Lodge Hill Common Graves

[BobSil]

I am currently researching an aunt who was buried in a Common Grave at Lodge Hill in 1942. I have the grave number and when I do a search on burials in that grave I get 15 names, including my aunt. Does anyone know how these graves were arranged I.e. could it actually be 5 adjacent graves with 3 people in each. It surely can’t have been a single massively deep grave or could it!

 

[rosie]

I don't know about Lodge Hill graves but Key Hill and Warstone Lane have very large common graves so it's possible. Many of my ancestors are in large common graves.
rosie.

 

[superdad3]

See also forum entries under PUBLIC GRAVES and COMMON GRAVES. May be of interest.

 

[oldbrit]

I carved names in the Crematorium wall wood panels there in the 1950s

 

[Barbie61]

I don't know about Lodge Hill graves but Key Hill and Warstone Lane have very large common graves so it's possible. Many of my ancestors are in large common graves.
rosie.

Hello, how do I find out the grave reference numbers for my great grandparents who were buried in paupers graves in Warstone Lane Cemetery?
Many thanks
Barbara

 

[pjmburns]

This might help

Burials

Website of the Jewellery Quarter Research Group

www.jqrt.org