Hi John The Church was St Peters Netherton and if I remenber right in was the month of November 1832 , I used to have Sunday dinner at the Saltwells pub Netherton and they have old pictures hanging around the place , and one of them was the notice you mentioned giving the  details , In the email you sent you mentioned another graveyard  for St Thomas Church , does anyone know where this was , has I have been trying to find where my gr? grandfather was buried  with no luck , but his funeral service was at St Thomas , but I cant find a plot number Cheers Cassy --- On Fri, 4/3/09, John Favill <[email protected]> wrote: From: John Favill <[email protected]> Subject: [Black Country] Church-yards at Dudley To: [email protected] Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 5:07 PM Hi All, In one of my return visits to England a few years ago, I purchased a used book "Life in Victorian England" by W.G. Reader published in 1963. It is only recently that I have found the book lurking in one of my too many bookcases and to my surprise in reading this very interesting book, several references are made to Wednesbury and two copies of Dudley notices are shown. The first is for J. Hanson (late Kirkham) Chimney Sweep of Tower Street, Dudley claiming Small Boys, and clean cloths, upon the most reasonable terms, with no date. The second was issued by the Dudley Board of Health most probably in 1849. The notice is headed with the word CHOLERA above Dudley Board of Health and below this is shown the heading "Church-yards at Dudley." Then the notice reads:- " Being so full, no one who has died of CHOLERA will be permitted to be buried after SUNDAY next, (To-morrow) in either of the Burial Grounds of St. Thomas's, or St. Edmunds's, in this town." Then further below in smaller font reads the instruction. "All Persons who die from CHOLERA, must for the future be buried in the Church-yard at Netherton." Unfortunately there is no date given to identify which SUNDAY. Has anyone information that would add to this interesting notice. For instance, how long did this edict remain the practice, when did burials at St. Edmunds and St. Thomas's resume after the development of clean water services and the disappearance of Cholera, or did Netherton Church remain the "overflow" burial place for the two churches? John ------------------------------------- The only List that specifically covers the whole of the Black Country. Run by Black Country folk who were born and still live in the area. ------------------------------- 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