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Title: Weymouth cemeteries (1923)?
Post by: davidga on Saturday 19 April 14 11:34 BST (UK)

Hello,

My great-grandmother Hannah Gray, was buried in a cemetery in Weymouth in December 1923. My mother and I found the grave in 1971.

According to the National Burial Index (transcribed by the Somerset & Dorset Family History Society) the cemetery was Melcombe Regis. In 2012 I searched Melcombe Regis cemetery (adjacent to Newstead Road and Longcroft Lane), but was unable to find the grave - indeed, the cemetery looked quite different from the one that I visited with my mother 41 years before!

I see that there is another cemetery adjoining Abbotsbury Road and Quibo Lane. Is that also known as Melcombe Regis cemetery? (Or was it in 1923?) Or might the transcription for the NBI be wrong?

Any help would be most welcome!

David

Title: Re: Weymouth cemeteries (1923)?
Post by: rosie99 on Saturday 19 April 14 12:54 BST (UK)

Have you tried contacting the FHS that transcribed it  :-\

http://www.sdfhs.org/about-us/contacting-us/

Rosie

Title: Re: Weymouth cemeteries (1923)?
Post by: jusnoneed on Saturday 19 April 14 14:11 BST (UK)

Hi, according to google there are four cemeteries in Weymouth, the one in Abbotsbury road is called Weymouth Cemetery.

Title: Re: Weymouth cemeteries (1923)?
Post by: Jolee on Thursday 15 May 14 19:04 BST (UK)

You most likely have the date she was buried - 22/12/1923, if you phone the cemeteries with her exact name and date of burial they may be able to help you as many now have all the burials on computer.