Brighouse Cemetery

[greggus]

Hi,

Any experts on Brighouse Cemetery out there?  I have a plan of the cemetery, I have a section and plot no. (E113) for the grave i am looking for, but due to the great number of unmarked graves in this section and gravestones carrying no plot number, I find it impossible to locate the grave I am looking for.  Any ideas?  This cemetery is not on the NBI so I cannot find it by looking up the plot numbers of nearby graves.  Also, each time i go up, there has been nobody working there to ask.

[dave the tyke]

Usually (but not always) there is a plot number on the kerbstone at the foot of the grave. They run in numerical sequence so if you find two in any row you should be able to work out where the others are. From experience I know this is easier said than done and I have never been to Brighouse cemetery so I don't know if it applies there but good luck

Dave

[dobfarm]

The head gardener at Brighouse cemetery may have a detailed  map and records.

They (Below) should be able to help locate this grave! If like other town cemetery admin's? they should have very detailed maps. Not just the general plan map!

Another way is to work out by the earliest dates (First date grave was dug) on a randam grave stone(s) in the section and if numbered. This will only work on the first body in the grave, buried date in the unmarked & head stone marked graves as buried in rows!! one after another - day after day as each first burial happend by date and  as Dave (Above) says.....as number on gravestones......etc
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Dates here only example!
IE ;- if Gertrude Uglymire was buried 12 th June 1865 as first burial in that grave with an headstone number row E number 109 then  Robert Blogg was first buried in this grave on the 18 th of July 1865 with a headstone in E row grave number 119 then E row grave 113 is in between 109 and 119 also E 113  between 12th June 1865 and 18th July 1865-Therefore the first burial in E 113 of this example is between these dates
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If you can visit Elland Parkwood they should help (informal/off record.)and give you a detailed map of the section and grave free.  (Maybe a £1 copy charge or less of their section map) But if its a admin recorded phone /documented mail/email (Formal Request) query search then there will be a charge (a hefty one)

Brighouse Cemetery, Lightcliffe Road, Brighouse
Clifton Cemetery, Towngate, Clifton
Elland Cemetery, Exley Lane, Elland
Luddenden Cemetery, Stocks Lane, Luddenden
Rastrick Cemetery, Carr Green Lane, Rastrick
Sowerby Bridge Cemetery, Sowerby New Road
Stoney Royd Cemetery, Water Lane, Halifax.
The burial records for these cemeteries are held at Park Wood Crematorium, along with the cremation records, and are available for the public to view. The records are in date order and a date of death or date of burial or cremation is required to locate an entry.

http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/advice/life-events/death/cemeteries.html

Address, Email address and telephone numbers

http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/community/life-events/death/contact.html

[mmm45]

Thanks for the tips on burial register whereabouts....saved myself a few bob!

Went down to Parkwood this morning the enquiries desk gave me the registers found my man they showed me the plan of cemetery and armed with that off i popped to find the grave....disaster no headstone   and it could be one of two unmarked plots but at least i now know where
Plot I was after E515.

Ady

[dobfarm]

Hi
I'm losing it! as to who is looking for what grave. Anyway glad someone has found sumat . As for unmarked graves? sometimes people just like to know the exact burial plot or photo it putting their own photo memorial or inscription inlay-ed in the photo for a tree. Ie Ancestry dot thingy com or United sumat websites.

Dave the Tyke - as Illingworth moor the chapel itself has the graveyard map Halifax archives told me. Phone them as they know a woman who knows all about the graveyard and she lives in a place called Boothtown .



Dobby

[dave the tyke]

Thanks for that Dobby. I'll try and set some time aside for that next week

Dave