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Topic: Burials in Philips Park Cemetery, Manchester (Read 374 times)
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mshrmh
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Hi Veebareeba - the records for 1866 - 1987 are also at Manchester Central Library - I can't tell from your profile if you're in the area, so this may be of no use.
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?categoryID=1062&documentID=462&pageNumber=5
Re suggestions - I'm not sure if you're certain of the date of death - if not I'd check as many sources as possible (GRO & LancashireBMD say) for the name & try to get the death certificate. You can also search the records online to get burial dates with that name & see how they then tie in with age/date of birth on the GRO inidices. Both ways it depends on how common the name is, how easy ot will be to resolve.
What you really end up paying for is the plot number and other occupants of that plot. As the cemetery is very large the former is virtually essential & the latter quite useful. The records at the library would give you a plot number, but not other occupants.
Another RootsChatter has posted the cemetery plan for Philips park & aerial photo on this site - if you get a grave reference you can see whereabouts it is.
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HOWMUCH
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Hello vee.
With regards to the records at the library . If you are fortunate to have a deceased recorded at a certain address on a particular census then I have found that the details on their records show their home address .
I have only used it for a burial in 1916 so I am afraid that I cannot comment on earlier dates but my relative was on the 1901 census at that address and remained in the same house until 1916 .
Armed with the plot number I went to Philips Park but as previously stated , it is a massive cemetery .
I have not serached for it at length as yet but I may have another look in the better weather but at least I am certain that I have found the plot number .
Howmuch 
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mshrmh
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Veebareeba - you can look at the full GRO index under "images" on FreeBMD. They have a death registration for Thomas Sweeney in March quarter 1935 Manchester N 8d 596 age 0 - so if this is the one buried at Philips Park it doesn't sound like your great granddad.
A thought, as you mentioned Pendlebury - this comes under Salford, rather than Manchester is it possible that he was buried in Salford? If your mum was very young she may have had a different idea of the "other side of Manchester" then.
Further thought - have you managed to trace any deaths or burials for other members of the family (wife, children who died as infants, parents) - sometimes people are not geographically where you might expect, but are buried in an existing family grave.
Finally, unlikely from what you've said regarding your mum's memory & being RC, but Manchester had opened the crematorium at Southern Cemetery in 1892.
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AnneMc
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I have just checked out the Manchester burial record site listed. and I see you can register to use the site.. If I registered what more information would I receive?
Thanks
Anne
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Yorkshire - Thompson. Savage, Morris, Richardson, Frankish, Mintoft, Myers, Barker, Hotchkiss
Shropshire - Hotchkiss
Derbyshire - Hardwick, Barker, Marples
Lancashire - Winstanley, Morton
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MancsMan
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Anne the answer to that is - we just dont know yet
The site was updated a few days ago and ----
read on
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,275786.0.html
Ken
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Hilton - Wiltshire,Prestwich Manchester Millington-Manchester, Birmingham Harris - Manchester, Salford, Southern Rhodesia, Aston Manor Birmingham, Temple Balsall, Knowle. Jones-Higher Broughton, Cheetham Hill, Denbighshire Lawton - Prestwich, Manchester Smith-Manchester Carey - Manchester Cotterell - Lambeth, London Fletcher-Middleton, Manchester Capper - Manchester Census info is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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AnneMc
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Hello Ken:
Thank you for the reply. Guess I will just have to keep checking the site.
Cheers
Anne
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Yorkshire - Thompson. Savage, Morris, Richardson, Frankish, Mintoft, Myers, Barker, Hotchkiss
Shropshire - Hotchkiss
Derbyshire - Hardwick, Barker, Marples
Lancashire - Winstanley, Morton
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