Hi All
A couple of questions in relation to my post in Surname Interests of a couple of days ago about a family of Baxters relates to a lady, Emily White who was living with them at separate addresses for about 30 years.
Emily White died aged 82 on 17.03.1955 while living at 157 Hansons Bridge Road, Erdington with the Baxters, the informant just two days later on the 19th was G.W.Baxter of 157 Hansons Bridge Road and is listed on the certificate as "causing the body to be cremated". Now between myself and my Dad who has being doing the family tree we must of amassed about 110 certificates (birth, marriage and death combined), its the first time we have come across such an oddly worded phrase, which we assume means that Emily had already being cremated, but after just two days?
Now on visits to Birmingham Archives and to Crematoria my dad has failed to locate one with a record of Emily's cremation, he has checked with the Crematoria at Perry Barr, Streetly, Sutton, Yardley, Lodge Hill, Sandwell, Robin Hood and Woodlands, out of that eight only four were in operation in 1955 and of that four one didn't open until the October. My dad has even checked with Witton Cemetery just on the off chance but to no avail.
So, as anyone else ever come across such a phrase on a death certificate before (even the the people my dad spoke to at the archives don't recall seeing anything like that), and where there any other crematoria in operation at the time that we are not aware of and are no longer in operation, if not where do we look next?
Steve
A couple of questions in relation to my post in Surname Interests of a couple of days ago about a family of Baxters relates to a lady, Emily White who was living with them at separate addresses for about 30 years.
Emily White died aged 82 on 17.03.1955 while living at 157 Hansons Bridge Road, Erdington with the Baxters, the informant just two days later on the 19th was G.W.Baxter of 157 Hansons Bridge Road and is listed on the certificate as "causing the body to be cremated". Now between myself and my Dad who has being doing the family tree we must of amassed about 110 certificates (birth, marriage and death combined), its the first time we have come across such an oddly worded phrase, which we assume means that Emily had already being cremated, but after just two days?
Now on visits to Birmingham Archives and to Crematoria my dad has failed to locate one with a record of Emily's cremation, he has checked with the Crematoria at Perry Barr, Streetly, Sutton, Yardley, Lodge Hill, Sandwell, Robin Hood and Woodlands, out of that eight only four were in operation in 1955 and of that four one didn't open until the October. My dad has even checked with Witton Cemetery just on the off chance but to no avail.
So, as anyone else ever come across such a phrase on a death certificate before (even the the people my dad spoke to at the archives don't recall seeing anything like that), and where there any other crematoria in operation at the time that we are not aware of and are no longer in operation, if not where do we look next?
Steve