Bracebridge burials

[Toz]

Hi

Don't know if the following link is helpful but it's the catalogue of Lincs Archives St John's Hospital deposit. As well as refs to patient and staff docs, page 20 has some graves registers and cemetery plans references:

http://microsites.lincolnshire.gov.uk/upload/public/attachments/524/HOSPSTJOHNS.pdf

If you look on google maps satellite image for bracebridge heath at 200ft and look at the three, hedged, foot-pathed plots of land between Sleaford Rd on the west, Lichfield road on the north and a large blue roofed building on the south - that is the cemetery. There is a massive number of staff and patients buried there. No memorial though..

Here are some photos of the hopsital:

http://www.countyasylums.com/mentalasylums/bracebridgeheath01.htm

Regards Toz
 

[Toz]

Found these photos of the inside of the hospital too:

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=95

Toz

[Tal]

Two burial registers have been located and are now held at Lincoln Archives but the register(s) from 1887 to 1920 remain missing. 

[TonyD]

Hello Eilleen,
If you are ever in Bracebridge All Saints cemetery, could you look out for Drewrys.
I believe there are three buried there. 
Thank you.

[Eilleen]

Hi TonyD 

I looked through the picture's I have all ready taken, they are not there.

I guess you are looking for, George, Sarah and Annie, who in 1901 where running the " John Bull " Inn , Bracebridge heath,

I went past it to day, all boarded up, and they are building a Texco 's store in area that was the car park.

When it's not so wet, I will try and find their resting place's.

Eilleen.

[TonyD]

Thank you Eilleen,
these Drurys are a bit late for me!
So no need to go looking for their graves.
Have ancestors in 18th century that were involved with an estate in Bracebridge, and I think one got married there.
The 20th century Drurys may be related but  are probably at some remove down a distant branch.
The 18th century Drewrys were aldermen and occasionally Mayors of Lincoln and quite difficult to research. I do however have an original document related to a mortgage on a Bracebridge estate and was hoping that the Drewrys buried there might be from around that time.
Thank you again.

[Djr]

Hi Eileen

I would be interested in knowing whether you have any headstones with the name Rhoades or Rhodes on it, I think both my GG Grandfather and mother was buried there.

Mary died in 1916 and Charles 1921