Woman's Hospital Nottingham

[raro20]

Hello

I am trying to find out what happened to my twin brothers who were born in the above hospital on the 7/8/1958 and died there the same day. Their names were Gary and Robert Davies.

I have had help from a kind man at the Wilford Hill Southern Cemetery & Crematorium and he has accertained that they are not on any of his records. I've also checked: Carlton, Gedling, Red Hill and Bulwell with no luck.

Mine and my sisters memories are, that my mother never got to hold or see the boys but my Dad
did and when asked if they wanted the hospital to organise the burial, they went with that.

I live in NZ so finding it hard with all the cemeteries in Nottingham and hospitals.

The Wilford Hill gentleman wondered if they may have been buried in the Hospital grounds but so far it looks like they didn't have a graveyard? Or that they may have been buried in a local Churchyard which is what I am stuck on. The other option was that a local funeral director may have done the burial but I'm stuck there on who to ask as well.

Has anyone got any more ideas on where to look.

I have sent off an email to the Univesity as I understand they have patent records that can be looked at after 100 years or maybe less if you ask them, we will see if I get a reply.

Thanks

Linda

[jaywit]

I don't know when burials finished in the Central Cemetery, that would be the closest one to Peel St. ( I was born in there, the hospital not the cemetery )

The hospital no longer exists. There is a pub on the site. If you google 'The Gooseberry Bush Nottingham' you will see that.

The cemetery department of the city council should know if burials were still going on in the Cental Cemetery at that time.

[raro20]

Hi

Central Cemetery is also known as General and Canning Circus I believe. That being the case, they are not in that cemetery unfortunately.

I think I may have been born at the hospital too, but I don't have a full birth certificate to check.

Thanks
Linda

[jaywit]

I wonder if anyone at Notts Archives has any idea which cemetery the hospital used? It may be worth an E Mail, or failing that to contact the Nottingham Evening Post to see if they will publish a letter from you, it is easily within living memory and the Post do features on past Nottingham.

[larkspur]

I am sorry to be really negative on this but if the hospital was involved, could the babies have been cremated? Would they have gone to the expense of a burial?

[jaywit]

I am sorry to be really negative on this but if the hospital was involved, could the babies have been cremated? Would they have gone to the expense of a burial?

Looks like the OP has tried Wilford Hill, was that the only crematorium in Nottingham in the 1950's?

[raro20]

Hello all

Thanks for the input of ideas. Now come to think of it, it would make sense to have them cremated.

I did send an email on the 4/9/11 to National Archives and I did get a reply suggesting the General and Church cemeteries.

At the time I did not know the actual hospital, so I will flick them off another email. Failing that I will try the Evening Post.

On the cremation front, would they not have had to use a funeral director?

I had a reply from the University with no luck on the records front, but I had the funny feeling they may have had accounts, so I will go and check.

Thanks all for your replies.

Linda

[nottsgirl1]

Have you tried Bulwell Cemetery as some babies were buried there.

[raro20]

Hi Nottsgirl

The gentleman at the Wilford Hill Cemetery records office had a look and said there were no records for them at Bulwell Cemetery but he did say to try Archives for burials at St John's and St Mary's in Bulwell.

I think I will send off a form to Archives next.

Thanks
Linda