As the death is relatively recent, have you contacted the Maidstone Cemetery ? Maidstone Maidstone Borough Cemetery Sutton Road, Maidstone opened 1858 Maidstone Borough Council, 5-11 London Road, Maidstone, Kent ME16 8HR Tel: +44 (0)1622 602 000 website: www.maidstone.gov.uk The crematorium did not begin operating until 1962. http://www.kent-opc.org/Cemeteries.html Anne South Australia sylvia thomas wrote: > Hi Everyone, > Does anyone know anything about Paupers graves when the person being buried was > not a pauper. > My grandfather died 1954 at Maidsonte. I always knew both he and my grandmother > before him had one. I obtained his death cert. just in case it said anything. It > does not. So I will now send for his will, to see if it says anything. He was > not a pauper, far from it. He was a Master Baker and owned at least 2 houses > when he died. > My sister and I are wondering if their bodies were donated to science. Would the > bodies then be buried as paupers? There was no funeral, my father one brother > and sister were not informed by other sister until after the deaths in both > cases. > Could someone just opt for a paupers grave.? I would have thought if you could > afford it you would not expect someone else to pay, even without frills. > So if anyone has any thoughts on the subject I would like to hear. > Regards, Sylvia on a beautiful winter day in Aus. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KENT-ENG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >