funeral directors who handled all the arrangements for the > burials. All in all makes this makes the Cemetery records well worth > exploring for all of that additional info. > > Jean Harris in Toronto > > > > > >> On Nov 29, 2013, at 7:18 PM, <Terryblackmore@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >> >> Parish Burial Registers belong to the Church and the cemetery's belong >> to the local council. So the cemetery will have records of who is buried >> there, where and when. The Church just the record of when he was buried >> and maybe the death date. Both can be assessed, though not sure if any >> local councils put cemetery records on line. One might have to get the >> records from the cemetery. I did for a return visit to my father's burial >> plot. It was no where near where I thought it was. The cemetery having >> changed so much since I was at his funeral. Now a days of course there >> are death certificates that copies can be applied for from the local >> Registrar of BMDs. >> >> Terry Blackmore >> OPC, Sheldon, Devon >> >> >> ------------------------------------------ >> The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon >> ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) >> and >> the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) >> List archive for Devon can be found at >> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> ------------------------------------------ >> The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon >> ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) >> and >> the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) >> List archive for Devon can be found at >> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message