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Leicestershire Lookup Requests / Belgrave cemetery search
« on: Monday 16 September 13 10:21 BST (UK)  »
In NZ almost all cemeteries have online search:

http://www.localgovt.co.nz/site/Recource_Library/activities_services/services/cemeteries/Cemeteries_Search_Models.aspx

I am having trouble finding the same thing in the UK.

My great grandfather Alfred Hefford b1855, and his father Alfred Hefford b1827 lived in Leicestershire and I guess are buried there.
I would like to know where they are buried and what it says on the tomestone.

How can I find this out?


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Leicestershire / Re: Hefford Family...
« on: Sunday 01 September 13 03:49 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the info.

For 100 years they thought something happened to him but it looks like he just didn't like to keep in touch with his family for whatever reason.

I learnt something interesting from this exercise, the Heffords in Leicestershire were impoverished(probably) textile workers, and the 3 generations I find appear to have criminal records for petty theft.


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Leicestershire / Re: Hefford Family...
« on: Saturday 31 August 13 11:44 BST (UK)  »
I am happy with what I have found out about my grandfathers family in Leicestershire but...
I have two roadblocks
1)
My grandmothers mothers maiden name was Elizabeth David and she was born in Glamorgan, Wales in 1850. But there are many Elizabeth David's born in Glamorgan in 1850 so I can't find her parents. In 1870 she married an Evan Cule (b1846 in Glamorganshire)
2)
The story goes that my grandfather's little brother Leonard Hefford b1883 went off to the USA and was never heard of again.
But I find there is a record of Leonard Hefford b1883 taking a ship from Liverpool to Halifax arriving 22 apr 1910.  Then the electoral roles in Newfoundland show a Leonard Hefford living there until 1972 which seems about right. No marriage, no death record.  How do I prove this is my grandfathers brother?  Its a rare name

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Leicestershire / Re: Hefford Family...
« on: Saturday 31 August 13 07:17 BST (UK)  »
This is an old post but for what it is worth, that is my grandfathers family.
I don't know much more than is in the census records unfortunately.

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