West Brom Gravestone Switcheroo

[weste]

I'm at present transcribing wesleyan high street burials and i don't recall seeing the name in amongst them. Where was she living in the 1851 and where were the others in the family living in 1861 and what was her full name? I would think by the hospital itself was likely for the grave. Perhaps it may be worth searching for old pictures of heath lane hospital. I live by where christchurch was and most of the bones i believe were cremated and interred in all saints and there is a plaque about it but as to what happened to the gravestones i don't know but there was loads  of gravestones as i used to short cut through it.Also the high street wesleyan church lost land to redevelopment and the records are terrible to read.

[PaulStaffs]

Thanks weste.

They would have been at Loveday Street or Cronehills Street when she died but as I mentioned she died before the new cemetery was opened. She may have been buried at All Saints in the area that was cleared for the car park and the stone re-located. Her name was Mazellum (or Mezellum) which isn't very common and is often mistranscribed!

The lower half of her stone is blank, obviously intended for her husband's MI... sadly he died in the workhouse several decades later although he was probably buried in the pauper graves in the same cemetery.

(I remember walking through Christchurch graveyard when I was at college over the road, great place!)

Paul

[weste]

I'll keep my eyes open at the archives when i go. I've lived in west brom since 1975, funny enough just up the road from where you mention, i saw them clesr graves from christchurch cem before the built the flats. If you've been to the area recently there's a bigger car park in church st, the big new bt building behind and up on the cronehills link way they are building a shopping complex opposite the retail bit. Tesco's responsible! New big tesco shop I think i would have remembered the name you mentioned if i transcribed it unless it was one of the badly decipherable  ones. Also it seems a bit distant to bury up there but i suppose it depends on the faith and what was available. Have you got the death cert which may indicate a death that your relative had been in heath lane?

[PaulStaffs]

I've only passed through WB in recent years... it's changed a huge amount since I lived there!

I haven't got the cert yet... it's on my list

Thanks for the help,

Paul

[weste]

It's not on st peters inscriptions either. Going by west brom methodist burials well, they are from walsall, birmingham and dudley for example. Sometimes you get a register stated as starting from  a particular point and sometimes you find some entries earlier but not numbered.

[PaulStaffs]

Cheers, another one I can cross off the list!

[weste]

The other thing that slightly muddies the waters is that when were these monumental inscriptions done, before or after the gravestone was moved. These are just inscriptions, they could still be recorded in a burial register for a particular church but these inscriptions would have been compiled later. The only one i can speak for is west brom high street as i've looked at the records. Also these inscriptions may be compiled from other peoples lists. What actual church  burial registers have actually been looked at? I don't mind looking from time to time in between doing transcribing.

[daveclark001]

Hi Paul

You say you have the MI's for Christ Church. Did you find them on line & if so could you send me the link please.

Regards

Dave

[PaulStaffs]

I think I purchased them from here:

http://www.bmsgh-shop.org.uk/

Best regards

Paul