Hi,I have always been curious as to how people find WHERE someone is buried. In my research experience for ancestors, the parish register notes the burial service but that churchyard is not necessarily the place of burial. And I can't find in LDS any PR's for Suffolk. Peter, your remark about Robert Friston being buried at St. Mary Magdalene in Woolwich caught my eye - Please help me by revealing how you came to this conclusion. I'm very interested in finding burials. I did search Robert in findagrave.com but a listing for him is not yet there in the churchyard of St. MM, let alone a photo of a headstone (no photos at all for that burial ground, although several requests are there. An opportunity if anyone on the list lives nearby!) THANK YOU for your information.Pam
Hi Pam The burial for Robert FRISTON 7th Oct 1853 is on Ancestry under the London records, with the image of the PR Its at St Mary Magdalene Woolwich I doubt if he ever had a headstone, or if he did it may not have survived to the present day For burials in general, those in PRs in cities up to about 1850 or so will be in the graveyard of that church, and some after that if they paid for a plot In the country or more rural locations, the same is true up to around 1890/1900 although it does vary With burials in the PRs where the burial was elsewhere, its sometimes noted, but the minister may give a clue Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 25/05/2019 15:18, Pam Spooner via SUFFOLK wrote: > Hi,I have always been curious as to how people find WHERE someone is buried. In my research experience for ancestors, the parish register notes the burial service but that churchyard is not necessarily the place of burial. And I can't find in LDS any PR's for Suffolk. > > Peter, your remark about Robert Friston being buried at St. Mary Magdalene in Woolwich caught my eye - Please help me by revealing how you came to this conclusion. I'm very interested in finding burials. I did search Robert in findagrave.com but a listing for him is not yet there in the churchyard of St. MM, let alone a photo of a headstone (no photos at all for that burial ground, although several requests are there. An opportunity if anyone on the list lives nearby!) > THANK YOU for your information.Pam