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    1. Re: [GLA] Request
    2. Gareth Morgan
    3. Hello David It all depends on who you talk to when you visit. There used to be an office there with the records (probably closed by now). However if there is a gravedigger around I find it always pays to have a word with them. They can usually put you on the right track. Another important factor regarding graves are the ownsership of them. The council normally has an address of the person who bought the grave as well as who is intered in the grave and when. Gareth I will echo what Evelyn has said about gravestones/headstones and all other details but it is not so simple. There are two distinct cemeteries within the Treorchy complex. The 'new' cemetery is the 'lawn' type. Most of those burials will have some form of identification. In the 'old' cemetry there are large gravestones, many of which have collapsed in to the ground, or are now laying quite flat, or there are 'flat' graves with just an urn with a name. With the large headstones it took me much time to find just one stone and I had a head start since my mum knew the approximate location. But there are hundreds of these in each plot and on quite steep slopes - the cemetry is built on the mountain-side. My family have all these types plus one great-great grand-mother (IIRC) who did not wish for any headstone at all - her grand-daughter, as my mum relates spent many hours trying to locate the burial to no avail.

    05/28/2011 06:55:40