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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Lancashire => Topic started by: Manx Hatter on Friday 17 June 11 16:11 BST (UK)
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I'm fairly new to this site, so please forgive me if I appear to be asking a rather simplistic question.
My Maternal Grandparents are buried in Phillips Park Cemetry (HOLLAND - with no idea of forenames) and I would like to find and photograph their gravestone, I do know that their graves are alongside an aunt and uncle (Leonard and Hilda HOLLAND). I only live in Cheshire, so its not a long trip; but is there any information (listings?) that will make my search easier when I get there - I believe there are quite a few gravestones to look at.
Thanks for any help or sign-posting that anyone can give.
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Hi,
Welcome to Rootschat,
Manchester burials website is free and easy to search for relatives/ancestors who maybe buried in Manchester owned Cemeteries.
If you find the Graves number and are unable to visit yourself, post on the board, there is a guy on here is visits pretty regular and does now his way around Phillip's Park and offers to photograph the gravestone if there is one.
http://www.burialrecords.manchester.gov.uk/
Good Luck,
Cancan :)
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If you can come up with any grave numbers. I am going Sunday morning "Fathers day stuff"
Just list them here and I will check for you.
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I can't see a Leonard Holland buried at Philips' Park. There are a couple of Hilda's but neither have any other Holland family members buried with them. Where did you get the information they were buried there? Do you have any idea of dates?
03/02/1905 Hilda Holland Philips Park Cemetery DConsecrated 709
10/10/1977 Hilda Holland Philips Park Cemetery PConsecrated 518
30/07/2010 Mrs Hilda Holland Blackley Crematorium
Milly
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What a fantastically friendly and helpful lot you all are on this site (and I've seen the evidence on other threads as well), oh that all people in lkife were such.
Milly: Yes, I found those Hildas as well (thanks to Mancsmans link) - I think she might have died in the 70s, so 77 is plausible, but I'm surprised there is no Leonard.
The information I had came from a long lost cousin (Leonard and Hilda's daughter) with whom I had contact with when an aunty died. I asked her if she knew my (and her) grandfathers and grandmothers names (my mother at the time was suffering from Alzheimers, and didn't even know who she was, never mind me or her own parents) - and she told me they were buried in Phillips Park Cemetry and her parents were alongside. That does not seem to be panning out at the moment and I'm beginning to doubt my own existence.
Since my earlier posting, I've been looking at some old family photographs and think my gtrandfathers name was John, and he died late fifties (I was very young at the time, but rememberit) - but that hasn't helped me in the slightest either.
Ah well, back to the drawing board. I have been resarching Family History on and off for some ten years or so, and have been quite successful on my fathers side tracing the family back to the 1500s in the Isle of Man (hence the pseudonym I'm using).
Dave
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Hi Dave
This may or may not help :)
The lady who died in 1977 was 50 years old, divorced and lived in Harpurhey
Ring any bells :)
Ken
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This looks like the death reg for Hilda buried 10 Oct 1977
Oct-Nov-Dec 1977 Manchester 38 0674
Date of Birth: 27 October 1926
So she would have been just under 51 years old when she died. Does that sound about right? (It fits with the 50 year old Ken mentions)
Milly
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Just noticed you said divorced, Ken.
It may mean she might not have been buried with her husband after all
Am I right in thinking you can't search the website under burial plot details?
Milly
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Am I right in thinking you can't search the website under burial plot details?
Name only and don't forget those original registers were sent to india to be transcribed so could be a error.
Ken
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I don't remember them being divorced, but Leonard did use to have funny turns and do disappearing acts (there is a history of dementia and Alzheimers on that side of my family).
The age and year is about right though.