Hi all and thank you for your replies which I was very pleased to get. You are a busy lot indeed. I rang HALS again today as it seems the info on the site doesn't quite match with what they actually have under DP/1/50 1886-1925 for Rickmansworth. Catherine's death of 1894 should come under that year range. Therefore I am now getting conflicting info re whether Catherine is at the cemetery or not. The person that spoke with me did eventually acknowledge that this was not my error. She did say that they are very short staffed and would get back to me but didn't know whether it would be today or tomorrow. I explained to them that I had already looked at the microfilm at Watford re burials and it seems that their info is the very same as Waford Library. Unfortunately not very complete records. Which having checked that out by looking, with great difficulty, on their site I must agree. Under the website for the Watford Parish Archives DP11/1/25 1890-1892 Vol 1. there is the following info " Most of the volume unused. Pencil entries of year surname only continue until 1894. Note from 1892 the register of burials was kept by the clerk of the burial board". I searched again and found Parish Council info under CP124/1/1 although this relates to Dec 1894-April 1898. Catherine died in Feb 1894 before this. Even if I were to go down the Watford route this would be difficult. Not sure if I mentioned before that there was a Catherine Goodman on the 1891 census born in Ireland aged 9 years at the time, which would be the same age as this Catherine. She was resident at Falmouth Cornwall. Her father was Samuel, lucky for me. Strangely enough her brother George was born in Clonmel in 1889. Not sure if they were from a military family also as Clonmel was a garrison town with lots of regiments and their families residing there at one time or another. Lucky for me the brother would also be too young otherwise things could get very complicated. I had a feeling that that family were not Catholic as I think their relative was Archibald buried in the Church of Ireland, St Mary's Clonmel. I did also e-mail the manager of Watford Vicerage Road Cemetery re Catherine not sure if she will just send me back to HALS.
