Boroondara Cemetery record query.

[Maggiemae]

Please could someone offer an explanation on the term 'placement" in relation to a record I've found for a family grave.

I am looking at records of four extended family members buried at Boroondara General Cemetery, the burial date of two of them is recorded as burial and the burial dates fit with their dates of death. The other two are recorded as placement, one died in April 1959 and the burial record says placement 6 April 1961, the other died December 1983 and placement 26 Jan 1984.

The only explanation I have come up with is placement means ashes placed in the grave. Am I on the right track and is there a way of confirming this if I am.

Many thanks.

 

[judb]

Seems you are on the right track.

This quote is from a price list from Booroondara Cemetery
https://www.kewcemetery.com.au/pdfs/Boroondara_Price_Lists_July2021_June2022.pdf

Please note:
An additional fee applies for the placement of Ashes in large niches; Interment Fee $550.00
There is a Cemetery fee for removing and replacing shutters for Ashes placements or inscriptions $355.00

As seems to have happened in the cases you mention placement of ashes may take place some time after cremation.  My husband's ashes were interred more than two years after his death (not at Booroondara).

You could email Booroondara just to make sure.

Judith

[Maggiemae]

Thank you Judith for your helpful reply, I will email them.