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Would they have been put in a coffin do you think? or would that have been an extra expense?

Goodness me! Would the grave just be covered and then uncovered when a burial was to take place.

Thanks Lyn. I can't get my head around 90 people being in the one grave. I don't know how they would all fit. Just seems so sad. Think I've found relatives in Key Hill Cemetery but they couldn't afford their names on the headstone, and some of the sites have been reused.

Would anyone know how public burials worked please? There can be a number of people buried beneath a memorial stone listing their names. However there can be a gap of a number of years from the first burial to the last....so would they reopen the grave to put another body in each time?

Thanks Janice and Alberta for the info, really kind of you to take the time to provide it. I guess I just need to keep ploughing away to see if I can make a link somewhere. Best wishes Alison

No I haven't got her Vesta's birth certificate. The Powles and Ball surname are confusing as they do change from censuses. Henry Powles was also on the stage at one point and his stage name was Harry Ball...but then the children use the surname Ball on some censuses. Great photo of the statue...

Thank you. Wasn't sure if there was anything else I could do. I suspect the story is going to be a bit like the one you've mentioned.

Hi There is a story that somewhere in the family on my dad's side through his aunts there is a connection to Vesta Tilley (Matilda Powles). I have made two separate trees one for the Matilda Alice Powles family and one for the Wilkins/Dunn family but not getting very far. Would anyone know of...

Thank you. I've learnt something new. Best wishes Alison

Sorry what is MRIC by the way.

Spot on. How did you find that out so quickly :)

Thanks for your replies, they are very interesting and makes me realise even more what these chaps went through during WWI, and WWII for that matter and indeed any war! What I find difficult to understand is that he first attested into the army Militia on 21 Feb 1890 and did Annual Training in...

Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Hollymoor, Northfield, Birmingham Hi I have found my ggrandfather as a 'Patient' at this hospital on 1921 census. He was born in Feb 1871 but on this record his birth date would calculate as being born in Feb 1867? He's listed as an out of work miner. Place of...

Wow you are right about the grandchildren...took me a while to sort it out. It would make sense then that the electoral register shows Callow and Cleaver living at the same address on the electoral register but as far as the census goes they would have 2 different forms to complete.

Hi Thanks for the info, this is what I meant about both having the same address.

Hi Regarding Great Hampton Street... I'm not quite sure how the numbering system works as I have 2 lots of people living at 2 of 117 Great Hampton Street and yet they are not on the same schedule. Could 117 Great Hampton Street be a block of tenements? Regards Alison

That's interesting Janice his birth name was John Athur James Callow.

Could be, I've never seen it written before.

Hi Does anyone know what (Nat) would mean in this context please. Best wishes Alison

So sorry to hear such sad news. I've not been a member long and yet Maurice always seemed to help. My thoughts are with his family.