Hi janeeidden,
It can be very frustrating looking for burials in that timescale, as I know from personal experience.
Cremations were still fairly rare in the 1930's, - this quote is taken from
'The History of Cremation', Site:
'Growing popularity in the 1950s
A Parliamentary Bill to put the practice of cremation into law was thrown out in 1884 amid government fears it would upset voters. although the first cremation at Woking, that of Jeannette Pickersgill, went ahead in March 1885.
It was not until 1902 that Parliament gave the Home Secretary power to regulate cremation. By this time a number of crematoria had been built in cities including Manchester, Glasgow, Hull and Liverpool and, in the same year the Act was passed, Golders Green crematorium opened in North London.
Even by 1930, when the new Cremation Regulations were issued, still in force with minor changes today, less than five per cent of funerals ended in cremation.
The popularity of cremation increased steadily throughout the 1950s. In the first two years of the 1960s, 30 crematoria were opened.
In 1963 the Pope allowed Catholics to be cremated and today in the UK only a few religious groups forbid cremation, including Muslims, Orthodox Jews and the Greek and Russian Orthodox churches'.
Romilly.
