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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Antony1977 on Sunday 01 December 24 16:31 GMT (UK)
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My partner and I are on Ancestry and are trying to find out if her GG uncle John William Coley 1899-1972 was buried or cremated , he died in Chestnuts care home in Ross on Wye in 1972 ( no longer there ) I’ve searched the relevant council cemetery records but nothing appears.
Can anyone give us a starter for ten on how to find out if he was buried or cremated , do cremation lists exist?
He was born William John Coley but didn’t seem to ever use that version of his name , his first and Second World War service also used the name John William Coley
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Herefordshire Archive and Records Office may be of help :-\
https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/herefordshire-archive-records-centre
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Any idea where/when his wife Edith died, he may be buried with her.
SS
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Herefordshire history.org.uk
They have online readable editions of the Ross Gazette, including 1972.
The announcements section may show details for funeral.
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Any idea where/when his wife Edith died, he may be buried with her.
SS
Edith died in 1945 sadly of cancer , John never remarried , we don’t have a location for her burial / cremation either at this stage
Update : found her grave at Northern Cemetery Bulwell notts, her husband isn’t buried there tho
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If you have only searched the relevant Council Cemetery records it would not show a burial in a Churchyard or necessarily cremations. I suggest that you actually contact the Council and ask if they have a record of a cremation. There may be a charge for a search.