Canwick Road Cemetery - Lincoln

[sallyduk]

Hi Lizzie

I should be going back to the Lincoln Cemetery in the next week or so - if you would like me to have a quick look whilst I'm there do you have his details?

Regards
Sally

[LizzieW]

Geoff and Ricky

Thanks for the information.  As we will be in the area within the next couple of weeks, I'll take a look anyway.

Sally - My g.g.grandfather's details for Canwick Road Cemetery are:

Charles Cockett, born 12 February 1811, died Sept.1872, buried 21 September 1872 at the cemetery.

If you can find the grave, I'm interested as to who else is buried with him.  His first wife was buried at All Saints, Holbeach together with a baby from that marriage.  His other two children from the marriage grew up and moved away and one was my g.grandfather.  His second wife, re-married 2 years after my g.g.grandfather died and in 1881 was living in Boston. 

Thanks to all.  I won't be on the computer after today until the last week in September.

Lizzie

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

Geoff and Ricky

Thanks for the information.  As we will be in the area within the next couple of weeks, I'll take a look anyway.

Sally - My g.g.grandfather's details for Canwick Road Cemetery are:

Charles Cockett, born 12 February 1811, died Sept.1872, buried 21 September 1872 at the cemetery.

The cemetery register gives a bit more detail

Charles Cockett Abode 11 Mint Lane,St Martin Buried 21/09/1872 Age 59 Cemetery Lincoln, Canwick Road Plot C1527

[sallyduk]

You beat me to it Glen 


Lizzie

Just been looking through the fiche to see if I can find others with the same grave and came across Annie Lizzie Metcalf aged 1 died 9 Feb 1878 & William Jones Richardson aged 9mths died 25 Feb 1878.

Do either of the names mean anything to you?

[LizzieW]

Sally and Glen

Thank you for the cemetery reference.  I guessed he might have been living at 11 Mint Lane, as he was there on both the 1861 and 1871 census.

Sally - Those two names mean absolutely nothing to me.  His first wife was Ann Day before marriage and his second wife Eliza Cowham.  After he died, his second wife Eliza married a John Meanwell and in 1881 is living in Boston.  I don't think she had any children with John Meanwell.  We have no Metcalfs, Jones or Richardsons in the family. 

Lizzie

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

I wonder if the plot is unmarked, if memory serves Sally has the details from the cemetery register (the same details i pulled up from Familyhistoryonline) and not details from monumental inscriptions.

It tends to suggest that the plot isn't owned by the family as there are members of different families within the same plot, there may not be a stone but the plot number is quoted so it should be possible to locate it (probably with help from the cemetery staff if they are around on the day you visit).

[ricky1]

Hi Lizzie

I went through Holbeach yesterday, looks like most of the graves in the churchyard are near the front and right hand side of the church, and they dont look as if they are in a good condition. But good hunting , and hope you find what your looking for

ricky

[sallyduk]

Hi Lizzie

Sorry to disappoint you but as you can see from the attached photo Charles Cockett's gravestone no longer exists - Plot C1527 is in front of the gravestones you can see in the photo.

After speaking with the groundsmen I can confirm he was buried on 21 Sept 1872 aged 59 years.

They also confirmed there were 3 children buried in the same plot but I forgot to write down the 3rd name as it wasn't a Cockett - the other 2 were William Richardson & Annie Metcalf.

Regards
Sally

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

I really wish i could get down to Canwick Road again soon. The nearest i get is this thread

I have found references to dozens of family but i suspect that most of the plots are now unmarked.  I have three plots in the "C" section for aunts and uncles who died as youngsters around 90-100 years ago and two family plots in the "B" section, one located and one i would dearly love to find.

Having said that even a headstone isn't always telling the whole story, one shows my grt-grandfather and one of his sons, it doesn't give details to show my grandfather is also in the plot and i am probably the only one in the family who knows where he is.





The picture below shows my grandfather and some of his children/my aunts and uncles (the oldest girl died aged 12 and hers is one of the burials mentioned, the other two burials were for twins to the children pictured, all the children in section "C")