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Re: General Cemetery in Luton - I'm looking for a grave
« Reply #9 on: Monday 30 March 15 19:35 BST (UK) »
Ok - I thought it may have speeded things up a bit

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Re: General Cemetery in Luton - I'm looking for a grave
« Reply #10 on: Monday 30 March 15 19:42 BST (UK) »
Yes, thank you very much for all your help  :) I have an answer from Holy Ghost Parish - it's not there. Six to go  :)

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Re: General Cemetery in Luton - I'm looking for a grave
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 04 April 15 15:43 BST (UK) »
I received a lot of emails from parishes in Luton last days with no informations about Stefan. But one parish told me that I shoud also ask St Mary parish in Dunstable and also cemetery in Dunstable and it seems that they were right. Cemetery in Dunstable gave me informations that they have a record. It was not Stefan Swider, but Stefan Sinder, who was buried  in 1956  (9th February). Initially I thought this is different person, because of different surname and month but:
-based on FreeBMD database, there is no Sinder who died in UK in 1956
-I have seen photo with grave and I thought it was March headstone (number looked like '3'), but quality of the photo and espiecially distance from headstone can suggest that it could be '2').

Especially that there is no Sinder who died in UK in 1956, I'm rather sure that this is the same person who I'm looking for  :) They also informed me where he was buried ( " in plot no: RC 41." - I don't have  cemetery map with sections but this  is important information) and gave me his last address (and this is Luton so correct).

I did a terrible job to trying to locate this grave on Dunstable Cemetery on West Road on bing maps (google maps were too poor). I know that it sounds unreal but I think I located this grave on bing maps. Of course it's from distance and quality isn't very good but I believe it's not my imagination. As grave was very original, headstone was like a cube with St Mary ahead of this
headstone so it was not impossible as there were not many graves like this. I also know that behind this grave, few rows later were  headstones with a lot of crossess and on bing map I located this place too and place of Stefan's grave is exactly in perfect place in relation to this graves with crossess. There were also houses with chimneys in the middle of the house behind the cemetery and the same houses with chmineys I see on bing maps (place called Meadway). I checked date on bing maps and if date is correct this map was created October 2011, so this grave was still there in 2011.

The amount of information I got is amazing, it's beyond my imagination. I know his last address now (we checked this house later on Google Street View - it's great). I know where was the funeral (St Mary Dunstable), where his grave is (Dunstable Cemetery, plot RC41), I was able to locate this cemetery on bing maps and I found grave with looks exactly like this, and the other graves seen on my old photo from 60s looks the same. I never expected that I will get so many informations.

So thank you very, very much to all people in this thread, to all parishes and cemeteries in Luton, and especially to St Mary Dunstable parish and Dunstable Cemetery.

I did this for my father, who is 73. I don't know so many words in English to explain how happy he was when I told him about this.

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Re: General Cemetery in Luton - I'm looking for a grave
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 04 April 15 18:39 BST (UK) »
That is brilliant news, I'm pleased that you managed to find the grave.

Now that you have a grave and the plot number, there may be someone on here who lives near there and who would be willing to take a close up photograph of it for you. You never know, you'd be suprised what can happen on Rootschat.
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Re: General Cemetery in Luton - I'm looking for a grave
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 04 April 15 19:03 BST (UK) »
Will try & get over to Dunstable in the next 4 weeks or so
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Re: General Cemetery in Luton - I'm looking for a grave
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 05 April 15 17:41 BST (UK) »
Hello, I popped over to Dunstable cemetery and found the grave for you.

It has Mary on the top.

In loving memory of our very dear friend
Stephen Swider
who passed away 5th February 1956
aged 41 years

Eternal rest give unto him Oh Lord
May he rest in peace

SIP

Sorry the rest is in Polish
Stefan Swider 15/12/14 Piekary (Poland)
6/2/1956 W. Luton

I did take pictures but have never transferred from camera to Rootschat. Will have to think about that.

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Re: General Cemetery in Luton - I'm looking for a grave
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 05 April 15 17:54 BST (UK) »
Wow Retriever, that is brilliant. Putting a photo on RC is easy, just click on attachments at the end of where you post. Just make sure you give your photo a name that hasn't been used before. Or you could send eli2 a PM and get their email address.
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Re: General Cemetery in Luton - I'm looking for a grave
« Reply #16 on: Monday 06 April 15 09:29 BST (UK) »
eli2. Herewith the two photos I took yesterday.

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Re: General Cemetery in Luton - I'm looking for a grave
« Reply #17 on: Monday 06 April 15 11:27 BST (UK) »
Wow, it's great! I really don't know what to say! I'm very very grateful..and once again, I really don't know so many words in english to decribe this  :D It's fantastic to see that this is grave is still there in a such  good health. Amazing. Could I ask how did you find this grave?  It was easy to find or rather hard? When I read earlier post here from lazydaisy and others when they suggested that somebody could do a photo, I wanted to post here cemetery map from bing maps and I wanted to show where is exactly this grave is. But to do this, I needed little more time to do a screenshots from distance and from a closer look from bing maps and to write some explanations on this cemetery map where this grave is and yesterday I didn't have time for this, only for checking the thread. I wanted to do this today so I'm checking the thread once again today and such an amazing surprise - photos are here! I really don't know what to say.

Retriever, Thank you very very much  :) And of course to all others in this thread too.

Beautiful surprise.