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Looking for Graves in Warstone Lane Cemetery - Rolfe
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Wendy
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This is a very strange one. I have checked the indexes and where it states grave and section it just reads none on both entries for Lydia and Catherine. I know some of the early records are missing so maybe this is the case. I don't know whether Key Hill Brian can help more with this one. Do you have a death certificate for either of the girls. This may throw some light on it.
Thanks Wendy, I don't have a death certificate (yet) as I only recently found out they existed.
The Burial Record that I have comes from the "Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry" from their "Parish Records Collection - burial" which is where I found the cemetery name and the register numbers.
The Burial Record that I have comes from the "Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry" from their "Parish Records Collection - burial" which is where I found the cemetery name and the register numbers.
Key Hill Brian
Proud Brummie
These are very early burials in WL, Numbers 3,329 & 3,330 - Consequtive - so presumably buried at same time.
The WL records are notorious for having the Grave Number missing in the Register - but the surviving Register is really the Cash Book - It was more for recording the cost (& payment)!
Other registers would have cross refernced to this, but either have not survived, or were taken into storage by the C of E or City Council and forgotten about!
Copies of the actual register entry can be obatined from the bmsgh - about £4.
As they are so early in the life of WL - only 6 years from opening in 1848 - it may be possible to search through the Grave ddeds register from day 1 until 1854, and try and spot the grave with it's occupants. Quite time consuming.
It is also possible that it is an early Public Grave grave in Section B against the wall of the building in Warstone Parade, where the wall mounted memorials have become 'lost' over time.
Handsworth cemetery will undertake genealogy searches, but it is about £10 minumum and can be wait for weeks to find spare time to undertake it!
I would suggest popping over there - Oxhill Road, and see if they will let you look through the grave deed Register - probabl;y better on a weekend when it may be quiter. they are open 7 days a week.
Brian
The WL records are notorious for having the Grave Number missing in the Register - but the surviving Register is really the Cash Book - It was more for recording the cost (& payment)!
Other registers would have cross refernced to this, but either have not survived, or were taken into storage by the C of E or City Council and forgotten about!
Copies of the actual register entry can be obatined from the bmsgh - about £4.
As they are so early in the life of WL - only 6 years from opening in 1848 - it may be possible to search through the Grave ddeds register from day 1 until 1854, and try and spot the grave with it's occupants. Quite time consuming.
It is also possible that it is an early Public Grave grave in Section B against the wall of the building in Warstone Parade, where the wall mounted memorials have become 'lost' over time.
Handsworth cemetery will undertake genealogy searches, but it is about £10 minumum and can be wait for weeks to find spare time to undertake it!
I would suggest popping over there - Oxhill Road, and see if they will let you look through the grave deed Register - probabl;y better on a weekend when it may be quiter. they are open 7 days a week.
Brian
