On 28 Sep 2009 at 9:27, Evelyn Smith wrote: > Dear Listers, > Could someone suggest to me the cemetery an ancestor would have been > buried in whose death was registered in 1879 in Ryde. This is, I hope, > the death of my 3 x great grandmother, Ann LOCK. A record which I > have searched for for many years and only now found with the > assistance of a helpful person on this list. > An English death certificate will not give me this information. Can > anyone suggest any further information at the Record Office or > elsewhere which could be helpful in adding to my knowledge of this > woman. Other than the births of her many children, I have only found > her (as with so many women of her time) on census records. > Try entering "Cemeteries in Ryde Isle of Wight" into Google. I doubt there are that many. You are right in that our death certificates are notoriously unhelpful. Indeed, they are the least useful of all English genealogical records. The Society of Genealogists, on whose Board of Trustees I have the privilege of serving, has long argued that death certificates could list the place of burial. Will it ever happen? Watch this space, but I doubt it! -- Roy Stockdill Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

Try a name serch at http://www.rydecemetery.org.uk/ Chris History of the villages of Dorset, Hampshire and Isle of Wight http://southernlife.org.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say."~ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> To: <isle-of-wight@rootsweb.com>; "Evelyn Smith" <kesmith1@tpg.com.au> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 12:38 AM Subject: Re: [IoW] Burial Place on the IOW > On 28 Sep 2009 at 9:27, Evelyn Smith wrote: > >> Dear Listers, > >> Could someone suggest to me the cemetery an ancestor would have been >> buried in whose death was registered in 1879 in Ryde. This is, I hope, >> the death of my 3 x great grandmother, Ann LOCK. A record which I >> have searched for for many years and only now found with the >> assistance of a helpful person on this list. > >> An English death certificate will not give me this information. Can >> anyone suggest any further information at the Record Office or >> elsewhere which could be helpful in adding to my knowledge of this >> woman. Other than the births of her many children, I have only found >> her (as with so many women of her time) on census records. > > > Try entering "Cemeteries in Ryde Isle of Wight" into Google. I doubt there > are that > many. > > You are right in that our death certificates are notoriously unhelpful. > Indeed, they are > the least useful of all English genealogical records. The Society of > Genealogists, on > whose Board of Trustees I have the privilege of serving, has long argued > that death > certificates could list the place of burial. Will it ever happen? Watch > this space, but I > doubt it! > > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: > www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > ************************************** > You can contact the Isle of Wight List Administrator by emailing: > Isle-of-Wight-Admin@rootsweb.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ISLE-OF-WIGHT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi list Many thanks for posting this link http://www.rydecemetery.org.uk/ Regards Ann Spiro Perth, Western Australia research@sbse.net.au http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blacksmiths/ I have the surname BASKETT registered with GOONS http://www.one-name.org/ The gene pool could use a little chlorine.?