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St Joseph’s church (nechells) help with the map below ⬇️

Suzanneiom

Suzanneiom

master brummie
Hi all, this map I’m going to share isn’t the original graveyard map, but it’s the oldest one they have. Facing the church this covers most of the left hand side. This map is the only one that corresponds with the original register St Chads have.
I was looking for
Iommi 4/183 and Iommi 4/87.
As you can see from the map, there is indeed an Iommi 4/183 but the other is no where to be seen.

I wanted to pick all your brains, I guess there isn’t much of a pattern here other than section 3/4 and 5 are all together in some sort of order.
Where would you place 4/87? Where do you think it would be?

The reason I’m asking is because when the better weather comes we will be starting to clear it as it’s very overgrown.
I want to see if there’s a head stone.
Where I’ve drawn the square, there are some graves there too, and I’m guessing he didn’t include those on the map as its very badly overgrown and has been for years.

I did wonder if that where the 4/87 would be, but it doesn’t really match up….

Hope that makes sense.
What are your suggestions? ;)
 
It's difficult to say. It appears that the numbering generally goes up from the bottom left to top right - for graves in section 4 at least.

There appear to be other numbers missing. Do the blank squares contain graves? And if so maybe they are unmarked because when the map was made there was sadly nothing to identify who was there.
 
MWS said:
It's difficult to say. It appears that the numbering generally goes up from the bottom left to top right - for graves in section 4 at least.

There appear to be other numbers missing. Do the blank squares contain graves? And if so maybe they are unmarked because when the map was made there was sadly nothing to identify who was there.
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Yes I think the empty squares represent a grave, I just don't know where id place the one im looking for...
Out of all the cemetery maps ive looked at ( and that's a lot) this is the only one where the numbers aren't in order which is frustrating.
 
Looking again at the column with the 4/70s and 4/80s, are those graves that are listed next to each other or are there gaps between them where other graves could be?
 
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