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grave index lookup for my grandparents
annie johnstone muir 1960 death
james william muir 1961
not sure if buried but i read somwhere cremations did not become common till lates 60's so possible
also ida blakeborough muir died 1936
regards
or point to source please :)
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It will be hard to find a burial not knowing which area they died in.
Regards Carolanne
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Hi
Finding a burial entry in a church register can be done in earlier 19th century registers but is hard as not knowing which district, parish, town or village hamlet. If your lucky MI's can be transcribed. By the 1900's (20th century) most parish registers were kept by the church archives with no transcription or film record (Few were)
By the 1960s the most likely will be grave records & location plot maps or cremation remembrance books but these where kept by each cemetery or crematorium administration but which!
You don't give any idea of location in West Yorkshire or if buried or cremated or even buried at sea.
Total impossible task! without more info.
The only Ida Muir 1936 was
Deaths Sep 1936
Muir Ida E aged 37 Knaresbro' 9a 116
Local Newspapers death entries may be the best starting point but again where! which hamlet, village, town or city
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A little detective works says Harrogate.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,467839.msg3280956.html#msg3280956
So we will looking Harrogate Newspapers
Cross your fingers but may be a while answering.
Dobby :)
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Write, Email or phone
Website: http://www.harrogateadvertiser.net/ Address:
Harrogate Herald
1 Cardale Park
Beckwith Head Road
HARROGATE
HG3 1RZ Tel: 01423 564321
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Stonefall Cemetery & Crematorium
http://www.harrogate.org.uk/info/3459/
Stonefall Cemetery Lodge, Wetherby Road, Follifoot, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG3 1DE
01423 883523
Goldsborough Cemetery
York Rd, Knaresborough, Yorkshire HG5 0AH
01423 883523
http://www.harrogate.gov.uk/pages/harrogate-1017.aspx
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james w muir
july aug 1961
registration district claro
yorkshire west riding
anne j muir
feb march 1960
registration district claro
yorkshire west riding
they lived in harrogate, so i assumed stonefall cemetary
as for ida elizabeth muir nee blakeborough she died in knaresborough the cemetary was just around the corner from where she lived, is there one called park cemetary? i did have its name from a news article from 1936 july aug sept
would this info help narrow the search, does the libray in harrogate have a good resources?
last time i treid to check it was closed for refurb
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Best contact the cemeteries admin's
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Hi Muir
I hope you are well?
If you can have a look at my info as well?
Not too sure if you might find something that might help me as well
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there is nothing that matches as yet, but I am having difficulty with my scotish links
as my ancesters, just say scotland as place of birth, we suspect the family may have lived in lasswade/springfield/roslyn area of midlothian but not confirmed yet.
the closest we have found is an ancestor called george muir who was a papermaker, we found a george muir paper maker 1841 census in lasswade who could fit the bill but is not a confirmed match and we do not know who his parents were or if he had brothers or sisters (we thaink he had one called lillias and maybe an older sister called jannet who married a watson)
i do not know if any of this links to you at all