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From: "Hugh Watkins" <>
Subject: Re: [MON] Foster/Woodcroft,Chepstow: Record of death/final resting place
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:01:49 +0100
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If you subscribe to ancestry go to
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx
and search the images for deaths
http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=8966
then you will have an approximate date of death
if not use Ancestrylibrary.com at a library near you
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http://content.ancestrylibrary.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=8966
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to find a location for a burial is more difficult
start with the phone books
http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=1025&
you might search local newspapers for an obituary or a funeral announcement
Hugh w
2008/6/8 <>:
> Good morning.
>
> Would appreciate help in discovering my great uncle's and aunt's dates of
> death, plus the whereabouts of their final resting place(s).
>
> Their details are as follows:-
>
> Uncle
> Name: Lloyd Courtney J. Foster.
> Year of birth: 1904.
> Place of birth: Monmouthshire.
> Year of death: unknown, probably 1970/80s.
>
> Aunt
> Name: Edna Foster (nee Evans).
> Year of birth: 1906.
> Place of birth: Portskewett, Monmouthshire.
> Year of death: unknown, possibly 1960/70s.
>
> Last known address (early 1970s)
> "The Fo'c'sle",
> Woodcroft,
> Chepstow,
> Monmouthshire.
>
>
> I believe that Woodcroft is within Gloucestershire but near it's border
> with Monmouthshire, so the couple could have been buried in either county.
>
>
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
>
>
> Richard.
> Halesowen, UK
>
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