Does anyone know how we would go about finding when a relative died and where she would be buried?
An elderly relative died this year and as next of kin we have his ashes. We had thought we might have them buried in his parents plot - and there lies the problem, nobody in the family can remember exactly when they died, whether they were buried or cremated and if they were buried, which cemetary.
I've looked on freeBMD but the dates are too recent.
The details we know are;
They were called Ellen and Fred Carter, they lived in Bradford and their deaths would have been registered in Bradford. Ellen was born in Feb 1913 and we think she died around 1996 or 1997.
We don't know when Fred died, only that she had been a widow a long time (probably before 1970). If they were buried, my mum thinks it would probably been in Bowling cemetary.
I realise this is a "needle in a haystack" case - it seems to be easier to trace family 100 years back!!! Everyone in the family just assumed that someone else would know and nobody does!
