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Title: Stockport Burial 1930's
Post by: np-sheffield on Tuesday 06 January 09 06:26 GMT (UK)

Hi all,

I'm trying to discover the final resting place of my g.Grandfather John William Packham who died in 1933 in Stockport.  Would anyone know where to look?

Cheers in advance

Neil Parkin

Title: Re: Stockport Burial 1930's
Post by: BumbleB on Tuesday 06 January 09 08:52 GMT (UK)

Hi Neil:  try the Stockport Council website, there is a phone number there for Stockport Cemetery and Crematorium - and by the way, Stockport is in Cheshire, not Lancashire!!

I just googled Stockport Cemetery and found the site.  There are 5 cemeteries listed under the council, some of them in the outlying districts.  Whilst I've not had dealings with Stockport in particular, I've found that the personnel in these departments are usually very helpful.

BumbleB

Title: Re: Stockport Burial 1930's
Post by: Frithy on Monday 02 March 09 16:34 GMT (UK)

Quote from: np-sheffield on Tuesday 06 January 09 06:26 GMT (UK)

Hi all,

I'm trying to discover the final resting place of my g.Grandfather John William Packham who died in 1933 in Stockport.  Would anyone know where to look?

Cheers in advance

Neil Parkin

Do you have an address for the death in Stockport Cheshire.?

Title: Re: Stockport Burial 1930's
Post by: np-sheffield on Monday 02 March 09 19:09 GMT (UK)

Hello Frithy!

John William abandoned his family (wife and 13 surviving children) in the mid 1920's supposedly with a mistress. We found he lived for the last few years of his life and then died in 130 Wellington Rd North in 1933, a boarding house.  We subsequently have discovered that he married the owner, one Ellen Taylor, believed to come from Runcorn.  They were married one month before John William died from cancer, so he must have known his time was up, and made an honest woman of her (a spinster at 65!).

Anyway, we expected that he would have been buried in Stockport, but no.  We have discovered that his body was brought back to Sheffield and buried in the family plot along with two of their children who died in infancy and his first wife Annie. Annie had died by commiting suicide in 1930. (sad story).

Anyway, his resting place is in Sheffield in the family plot which we have now located and a bunch of the cousins are heading there this weekend for the first time to do a bit of maintenance and pay our respects.

What was your interest by the way?

Neil

Title: Re: Stockport Burial 1930's
Post by: Frithy on Monday 02 March 09 20:37 GMT (UK)

My interest was just STOCKPORT.
Glad you found him.