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Title: How to find a cemetry
Post by: Maz R on Monday 09 July 18 13:25 BST (UK)
Hi i am looking for my great grandparents graves. 

They died in Ealing and Hounslow.

Any suggestions on how to start
Title: Re: How to find a cemetry
Post by: davidft on Monday 09 July 18 13:35 BST (UK)
You could start by trying the relevant Councils and asking if they have records of who is buried where which you can consult (there may be a fee).

Here is a link to Ealing Council Cemeteries section that may help to start with

https://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/201036/deaths/738/cemeteries

and Hounslow

https://www.hounslow.gov.uk/downloads/download/410/cemeteries

If they cannot help they should be able to tell you who can
Title: Re: How to find a cemetry
Post by: rosie99 on Monday 09 July 18 13:41 BST (UK)
Welcome to rootschat

The probate for the 1955 death which was registered in Ealing RD gives an address of .. Glenwood Road, Hounslow. 

Is it likely they were cremated  :-\
https://www.swmcrematorium.gov.uk/about-us/our-history/

ADDED It is possible that the reason the 1959 death was registered in Ealing reg distric is that he was in hospital when he died.
Title: Re: How to find a cemetry
Post by: Maz R on Monday 09 July 18 13:49 BST (UK)
Ok I will have a look that maybe the case.  I do not know much about them as my Gran was brought up by her aunt and saw them once a year.  She is now dead.
Title: Re: How to find a cemetry
Post by: rosie99 on Monday 09 July 18 14:18 BST (UK)
The father in law you mentioned before removing names possibly died March qtr 1960 also Ealing reg district.

Hounslow local studies may be able to help though I am not sure what records they would have.

https://www.hounslow.gov.uk/info/20136/other_library_services/1692/local_history_and_archives/2

Love your avatar  :)  Hope they are quieter than my horror. ::)
Title: Re: How to find a cemetry
Post by: Maz R on Monday 09 July 18 14:28 BST (UK)
I only removed names as first post and then saw something in red at the top about not asking about people so then edited and removed.  Lily has her mad and deaf moments like all spaniels 😀. Where did you find the 1960 death of Charles Pearce I have looked in ancestry? 
Title: Re: How to find a cemetry
Post by: [Ray] on Monday 09 July 18 14:42 BST (UK)
Hi Maz R

WELCOME to Rootschat!

www.FREEBMD.org.uk (http://www.FREEBMD.org.uk)
is (one of) the places to go.

Ray
Title: Re: How to find a cemetry
Post by: rosie99 on Monday 09 July 18 14:48 BST (UK)
It was on freebmd as suggested by Ray though the link does not seem to be working.  It has been slow for the last few days.
Deaths Mar qtr1960 
PEARCE    Charles    age 89   
Ealing    5e   245

It is alright to ask about people who are not living  :)

The Mod on this board has a good knowledge of  cemeteries in this area, hopefully she will spot this.  :)
Title: Re: How to find a cemetry
Post by: Maz R on Monday 09 July 18 15:04 BST (UK)
Ok thank for that in that case here is all the info

Adophus Dotrice 28 June 1955 Ealing born 29 June 1878 Guernsey he does play around with his first name using other options
and his wife Louisa Dotrice  (nee Pearce) Dec 1969 Hounslow

Her father may or may not be with them (Charles Pearce) all I know is he was with them in 1939 before the WW2 and when records started again he was gone so must have died.

I will look at that Pearce in 1960 but I will be surprised as was living with them and no longer listed and he would have outlived her husband?
Title: Re: How to find a cemetry
Post by: [Ray] on Monday 09 July 18 15:34 BST (UK)


. . . . . or even . . . . .
www.FREEBMD.org.uk (http://www.FREEBMD.org.uk)

 ;D
Title: Re: How to find a cemetry
Post by: dawnsh on Friday 20 July 18 20:16 BST (UK)
Hi Maz

Have you managed to find their last resting places yet?
Title: Re: How to find a cemetry
Post by: Maz R on Friday 20 July 18 20:20 BST (UK)
I think the answer is we may never no.  But Martin has done a great job.
Title: Re: How to find a cemetry
Post by: dawnsh on Friday 20 July 18 20:50 BST (UK)
All burials/crematons in municipal cemeteries/crematoria are recorded but with so much choice in the London/Middlesex areas, finding the actual places may take a bit of time.

You might want to consider purchasing a copy of Adolphus's will fom HMCTS for £10.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills

Many wills start with funeral wishes.

If you have contacted the cemeteries team at Hounslow and they aren't there, there is the possiblity they chose to be buried out of the borough at the nearby Twickenham cemetery.

https://www.richmond.gov.uk/twickenham_cemetery

The Book of Remembrance for SW Middlesex Crematorium at Hanworth is online but Adolphus isn't listed on the 28 June but that's not to say he wasn't cremated without an entry in the book.
Title: Re: How to find a cemetry
Post by: dawnsh on Friday 20 July 18 21:35 BST (UK)
Related topic here

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=796942.0
Title: Re: How to find a cemetry
Post by: familydar on Friday 20 July 18 21:46 BST (UK)
A number of mine who died Ealing area have turned up in Ealing & Brentford (or is it B&E?) Cemetery.  Ancestry have an index and images of the plot registers, not sure if it's only some or perhaps all of them.

Jane :-)