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nearest cemetery to Washwood Heath area ?

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Hi there,
My Uncle's baby daughter died aged 1 month in 1915.
Does anyone have any idea the name of the nearest cemetery to Teall Road Saltley at that time ?
I know the old method of burying young infants was to "put them in with someone else" Did this still happen at this time ?


Any help or advice much appreciated:)
Margaret
 
Margaret
The Only Cemeterys I Know In The Saltley Area Are St.saviours Church In St Saviours Road.
St Margarets Church In St Margarets Avenue.
And There Is St Matthews In What Was Great Lister Street.
Good Luck
Did You Get A Photo Of Teall Road?
 
Winston these are churchyards not cemeteries. I have posted a list of graveyards and cemeteries on the Birmingham site in main sites above. I have also listed when they closed so this should narrow things down. Infants were sometimes buried with people who died at the same time. You have to remember that cost was a big factor and people had to be practical it was hard enough to feed the living. These infants would sometimes be buried in a public grave also which were in all cemeteries. These had to be paid for but not as much as buying a private grave. I would think the child would have been buried at Witton Cemetery.
 
May have been buried in Yardley Cementry it was open then, there was also a Cementry in Park St, Digbeth?, it was expensive to bury bodies, due to the poverty of that time, so it may have happened to infants.
 
Wendy
I Always Thought That St Saviors Was Stopped Centuries Ago And Only
Certain People WhomWas Perhaps Parishioners Only And With Money Was Burried There
When Our Neibours The Sharp Family Moved From Cromwell Square In 1952/3. Which Was On The Lichfield Rd By Thompsons The Butchers , To A Fairly New Built Of Massonettes Directly Oppersite The Cemetry Railing In St Saviors Church There Was One Or TWO Fresh Interments Had TAken Place And The Grave Yard Of That Church Was Chocablock So I Would Agree With You Witton Would Have Been The First Choice And As I Remember As A Kid The Only Spoke Of Witton Is Where Every body Went , And I Believe Park St Ended Years Before St Saviors, Our Friend ,Said That
Yardley Cem ; Was Available At The Same Time , Would That Be Correct ,And Is It
Possible For You To Say In Your OPINION Which Of The Cems; Is The Largest Of The Two ? . Have A Nice Day Best Wishes ASTONIAN ,;;;;
 
Hi

I agree that witton was the most likely cemetary but as Astonian said Yardley was also available but how the "crow flies" yardley would be the nearest, the good thing about Yardley is that if you contact them directly they will usually pull out all the stops to help, witton does too but whereas witton preferably needs GRO references Yardley (as it is smaller) will do a general search, the childrens graves and common graves are situated just behind the "lodge" at Yardley, if you post the name of the child then BCC have a geneology search available which you can try to find where the child is buried, failing that then you need a visit to central library, look up the two obvious cemetaries (yardley and witton) and look for the date you think the child died, bear in mind that in those days a person was buried within seven days of death, which should help you with your search
 
I feel it would be Witton Cemetery as Saltley and Witton were in the Aston District until 1924
Yardley was still in the County of Worcestershire at that time

Funeral Direcrors often charged extra to travel from one County to another
 
nearest cemetery to Washwood Heath area ?
That would be Villa Park.
 
Hay Mills, Tyseley, Yardley and other districts were taken out of Worcestershire and incorporated into Birmingham in 1911, so Yardley cementary was under Birmingham in 1915.
 
Bojalu said:
I feel it would be Witton Cemetery as Saltley and Witton were in the Aston District until 1924
Yardley was still in the County of Worcestershire at that time

Funeral Direcrors often charged extra to travel from one County to another
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Hi there,
Just received a letter from Yardley Cemetery, unfortunatley baby Beatrice is'nt there, so will write to Witton next :)

Many thanks to everyone for their help & advice
 
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