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From: Rod Neep <>
Subject: Re: Which cemetery?
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 15:44:30 +0100


In article <059701bd7c7f$a1082bc0$>,
Treacle Beak <> writes
>Hi folks,
>My GGGrandfather died in 1886, aged 33 of TB at home, 5 Elm Avenue, Notts.
>I have his obituary and as he was well to do it is informative, *except* the
>part about the cortege making it's way to the cemetery. All very well but
>you'd have thought that someone would have had the nouse to say which one,
>so that 112 years later I would already have the answer. How
>inconsiderate! He was Henry Hyams and although disowned by his family for
>marrying a gentile or at least marrying her 3 months after their child was
>born (can't quite work out which!), I assume (we all know what assume means)
>that he would have been buried in the jewish section of the cemetery. So
>after all that, can someone tell me which cemetery that might have been?

He will most likely be buried at the Rock Cemetery or possibly the
General Cemetery. The Nottinghamshire Archives Office has full records
of all of burials at both. Simply going there to "have a look" at the
gravestones is a needle in a haystack job... there are many thousands of
graves there... way too many to search to hope to find the one you are
looking for ;-)

The records at the Notts RO are not that easy to search, and even when
it is found with its grave reference, another step of contacting the
Cemeteries Department is needed to find *where* that plot is located in
these huge cemeteries. You will find the Cemeteries Dept. very helpful,
and they may even offer to meet you there to find the plot.

I have been through this procedure in trying to find the grave of my own
great grandparents..... the Cemeteries Dept. gave me a little plan which
showed the general area of the plot to within 40 yards. Even then I had
problems scrambling through all the brambles etc. ;-) Picture this...
Rod with mobile phone in hand, pushing brambles and thorns aside, and
the helpful man at the Cemeteries Dept. guiding me... two rows forwards,
three stones to the left... ;-) Eventually I found the plot... with no
headstone.

Rod
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Rod Neep : Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England:
: http://www.neep.demon.co.uk/fhist/
RESEARCHING: NEEP (ONS all periods & places) GOONS 2913
Notts: MILLS (1800), SARDISON (1720), DENMAN (1750), WRIGHT (1780),
JOHNSON (1700), SAVAGE (1900), DYKES (1900), CLAYTON (1850)
Oxon : HOWES (1880); Norfolk: HAW(E)S (1850); Essex: TAYLOR (1855)
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