Find a Grave

[Anothershot]

Hello,
I'm hoping for some help locating the grave of my G G G Grandfather, please.
He is listed on Find a Grave , buried at Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford.
His name is Samuel Mortimer buried 11 Jan 1848 memorial #154300479
his wife Ann Mortimer was buried 12 March 1870 memorial #154300495
I'm passing on the A1(M) this weekend and feel I've left it too late to make enquiries at the cemetery,
or library.
I would be grateful of any help, many thanks.

[BumbleB]

There are contact details for the Undercliffe Cemetery Charity, and they have an office on-site.

Telephone number and e-mail address are detailed on the website.

www.undercliffecemetery.co.uk

Always worth a try 

[emmygee]

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=516185.msg3167939#msg3167939

[Anothershot]

Wow. Thank you very helpful and quick. x
I have rang the cemetery and a v helpful gentleman says they will look it up for free, but 5 pounds if I want to know who else is in the grave. Excited now! Also the grave yard didn't open until 1856? so maybe not so excited. x

[arthurk]

Not sure if you've already committed to getting info direct from the cemetery, but the Bradford FHS transcript of MIs for Undercliffe gives the grave reference as E67, with the following names, plus dates of death and ages:
MORTIMER SAMUEL 11 Jan 1848 76
MORTIMER ANN 12 Mar 1870 94
MORTIMER ELIZA 30 Apr 1872 33
MORTIMER MARY 4 Dec 1888 75
WILKINSON ZACHARIAH 7 May 1891 46
WILKINSON EDNA 2 Aug 1912 69
WILKINSON ETHEL MAY born 21 May 1877 died 15 Nov 1878

There are also Mortimers in E64/65:
MORTIMER ADA LAVINIA 24 Nov 1892 42
MORTIMER SAM WATTS 14 Apr 1896 3M
MORTIMER ANNIE 10 Jan 1897 31
MORTIMER SAM 11 Jan [....] 53

The map provided with the data puts these in the area shown in the link at reply #2 as Eu and Du - in view of the grave reference it might possibly be Eu.

Bear in mind that just because Samuel is mentioned on the memorial, it doesn't prove that he is buried there, as the inscription could have been composed when someone else was buried there later to commemorate him as well. The registers might make clear who was buried there, and if you're lucky, the memorial might even say where he was really buried.

Arthur

[Anothershot]

Thank you very much Arthur .

[Anothershot]

Hi
 So chuffed found the gravestone, thank you for so much help. You were right Arthur the stone says Samuel Mortimer interred at Kirkgate Chapel . Am I likely to find another plaque there do you think, next time ?

[arthurk]

Sorry for the delay in replying - only just found your latest post. I'm glad you found the memorial at Undercliffe, but I don't know much about Kirkgate Chapel (which was Wesleyan).

I understand the registers are held by West Yorkshire Archives (Bradford branch), but I can't find Samuel in the index or images of these at Ancestry. Maybe the burial register hasn't been filmed?

The memorials were transcribed in 1928 by Arthur Blackburn, a local eccentric whose copious transcriptions are now in Bradford Local Studies Library. I think they would do a lookup for a nominal sum, if not free.

However, I've no idea whether the chapel is still standing, and even if it is, whether its graveyard might have been built on. Looking at the Alan Godfrey large scale map of 1906, I can't see any reference to a chapel actually on Kirkgate, although there's a Methodist Chapel marked on Baldwin Lane, which was like a continuation of James Street running from Godwin Street to Kirkgate. If this was the one, then it looks to me as though it's now underneath the modern Kirkgate shopping centre. Possibly someone in the library (or another RootsChatter) would know more.

Anyway, I hope this helps.

Arthur

[Anothershot]

Thanks again Arthur.
  I've had a look on Google for further info, and have a couple of things I will need to look into, including a thread from 2003 listing 43 non- conformist chapels in the area. Need a week for that I think. at the mo still very happy to of found a memorial stone and other ancestors.

By the way I think Sam Mortimer on the other grave stone, is Mary Mortimers son, therefore Samuels grandson.

Bye and best wishes.