Hi Dave & List Today I ventured to several Southampton cemteries...the Old one on the common just has to take the biscuit...it's even wilder than last year...if anyone wants photo's of 'the norm' up there, let me know off list, then you'll realise just how bizarre it is. S.Stoneham has it's own way of numbering...new to me & Hollybrook just has to be my favourite...so simple & beautiful too...was it Michelle who asked about transcribed records? Contact bereavement services, Bugle St, Southampton, they'll answer your questions best wishes, Debbie >-- Original Message -- >Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 15:39:36 +0100 >From: Dave Jacobs <Dave@Jacobs.net> >To: ENG-SOUTHAMPTON-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [ENG-SOU] Re: Millbrook Cemetery > > >Hi Dorothy and all > >Wandering around cemeteries hoping to stumble across the remains of your > >ancestors is not the recommended way to do your family history, I fear. >What you should really do is contact Southampton Bereavement Services, and > >get the exact cemetery and plot reference from them. >Then, armed with a machete, you go into the cemetery and try to find the >grave. > >By the way, I have a feeling that the earlier Millbrook cemetery that was > >mentioned as now being completely built over, was actually the graveyard >of >the earlier Millbrook parish church of St Nicholas, also long since >demolished. The present parish church, Holy Trinity Millbrook, has its own > >graveyard, and the council cemetery called Millbrook Cemetery created in > >1909 is an extension behind the churchyard. > >Cheers, Dave Jacobs >=============== > >At 10:39 29/05/2004, Dorothy Morrissey wrote: >>Hi Dave >> >>If, while avoiding drunks and rats in Millbrook >>Cemetery, you happen to stumble on any Gilleys or >>Lanhams or Shorts, please let me know! Watch your >>footing! >> >>Cheers >> >>Dorothy >> >>Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. >>http://au.movies.yahoo.com > > > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >