Quite right, Dave - I stand corrected! Sara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Jacobs" <Dave@Jacobs.net> To: <ENG-SOUTHAMPTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-SOU] Re: Millbrook Cemetery/St Nicholas Church > Hi Sara and all > > Good story, thanks for this. > > You asked: > << In those circumstances, I wonder if the Southampton > Bereavement Services would have a record of the moved gravestones? I should > imagine they would only have records of actual interments there? >> > > It is worth pointing out the salient legal situation here! > > What we have most recently been talking about are the CHURCHYARDS belonging > to St Nicholas and Holy Trinity churches in Millbrook. These, and all > other churchyards associated with churches, are nothing to do with > Southampton Council. All churchyards and their registers are owned and > managed by ecclesiastical authorities. They alone are responsible for > recording where particular graves and memorials are, and generally speaking > they do a very poor job. The local sexton will hopefully know his > graveyard, but sextons' records from the past are few and far between. > > CEMETERIES on the other hand are the property and responsibility of Local > Authorities, which are secular bodies. By various Acts of Parliament the > local authority managing a cemetery has to keep a plan of the cemetery, > showing where all the graves are, and are obliged to reveal this > information to any interested party. This is what Southampton Bereavement > Services do for all Southampton Cemeteries. They have no information about > any churchyards though; for these you have to go to Southampton Archives > Dept., or Hampshire Record Office, which is also the Diocese of Winchester > Record Office. > > Southampton Cemeteries are: > 1846 Common/Old Cemetery/Hill Lane > 1879 St Mary Extra (at Woolston) > 1905 South Stoneham > 1909 Millbrook > 1913 Hollybrook > 1932 Southampton Crematorium, originally at South Stoneham, now in Basset > Green Road > > As most local churchyards closed during the late 19th C, most people who > died in Southampton would have ended in one of these places. > > Cheers, Dave Jacobs > ===============