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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Lancashire => England => Lancashire Lookup Requests => Topic started by: LesleyAS on Friday 15 January 10 20:55 GMT (UK)
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Soe time ago someone kindly found the grave of my Catholic grandparents at Ford Cemetery. I sent for details and the details I got back were invaluable.
This was some time ago and now I have discovered through the 1911 census other relatives in the family both of whom died in the 1919 flu epidemic. This indicates that there is a second family grave but I dont know how to go about finding it.
There was Christopher O'Brien born 25/12/1910 died 22/02/1919 aged 8. He died in the Walton Institution Infirmary. His aunt who lived at 25 Elizabeth Road Orrell died 16/02/1919. I think Christopher lived at the same address as this is where I found him in the 1911 census. Finding the family grave would hopefully help fill in so many unanswered questions about the rest of my family.
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Orrell was and is in the parish of Wigan bordering on Liverpool, the register office being Wigan and Leigh, you could try these
http://www.wlct.org/culture/heritage/lhistory.htm
They will do a free look up.
St James is the catholic church there but I can only find records of burials upto 1900, unless someone else knows more.
The other option would be that he was buried at the hospital or close to it.