Manchester Burials online

[uk2003]

Fun while it lasted 

[Mr. MIGKY]

Fun while it lasted 

well we told people to enjoy it while they could, didn't we 
Migky

[Barbara.H]

I repeat...

Do you think it will stay free once the local elections have finished? 

I guess that's that till after the bank hol then? 

[uk2003]

From what I was told today 

The site should not have gone live when it did - and when it comes back we will pay through the nose.  par for the course in ancestry now

[gledhill]

The site is working fine type in a surname and a list comes up withe names and date of burial.

Click on grave number and all names in the grave come up.

If there are lots of different names it is a public grave and not a family grave.

With this information you can go to Manchester Central Library and find full records on micro film.

The  thing that is missing on the grave number is the letter before the grave number and wether it is noncomformist, C of E, RC or Jewish making it difficult to find the actual grave.

[tony coleman]

 I went along to southern cemy with just a grave no. to go on.  Planned to spend a couple of hours checking each plot until I found what I was I looking for. Found the grave in the second plot I looked in within 15 minutes !  Well chuffed.  First time I have done it.  Just lucky I suppose.

There seemed to be a few more folk doing the same thing.

[gledhill]

I should have said the one I was looking at was Philips Park not the easiest to find a grave in.

[uk2003]

This link may help you in your future hunts

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,308773.0.html

[gledhill]

Thanks for the link I'm sure it will be a of use next time.

Spent several hours looking for a grave in Philips Park with no luck despite having visited the grave several years before.