Balme (Balm, Baum etc) Ancestors Ovenden, Halifax - Non Conformists

[Greenwood Greats]

Good morning to you all
I am at a brick wall with my Balm ancestors and cannot find where they are buried.

I have what I believe are most of their deaths but would love to find where they are buried

Joseph Balm b1788 (Midgley) d1849/50 (Ovenden) - baptised at Ebeneezer Chapel Heptonstall
His wife Betty Balm nee Sutcliffe b1787 (Ovenden) d1844 (Ovenden)
Their son David b1819 (Ovenden) d1839 (Ovenden) - baptised Zion Methodist New Connexion, Ovenden

Also brother of Joseph above who was baptised at Ebeneezer Chapel Heptonstall
John Balm b1795 (Midgley) Death unknown
Elizabeth Balm (nee Shaw) circa 1795 (Midgley) death unknown

I have checked on Ancestry and also on Find My Past and there is nothing coming up for any burials.
Also checked Family Search and the search on Calderdale Family History
Plus I have contacted Lister Lane and they cannot find them and have checked all through Illingworth St Mary but no luck
I have also checked Mount Zion at Ogden burials

Any help or ideas gratefully received

[Greenwood Greats]

Does anyone have the MIs for Luddenden Ebeneezer Wesleyan Graveyard?

Please could you check to see if there are any Balm/Balme/Baue listed

I have just found on Find My Past one of my Balm Ancestors married daughter and full family in there just wondered if maybe this is where all the family is?

many thanks

[PaulineJ]

If cfhs doesn't have it, noone else will.
Maybe its a simple as there was no headstone

Have you also tried looking in  the Thornton area?

[Greenwood Greats]

ok thank you

[BumbleB]

From the catalogue I have from West Yorkshire Archive Service - Collections Guide 2 - Nonconformist Registers (slightly ancient as dated 2006):

Luddenden, Ebenezer - no burial registers prior to 1891

My Appleyard connection (Ovenden) were mostly baptised at South Parade, but were buried at St Mary, Illingworth.  Not a lot of help to you, as I see you have already checked St Mary.

[Greenwood Greats]

Thank you very much for your help

[BumbleB]

Another location - King Cross Methodist.  I don't know what the dates are, but I've a copy of the Grave plan, and I can see 3 mentions of the surname Baume - AA 6 and 7, plus Z 6.  And I've just seen a note I made on a letter I received from King Cross - "Original Burial Book now at Halifax Archives".  I'll have a look back at a RootsChat query I made on 12 September 2009, and see what came up there.

I'll, hopefully, be back!

[PaulineJ]

King cross is under CR33 at ancestry.
The "Baume" on the plan refers to the grave owner, not necessarily the bodies within it.

CFHS has indexed all the MIs and photographed all headstones.

Pauline

[BumbleB]

OK, had a look at the old thread - I believe that the original burial book - one volume, 50,000+ entries is in the Archive Section of Halifax Library.

Whilst looking, I see that there might be another venue - Nursery Lane Methodists - some of my Ovenden lot are buried there - Catalogue says burials 1893-1954.

Unfortunately we have to remember that Nonconformists were exactly that.   

Well done PaulineJ.