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Title: About trying to find my great granddad grave
Post by: Luke Elmore on Tuesday 24 March 20 05:40 GMT (UK)
Hi I was just wondering if anyone could help am trying to find my great granddad grave his name is Richard Coleshill and he died 3 August 1927 thanks Luke
Title: Re: About trying to find my great granddad grave
Post by: rosie99 on Tuesday 24 March 20 06:41 GMT (UK)
Presumably this is his death registration
Deaths Sep qtr 1927   
Richard COLSELL
age    68   
Guildford reg district    2a   101

Where in Guildford reg district did he die
https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/guildford.html
Title: Re: About trying to find my great granddad grave
Post by: Luke Elmore on Tuesday 24 March 20 06:58 GMT (UK)
It says he died in Victoria hospital working London surrey
Title: Re: About trying to find my great granddad grave
Post by: rosie99 on Tuesday 24 March 20 07:07 GMT (UK)
I think you mean Woking.  Where in Woking was he living as that should give a clue to where he was buried.  Victoria Hospital was alongside the Basingstoke canal on Chobham Road, close by Woking town centre
Title: Re: About trying to find my great granddad grave
Post by: Luke Elmore on Tuesday 24 March 20 07:09 GMT (UK)
He was living on number 6 Pollard Road
Title: Re: About trying to find my great granddad grave
Post by: rosie99 on Tuesday 24 March 20 07:16 GMT (UK)
That was in Maybury so you need to be looking at churches in that area.  You should also consider he may have been cremated, Woking crematorium opened in 1878.

I can't see anything in online newspapers
Title: Re: About trying to find my great granddad grave
Post by: Luke Elmore on Tuesday 24 March 20 07:22 GMT (UK)
I will email some church’s near by where he lived and see if they can find anything and can you see if you can find his wife Elizabeth she died in 14 January 1934
Title: Re: About trying to find my great granddad grave
Post by: rosie99 on Tuesday 24 March 20 07:33 GMT (UK)
Eliza not Elizabeth  :)

Deaths Jun qtr 1934   
Coleshill    Eliza   age 74   
Surrey N.W.    2a   332

Sorry, I still can't see anything in newspapers
Title: Re: About trying to find my great granddad grave
Post by: Luke Elmore on Tuesday 24 March 20 07:49 GMT (UK)
Thank you so much for looking for me and I will send some emails out right and let’s how they can tell me something where they could be buried
Title: Re: About trying to find my great granddad grave
Post by: rosie99 on Tuesday 24 March 20 10:53 GMT (UK)
Hopefully they can help.   If you are only looking at Maybury churches then St Peters church in Old Woking might be worth trying too.

I could only see the Surrey Advertiser.  I don't think that Woking News & Mail & Woking Herald are available online.
Title: Re: About trying to find my great granddad grave
Post by: jonwarrn on Tuesday 24 March 20 13:32 GMT (UK)
Richard Colsell
Buried 8 Aug 1927, Brookwood Cemetery
Age 68
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGZP-C6WQ
Title: Re: About trying to find my great granddad grave
Post by: rosie99 on Tuesday 24 March 20 13:34 GMT (UK)
Thank you John  ;D. 

I never think about Brookwood even though I grew up in that general area. 
Title: Re: About trying to find my great granddad grave
Post by: jonwarrn on Tuesday 24 March 20 13:35 GMT (UK)
Quote from: rosie99 on Tuesday 24 March 20 13:34 GMT (UK)
I never think about Brookwood

I did try several others first ;D
Title: Re: About trying to find my great granddad grave
Post by: Luke Elmore on Tuesday 24 March 20 14:06 GMT (UK)
Wow thank you so much John you have really helped me with this information thank you so much everyone xx
Title: Re: About trying to find my great granddad grave
Post by: rosie99 on Tuesday 24 March 20 14:34 GMT (UK)
Shame there is no plot number  ;D
https://brookwoodcemetery.com/plotmap/