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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Lancashire Lookup Requests => Lancashire => England => Lancashire Completed Lookup Requests => Topic started by: hugatree on Wednesday 03 April 13 16:27 BST (UK)
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A close family friend has recently died who has no living relatives. We have been unable to trace if, when her mother Ellen Catterall Eccles passed away in 1983 in Blackpool, any cemetery plot was purchased in which to inter Ellen's remains or ashes. We feel that her daughter should be there with her if such a plot exists. Please, as a matter of urgency, is anyone able to check records as recent as 1983 for Ellen Catterall Eccles final resting place? We live the other end of the country so it's not possible to get to the area to instigate a search and I've drawn a blank on-line.
Thank you for reading this.
Best wishes
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Ellens death was registered in the Sefton RD in the September qtr 1983 - she was 89. This RD did not cover Blackpool so Ellen could not have died in Blackpool
Sefton RD covered a number of areas but any burial/cremation could have been at Thornton or Southport or at Ford if the family were RC religion
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/sefton.html
If her daughter is to be cremated - her ashes can be held by the undertaker or other guardian until such time as details of her mothers death are established which will give you some breathing space
Do you know Ellen's exact date of death?
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Sefton is Merseyside -
added...apologies ...just thought ...she may have died in Blackpool ( Nursing Home etc ) but may have had her death registered in Sefton ....by a relative / next of kin ??...I can only presume she was buried or cremated in the Sefton area
allan
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Thanks for your very prompt reply Allan, just a coincidence I think (hope) but the solicitor has just phoned to confirm the will states her ashes are to be scattered in a garden of remembrance, so this is now a very redundant query!
Thank you once again for your help
Kind regards
Natalie
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OK...was she born Ellen Catterall Shorrock dec qtr 1893 ?
married Mark Eccles sep qtr 1920 ...both events in Blackburn ....
so your family friends dad, Mark Eccles death is registered dec qtr 1944 aged 59 in Fylde ...so he is in Blackpool ...just being nosey - is the Garden of Rememberance in Blackpool ?
allan