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Title: Have death certificate - where burried?
Post by: Lentilsoup on Tuesday 05 June 12 19:08 BST (UK)

Simple question  :o.  I have some death certificates but have been unable to find the burial place.
Could someone please let me know the best way of going about this?  For one I have tried the parish church but not there 1900.  The other is more recent (1940s) and could have been cremation so where are those records held?  I will try local parish records but don't suppose many will have been deposited yet.  Many thanks for any help.

Title: Re: Have death certificate - where burried?
Post by: weste on Tuesday 05 June 12 19:23 BST (UK)

Try their local crem with the death details or as should hopefully have the national burial index. I had trouble with 2 reasonally common names .  I'd already got one wrong cert, ruled another out by a cemetry cd of the churchyard.  I've recently found their death details in the will and probates on ancestry and am going to try again. Mine could be crem or cem. You could try the local authority that deals with cemetries.  It might be worth you putting some details of the people and may be people may be able to help you with cemetries etc.  There are some cd's with memorial transcriptions and some with church burial records which cover different places.

Title: Re: Have death certificate - where burried?
Post by: groom on Tuesday 05 June 12 19:50 BST (UK)

Hi

I agree with weste, especially for the later one try the local authority where they lived, most have a department dealing with bereavement services, or contact the local crematorium. I have always found them very helpful.

If you put names and dates on here there may be someone who has access to information.

Title: Re: Have death certificate - where burried?
Post by: copperbeech5 on Tuesday 05 June 12 20:49 BST (UK)

Hi,

The other method is, assuming you can be precise about the death date, it to troll through the Library local to the  place of death to see if there was a death announcement, or a report on the funeral in the local paper at the time.

Newspaper archives are a wonderful source of information!

I have found this very effective, and often you also pick up other leads  of people as well!

best wishes,
Copperbeech5

Title: Re: Have death certificate - where burried?
Post by: Lentilsoup on Thursday 07 June 12 10:42 BST (UK)

Thank you - will post details.  Should I post here on under the relevant county?

Title: Re: Have death certificate - where burried?
Post by: groom on Thursday 07 June 12 11:43 BST (UK)

I'd do it under the relevant county as there is more chance of someone who has access to records or local knowledge seeing it.

Jan

Title: Re: Have death certificate - where burried?
Post by: Mark1973 on Friday 08 June 12 15:31 BST (UK)

This site has a load of burial & cremation records, they're adding more still.

https://www.deceasedonline.com