"Jon Green" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > Hi all, > > I'm posting this, with consent, on behalf of a frustrated colleague, who's > trying to track the burial place of a relative. > > (I don't have details of names or dates as yet - these questions are more > for eliciting pointers I can pass on to my colleague, and perhaps include > in the FAQs if they might be useful to others.) > > The lady in question joined the Catholic Church in order to marry her > husband, who later died some time in the 1930s in Wakefield, Yorkshire. > The lady lived on, dying in Buntingford, Hertfordshire, in the 1960s. > Searches in Herts (including with the assistance of councils) have failed > to find the lady's burial place. The assumption is that, having converted > to Catholicism, she was buried rather than cremated. > > So, questions for the wise heads here assembled: > > 1. In the 1960s, was it at all common for (Catholic) bodies to be > transported the kinds of distances from Herts to Yorks, in order to be > buried with a spouse (etc.)? > > 2. We know about DeceasedOnline, BillionGraves and the Ancestry and FMP > (etc.) parish records, and to look for burial intentions in wills and > historical newspaper articles. Do you know of any other useful sources of > interment information that might apply? > > Thanks in advance! > > Jon > -- > Maintainer, soc.genealogy.britain FAQs: www.genealogy-britain.org.uk > *** WATCH OUT FOR THE SPAM BLOCK! *** > Replace 'deadspam' with 'green-lines' to reply in email! Do you have the death certificate - it might offer a clue? However, having cremated my mother in 2007, I'm not sure I could now find where that happened - we didn't pay to put her name in the record book at the crematorium (another vast bill). My father, cremated in 1973, the same.

On 2015-01-27 05:42:46 +0000, Geoff Pearson said: > "Jon Green" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected] >> Hi all, >> >> I'm posting this, with consent, on behalf of a frustrated colleague, >> who's trying to track the burial place of a relative. >> >> (I don't have details of names or dates as yet - these questions are >> more for eliciting pointers I can pass on to my colleague, and perhaps >> include in the FAQs if they might be useful to others.) >> >> The lady in question joined the Catholic Church in order to marry her >> husband, who later died some time in the 1930s in Wakefield, Yorkshire. >> The lady lived on, dying in Buntingford, Hertfordshire, in the 1960s. >> Searches in Herts (including with the assistance of councils) have >> failed to find the lady's burial place. The assumption is that, having >> converted to Catholicism, she was buried rather than cremated. >> >> So, questions for the wise heads here assembled: >> >> 1. In the 1960s, was it at all common for (Catholic) bodies to be >> transported the kinds of distances from Herts to Yorks, in order to be >> buried with a spouse (etc.)? >> >> 2. We know about DeceasedOnline, BillionGraves and the Ancestry and FMP >> (etc.) parish records, and to look for burial intentions in wills and >> historical newspaper articles. Do you know of any other useful sources >> of interment information that might apply? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> Jon >> -- >> Maintainer, soc.genealogy.britain FAQs: www.genealogy-britain.org.uk >> *** WATCH OUT FOR THE SPAM BLOCK! *** >> Replace 'deadspam' with 'green-lines' to reply in email! > > Do you have the death certificate - it might offer a clue? However, > having cremated my mother in 2007, I'm not sure I could now find where > that happened - we didn't pay to put her name in the record book at the > crematorium (another vast bill). My father, cremated in 1973, the same. The Cemeteries and Crematoria dept of the local council would be able to supply the info. The Crematorium Register is different from the Book of Remembrance. The former being the equivalent of the burials register for a cemetery and the latter a memorial which is optional just like a gravestone would be. Though certainly in England it varies from local council to local council, some want a fee to check their burial/cremation records and others will answer email enquiries within a very short time without charge. -- Tickettyboo