Help in searching for a Mary BRIGGS

[junef]

hello remann,
This is good and a nice suprise.Thanks your reply.Im sure this information will fill in a gap in future as my search go on. Thank you for sending. Do you have any info on where mary and the children grew up with their parents?

regards - June

[Peterkb]

I too am working on Edward Briggs of Chatham.  I think he is the one baptised in 1767, son of William and Violetta, but I cannot find his burial.  If anyone has this I would be grateful.
Thank you
Peter

[remann]

 
    Hi,
          I have a burial date of 16th. Oct. 1821, but so far have not found where he was buried, so I've
      just sent an enquiry to Medway Council, to see if he was buried in the Cemetery, as the place of death was given as Chatham, I have had no luck in finding his wife's grave either.

                     remann

[casalguidi]

Remann, local council cemeteries weren't opened as early as 1821.  At that date most people were buried in the local parish church but I see your Edward's burial is registered by a non-conformist church http://www.familysearch.org (16 Oct 1821 Chatham).  If you look at http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ you will see that Edward's burial has the national archives reference number RG4 0916.  This is the reference number for burials at the Zion Baptist Chapel in Clover Street, Chatham.

Medway archives may be able to inform you of any graveyard for the baptist chapel at that time or whether, as it was in some places, they used a portion of the parish church burial ground http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/

Casalguidi

[remann]

  Many thanks for that information casalguidi, I will follow it through.

        remann.