Landican and Flaybrick Cemetery, Birkenhead, Cheshire

[croftsylvia]

Can anyone help me please.i am trying to locate the grave of my great grandparents John and Ellen Devine Buried in landican.the cemetery office have given me the grave number but i have been unable to locate it maybe the gravestone has been removed it which case i would like to mark it in some way.any ideas please. i am unable to visit the cemetery in the week when the office is open

[celia]

If you cannot find the grave because there is no gravestone,
to locate it you will need a grave map which landican will/might supply you with.There might never have been a headstone or it was destroyed.It depends how old it was.Unless you can work out which way the stones  go in numbers .It will hard to find without a grave map,Different cemeteries start the numbers from say 1 on the edge and go up to the middle.Others might go across.

Celia

[Colin D Gronow]

Hi croftsylvia & a big welcome to Rootschat

The Cemetery Office should have given you a Section number & a Grave number, you will need both.

If they did what were they? from it we can tell where about in the cemetery the grave should be.

As Celia said they might not have a stone.  It's unlikely that if they did, it's been removed, if badly unsafe it would have been Laid down, or given a stake to support it.

Let us know if we can help further.

If the grave is unmarked (ie no headstone) the cemetery office should if asked nicely put a marker on grave so you can find it when you visit, so try them again if you can

Regards

[celia]

The Cemetery Office should have given you a Section number & a Grave number, you will need both.

I was presuming they had ::)And theres me me always saying "Never Presume" Don't forget you need the religion when looking for burials,Unless a they are in a pauper's grave.

Celia

[croftsylvia]

Thanks for all your help.the grave number i was given is 10/764c.my family tell me that there was a gravestone on the grave.Landican were kind enough to send me a map.but as you say it is difficult to work out which way the graves run and they seem to chang direction part way doen the line

sylvia.

[Colin D Gronow]

croftsylvia

Would you like me to have a look on my next visit?

Were they CofE?

Regards

[Melagbe]

Hi Sylvia

Can you please post a name as I have lots of random photos taken from Landican cemetery, and I have walked around section 10 lots of times, so you might just be lucky.

Regards

Mel

edit: have seen your did post the names, sorry.

Anyway have looked at my photos and cant see one for your Devine family.

[croftsylvia]

Thank you any way.They are buried with their son-in- law Samuel walker and as he died first his would be the first name on the head stone.I have contacted the cemetery office to see if they can give me any more information and perhaps put some sort of marker on the grave.From what the family tell me Ellen Devine was an extordinary women and i would like to mark her grave in some way to show she is not forgotten

regards
Sylvia.

[Colin D Gronow]

Hi,

Visited the cemetery on Friday afternoon, and boy did the rain come down on me.

I was surprised by the state of section 10, I'm used to going around Flabrick cemetery, and seeing the mess but Landican should be better looked after.

As you said the numbering system seemed all over the place and I could not find the grave, but I did spend 40 minutes trying. There were a lot of graves without stones or markers to show the number, a few layed flat (inscription downwards & too heavy to lift) and quite a few sunken graves with broken stones.

Sorry not to have been more fruitful.
Regards