I have just obtained details of a relatively recent burial from the Plymouth & West Devon Collection available on findmypast. It is the burial of William Godsland on 29 Feb 1980 in the burial registers of St Budeaux, Devonport. However, it appears the burial actually occurred in Weston Mill Cemetery. Many of the entries on the page I have from the register have annotations added in tiny writing underneath the name of the person. In the case of this entry it has "W.M. Cemy". A couple of other entries have "W.M.Crem" which I take to mean they were cremated at Weston Mill Crematorium. A couple of other entries have "H.2." and "H.3." which I take to be plot numbers of people actually buried at St Budeaux. It seems rather bizarre that this has been done because I would assume that Weston Mill Cemetery has its own burial regisers which should contain details of all the people who were buried or cremated there! Regards, Peter Armstrong email: godsland@one-name.org Godsland One Name Study Researching GODSLAND, GOSLAND, GOSSLAND & similar variants World Wide Website: http://www.godsland.co.uk Member No.1987 of the Guild of One Name Studies Guild Website http://www.one-name.org/

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 -----Original Message----- From: Peter Armstrong Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 11:13 PM To: DEVON@rootsweb.com Subject: [DEV] St Budeaux, Devonport I have just obtained details of a relatively recent burial from the Plymouth & West Devon Collection available on findmypast. It is the burial of William Godsland on 29 Feb 1980 in the burial registers of St Budeaux, Devonport. However, it appears the burial actually occurred in Weston Mill Cemetery. Many of the entries on the page I have from the register have annotations added in tiny writing underneath the name of the person. In the case of this entry it has "W.M. Cemy". A couple of other entries have "W.M.Crem" which I take to mean they were cremated at Weston Mill Crematorium. A couple of other entries have "H.2." and "H.3." which I take to be plot numbers of people actually buried at St Budeaux. It seems rather bizarre that this has been done because I would assume that Weston Mill Cemetery has its own burial regisers which should contain details of all the people who were buried or cremated there! Regards, Peter Armstrong email: godsland@one-name.org Godsland One Name Study Researching GODSLAND, GOSLAND, GOSSLAND & similar variants World Wide Website: http://www.godsland.co.uk Member No.1987 of the Guild of One Name Studies Guild Website http://www.one-name.org/ ------------------------------------------ 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