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Topic: Grave Search - Northchurch (Read 903 times)
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Rick
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Hi Chelle
Would you give us a few more details please in case someone is able to help. Is the grave in the churchyard of St Mary's Northchurch? When was the burial and what is the name of the deceased please?
Rick 
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This isn't the church then. It must be a municipal cemetery. For anyone able to help, here is the relevant map.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/02w5/
Just in case anyone can manage a photo, I will move this back to the GENERAL board as imaging is disabled on the LOOKUP REQUESTS board.
Rick
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Rick
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Please don't worry about it Chelle!
The only problem that I can see is that Council run cemeteries tend to be on the large side. If this is the case with Northchurch cemetery in South Bank Road, it might not be feasible for someone to search for you without a plot number. Have you managed for find a plot number for Elizabeth RANCE?
Rick
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Stefan Woolf
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I live very close to Northchurch.
I am completely unaware of any graveyard near South Bank Road, although that's not to say there isn't one. It's not a road one would normally have cause to go dpwn.
I'm fact I'm not so far aware of any graveyard in Northchurch not associated with a church or chapel.
It was my (perhaps wromg) assumption that people from Northchurch laid to rest in a cemetary would be in one of the Berkhamsted ones. I certainly think that would be true now.
I'm not sure when I'll be able to take a look, but I'll try to soon.
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Stefan Woolf
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A further thought or two....
It's not on the list of cemeteries managed by Dacorum Borough Council, which I think confirms my view that Northchurch deaths would now be buried at Berkhamsted. (But the current Berkhamsted Cemetary is modern, and I don't know the 1930s situation).
If it's in the road you say, it's on the other side of the canal from Northchurch Parish Church, so clearly not associated to the church. I can't see how contacting them will help, as they are unlikely to hold burial records for a graveyard that's not theirs.
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Stefan Woolf
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My son used more intelligence than me, (not unusual  )
If you look at Google Earth, (or similar), there is clearly quite a large cemetery beside South Bank Road.
A lot of it seems to be masked by very high trees, which is why I've driven past it many a time, not knowing it's there.
There appear to be enough graves that it could take a while to find a particular one. If I can get down there, do you have any idea where the one you are after is located, please ?
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Stefan Woolf
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I was always on the understanding from my father that this graveyard was part of St Marys Northchurch.
I rang St Peters Church during last week and the lady there also told me that this yard was part of St Marys Church and i would need to contact them as they would hold the records for that graveyard,
OK 'Chelle - I stand corrected. I'm sure your information must be good.
I guess I got side-tracked by comments before I posted that it must be a municipal cemetery, rather than a church graveyard.
It sounds like St Mary's, Northchurch must have run out of space around the church, and hence used a plot further up the hill, (perhaps they still do ?). This is all education to me - I had no idea whatsoever that there are graves there.
Which is it you want, please ? - someone to look for a marked grave, or somebody to get in touch with St Mary's for details of the burial.
I'm happy to try and look for the grave, (but will wait for better weather than today!), but do you have any idea of location within what looks like quite a large area, please ?
I'm not sure I can help much with contact with the church, if they don't respond, though.
I assume you have seen this "Contact Us" page ?
http://www.stmarysnorthchurch.com/contactUs.asp
It lists more than one phone number, and on the face of it also links to more than 1 e-mail address, but it sounds like you have tried quite hard already.
Stef.
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. Yes i think well gather that long ago with the main church yard possibly filled that the space they had and bought that ground up in South Bank Rd for use of burials. I'm sorry i really couldn't tell you where abouts she is , i used to look years ago when i lived there but some of the stones were unreadable and at the time i wasn't into family research so never investigated further into finding the grave .