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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Kent => England => Kent Lookup Requests => Topic started by: andmar on Friday 15 April 11 15:26 BST (UK)
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Does anyone have access to the Dartford Cemeteries register. I would like to find the burial place of my brother who died at the age of just one year. His name was DANIEL AYRES and his death was registered in the Dartford registration district in 1936. Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Andy.
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Have you seen this on the Kent resources page?
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,342102.0.html
You can also pay £10 and download the info here.
http://webserv.dartford.gov.uk/mandoforms/servlet/com.mandoforms.server.MandoformsServer?MF_XML=CEMETRY&MF_DEVICE=HTML
Carol
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Hmmm, I'm not quite sure why they are charging £10 for most of which can be viewed online for free at http://www.rootschat.com/links/04ty/
Hope this doesn't mean that the "Way of Death" project is going to be removed :-\
If it was Dartford/Stone/Swanscombe then it should be online Andy but if it is another area of the Dartford district ie. Bexley which now comes under Greater London then you will probably need to contact the appropriate local council office.
Casalguidi :)
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I tried for 15 minutes to make sense of that website but failed.None of them are in order.After ploughing through 11 pages of 1935 and up to the end of April 1936,they suddenly change to 1937 ???
There must be some logic there somewhere,but it's escaping me at the mo!
Carol
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I've not noticed that before Carol though I have only looked for odd ones in odd quarters etc..
I scrolled down to the relevant indexes for Dartford, Stone and Swanscombe but couldn't see him in 1936. The only AYRES/AYERS I saw in 1936 was a Mary age 22 unless I missed it.
Casalguidi :)
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Andy- do you have an exact date of his death?
I notice from the indexes that it was in the June 1/4 (ie April May or June)
Carol
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No , afraid not Carol. I will have to send for the Cert.
I tried using that website but couldn't get very far at all.
Thanks to all for the replies, Andy.
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Andy, do you know where your family were likely to have been living at this time?
Casalguidi :)
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They were travellers at the time and they would very likely have been on the large gypsy camp on Romney Marsh.(I think it was Romney)
Andy.
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Belvedere Marsh? Nowhere near Romney but there was a large Gypsy camp there! If so, try Bexley Council who hold the records for their cemteries http://www.bexley.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=3608
Casalguidi :)
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Yes, that sounds more likely. I knew there was a marsh involved but I am just going by the snippets of conversation that we picked up as kids. I will phone them Monday.
Thank you for your time and effort, Andy
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Isn't local knowledge a wonderful thing! That's what's so great about Rootschat ;)
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Not sure if this is the correct way to address this post, but most of the families who lived on Belvedere Marshes were buried in Brook Street Cemetery, Erith, which is really between Northumberland Heath & Nuxley Village, ( Upper Belvedere as was!).
There are Ayres there, just cant remember which.
Again, dont know how to go about this, but have drawn a blank on looking for my 3x great grandfather Richard Lee's parents. He was born in Minster (Sheppey) 1817. I have tried to join Sittingbourne Historical soc to access Births etc, but keep getting access codes that dont work. If you could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it, as I know you have Lees as an interest.
regards,
Adrian Lane.
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Hi Adrian,
thanks for the pointer to Erith cemetery I will try them on Monday.
Sory but I don't have the Lee family as an interest, I think you are confusing me with someone else.
Have you tried the Travelling People page.
Andy