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Locating Burials

Lady Penelope

Lady Penelope

master brummie
I'm wondering if anyone can help with this query please?
I have been locating all the children from the local Orphanages who are buried at St Michael's, Boldmere. There are nearly 40 children buried in three separate graves and just one has still eluded me.
Ronald Taylor was buried on 11 May 1951 aged 4 and is entered onto the Register but no grave number can be found.
There are three gravestones but only the last two are still visible. The first has been toppled and grassed over. Not that they always record accurately who is buried there. I'm hoping that this stone will be unearthed when the car park is laid.
Is there a site which tells you where people are buried please?

Many thanks.
 
I always thought that for parish burials the main source of info was the church burial register plus map of grave sites.
No idea of anywhere else for churchyards
Sorry Pen.
 
Thanks Janice, yes, I think that is the case although someone found a burial for me through this site some time ago when I didn't know the church.

The problem I have is that some children are buried in the churchyard and aren't on the stones and also a letter in the Archives states that one child called Kathleen isn't on the stone and I can't find a Kathleen!

Another problem is that very little is available from the Orphanage as there is a 100 year closure made doubly difficult by the fact that there can be children's details that should be available but aren't as they are listed with more recent names.

I'll keep trying!

Penny


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hi pen i am not really that good at this sort of thing but are you direct contact with the church ? the only thing i can think of is what janice has already said and that is that the church should have a map of where everyone is buried..some time ago i had to try and find out where my dads 6 year old brother was buried in wales..he was an evacuee and it was only by getting in touch with the church that i was able to pinpoint his grave...

lyn
 
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