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Wales (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Wales => Glamorganshire => Topic started by: janeeidden on Sunday 23 September 12 23:32 BST (UK)
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Mary Thomas was born 11 dec 1842 Llantrisant. She died a widow 19 Jan 1931,aged 88 years, at Partridge road ,Cardiff. The nespaper notice in BMD says that it was to be a private funeral.Family records show that the date for this was 22 jan 1931. She was separated from her husband and is not buried in his grave at Trealaw. Cardiff bereavement dept can not find a record of her and suggest that she may have been buried at a chapel.
If anyone should come accross her during the course of other investigations could they please contact me.
There is a slight posibility that she could have been buried in Bedwelty parish, but again the authorities cannot find her here either.
Thank you
Jane
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Hi
When they did a search for you at cardiff was it only for burial? Could she have been creamated?
cheers cardiff ???
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Hi janeeidden,
It can be very frustrating looking for burials in that timescale, as I know from personal experience.
Cremations were still fairly rare in the 1930's, - this quote is taken from
'The History of Cremation', Site:
'Growing popularity in the 1950s
A Parliamentary Bill to put the practice of cremation into law was thrown out in 1884 amid government fears it would upset voters. although the first cremation at Woking, that of Jeannette Pickersgill, went ahead in March 1885.
It was not until 1902 that Parliament gave the Home Secretary power to regulate cremation. By this time a number of crematoria had been built in cities including Manchester, Glasgow, Hull and Liverpool and, in the same year the Act was passed, Golders Green crematorium opened in North London.
Even by 1930, when the new Cremation Regulations were issued, still in force with minor changes today, less than five per cent of funerals ended in cremation.
The popularity of cremation increased steadily throughout the 1950s. In the first two years of the 1960s, 30 crematoria were opened.
In 1963 the Pope allowed Catholics to be cremated and today in the UK only a few religious groups forbid cremation, including Muslims, Orthodox Jews and the Greek and Russian Orthodox churches'.
Romilly.
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This is in Pontypridd not far away 11.8 miles
Glyntaff Crematorium was opened in 1924, the sixteenth to open in Great Britian, but, for almost thirty years, the only Crematorium serving the whole of Wales.
cheers cardiff :)
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thanks. I have not considered cremation ,but from what I know of her it is not very likely. She lost a couple of children in infancy, so it is most likely that she is near to them and her mother. However I cannot find her mothers death. she was also Mary Thomass and was a house keeper to James Thomas,mine owner.She died sometime between 1881 and 1891.With a name of Thomas and not even a year of death, I just have to hope that I stumble on it by chance.
Jane
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You say she was born llantrisant do you have her birth certificate? because the district of llantrisant is a large are? So she was Thomas who married a Thomas?