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20/6/2014 at 6:42pm
 Location: Wigan
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My dad's dad died a long time before I was born. My dad always regretted not being able to afford a head stone for his grave; he was not much more than a child at the time. My grandad is buried in the church yard near my childhood home where my mum and dad, my and my OH got married.
Dad died 28 years ago and I have recently decided I would love to do what he wanted to be able to do and erect a head stone, but one that commemorates my dad too. (He was cremated and there is no (visible) memorial to him.)

Can anyone tell me - is the church the best place to start when it comes to locating the grave?

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20/6/2014 at 6:46pm
 Location: Blackpool Lancashire
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I would have thought they should have a record of the graves location.

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20/6/2014 at 7:13pm
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I had exactly the same problem when I wanted to locate the grave of my Auntie who was only three when she died in 1901. I found out that all records of burials for our town are kept at one cemetery. I went there, gave her name and year of death and they came up with a grave number for her and the cemetery where she was buried.It turned out she was buried in a family grave with three other babies. They were her cousins who had died in preceding years at a very young age.Itwas sad finding her grave with no stone for her so I am planting a pink rose bush until I can afford a stone for her and the other babies.
With churchyard burials the church will most certainly have a register of persons buried there.

Going back to little Maggie, my auntie, I also sent for a death certificate. She died of acute laryngitis suddenly. So sad as today antibiotics would have saved her. She was an only child at the time and her parents were devastated so much so my granddad turned to drink and became an alcoholic.


20/6/2014 at 7:58pm
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The crem will have all records of there grounds.

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20/6/2014 at 11:11pm
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My mum wanted to be put in with her dad when she goes so contacted council who put me in with people who look after graves and we brought my grandads cost 60 pounds for a 100 year lease. This goes from when first burial.

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21/6/2014 at 12:28am
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Tracy

For these

  • Lower Ince Cemetery and Wigan Crematorium
  • Westwood Cemetery
  • Gidlow Cemetery
  • Atherton Cemetery
  • Tyldesley Cemetery
  • Howe Bridge Cemetery
  • Hindley Cemetery
  • Leigh Cemetery
  • Ince-in-Makerfield Cemetery

Many are all ready listed on the web for free  here

http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/stuff/

or for a payment Wigan council

http://www.wlct.org/wigan/services/bereavement-services/record-searches/

if at another Churchyard them get in touch with the Church.  Most Churches have a web page that you can contact them with.

 

 



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