Grave search

[Dando]

Trying to find where my grandfather was buried in Newcastle upon Tyne around 1951. John arthur Nichol.  About  50 years old from shieldfield area

[amondg]

It's a very common name.
Did he marry, if so who was his wife?
Have you found him on the 1939 register?  It will give you a date of birth

[mckha489]

Have you his actual death registration?

You can look on www.gro.gov.uk  You have to register, but it is free to search.

[CaroleW]

Welcome to Rootschat

If he died 1951 aged roughly 50 he would have been born around the very late 1890’s to early 1900’s.

There is no birth or death in Northumberland for a John Arthur Nichol matching that profile

There is no birth for a John Arthur Nichol between 1888 - 1915 anywhere in England/Wales/Scotland

[mulberry-rose]

The only death of a John A Nichol around that time is aged 73 Northumberland Central in Sep Qtr 1952

[CaroleW]

The 1952 death was John Albert

[JenB]

Welcome to Rootschat 

If he did die in Newcastle it might well be possible to find a death announcement detailing the place of burial in the Evening Chronicle. But in order to do this a much more precise date of death is needed.

As already observed, Nichol is a fairly common surname, plus there are no John Nichol deaths in 1951 +/- 2 years which seem to match the profile you've quoted.

Are you able to give any firmer details? Do any of your family have a copy of his death certificate? Do know his actual address at the time of death, other than Shieldfield area?

[Biggles50]

You may need to contact the Bereavement Officer at the Council for them to search for the burial location and plot number, there would be a fee involved.

Also if he was not buried in Newcastle then other nearby towns may the location of his burial.

Gateshead is on the other side of the Tyne and is a Town in its own right.

To give an example, my family burial locations were found by visiting the local archive and manually looking through the records since they were not online.

[JenB]

If he was indeed buried in Newcastle, then quite a few of the cemetery records are available online via Family Search - some of us use them fairly frequently.

But we need to home in on the precise date of death before we can help.