Hello listers, I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than me will be able to help solve my query. I have a MARY IRVING URWIN (nee GRAYSON) who was born in South Shields. She lived in Birmingham with her husband, my great uncle WILFRED BARWICK URWIN, at least up to the time of his death there in 1923. Mary died on 21st January 1964 aged 86 years and there is a GRAYSON family headstone in Harton Cemetery, South Shields dedicated to her and other members of her original family. This headstone gives her full name and date of her death. With this knowledge I assumed that she had returned to Shields after her husband's death in Birmingham,but I now have photographic evidence that the headstone of her husband in Birmingham cemetery also states that she is also in the same grave as he in Birmingham showing the same date of her death as the Shields headstone. Any logical explanation would be most welcome. Regards to all, Ken Urwin, Middlesbrough.
Hi Ken, The headstone isn`t evidence of a burial. Quite often it will say in memory of. The only way of being sure where they are butied is from the burial books, which cover the church or cememtery. They could be buried seperate or together in either place. George Carter in Whaley Bridge. ________________________________ From: Ken Urwin <kenurwin@btinternet.com> To: ENG-DURHAM@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, 23 March, 2009 10:11:48 PM Subject: [ENG-DURHAM] Cemetery headstone mystery! Hello listers, I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than me will be able to help solve my query. I have a MARY IRVING URWIN (nee GRAYSON) who was born in South Shields. She lived in Birmingham with her husband, my great uncle WILFRED BARWICK URWIN, at least up to the time of his death there in 1923. Mary died on 21st January 1964 aged 86 years and there is a GRAYSON family headstone in Harton Cemetery, South Shields dedicated to her and other members of her original family. This headstone gives her full name and date of her death. With this knowledge I assumed that she had returned to Shields after her husband's death in Birmingham,but I now have photographic evidence that the headstone of her husband in Birmingham cemetery also states that she is also in the same grave as he in Birmingham showing the same date of her death as the Shields headstone. Any logical explanation would be most welcome. Regards to all, Ken Urwin, Middlesbrough. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-DURHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message