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Worcestershire / Re: Dudley - old St Thomas burial ground at Queens Cross
« on: Wednesday 11 August 21 09:14 BST (UK)  »
That’s very interesting, thank you - nice detective work! So, it looks like the cemetery may have been landscaped as early as the 1960s. That’s somewhat aggressive - some of the headstones were as recent as the 1930s... I wonder if the stones may have been moved to the municipal cemetery, as with the previous cohort from St Thomas’s that’s listed in the MIs (although there are no Victorian memorials still there it seems).

Thanks again.

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Worcestershire / Dudley - old St Thomas burial ground at Queens Cross
« on: Friday 06 August 21 15:58 BST (UK)  »
Hi All - Is anyone here familiar with the old Queens Cross Cemetery? From what I can gather, this is separate from the current council cemetery (confusingly also at Queens Cross) which opened in 1904. Instead this was one of seemingly several burial grounds belonging to St Thomas's.

I'm trying to locate an old grave from 1872. The monumental inscription was recorded here - http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~uktranscriptions/genealogy/StThomas_Dudley_MIs.htm - so the headstone existed until the mid-20th century at least. I suspect the headstone may no longer be there, but I'm finding it hard to locate much specific information about this particular burial ground, where it was, and whether it still exists.

I'm wondering if anyone familiar with the area might be able to shed light on the location of the cemetery - and whether the old 19th-century graves are still there? (And if not, then what might have happened to them.) Any info much appreciated!

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Renfrewshire / Re: Bridge of Weir burial/cremation 1952
« on: Sunday 22 November 09 23:14 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks, Ann and davieboy. I'll try the funeral directors you suggested, and keep my fingers crossed!

If anyone else has any other suggestions, please do let me know.

Thanks once again.

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Renfrewshire / Bridge of Weir burial/cremation 1952
« on: Tuesday 03 November 09 17:35 GMT (UK)  »
Hi All,

My first post here - hope someone can help. I have a relative who died at the Lintwhite Hostel, Bridge of Weir in 1952. I'm trying to find where he was buried or cremated.

I've tried both Renfrewshire Council and Woodside Cemetery & Crematorium (owned by the Paisley Cemetery Company) but neither organisation could find him in their records. I even tried Inverclyde Council without success.

Can anyone think of anywhere else I could try? Are there any churchyards whose records are NOT kept by the institutions mentioned above? And if so, where might they be found?

My relative was English, but I don't think he left a will specifying where he wanted to be buried, and I don't believe he had any relatives to organise the funeral, so I would have thought he was buried in or around Bridge of Weir. But perhaps there was some effort made to repatriate people in these cases - does anyone know?

Any advice would be much appreciated. I feel terrible that no-one in the family knows where this poor man was buried, so I would be very grateful for any help.

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