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Need help with burial details please.
« on: Tuesday 04 October 05 17:52 UTC (UK) »
I wonder if anyone can help me find the burial details of Frances Doris Graham Scott nee Wager born we think in Widdrington,my friend says as far as he knows she was buried in Ulgham Cemetary but after trailing around for a couple of hours he couldnt find a headstone for her.Frances married William Thomas Scott 9th October 1937 and lived at Croft Mile Road Widdrington Station she died aged 79 in 1991.If anyone can help with her burial details we would be most gratefull.Thankyou.Anne.
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Northerngirl
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Re: Need help with burial details please.
« Reply #1 on: Friday 07 October 05 07:33 UTC (UK) »
Hi Anne.

As an 'old hat' at looking around cemeteries for gravestones I may be able to help.  I do know that the councils now administer the graveyards and so are likely to keep a record of where the graves is.  There is also the possibility that your relative was cremated and therefore, obviously, you would find no gravestone.

I know from my research for my grandmother's grave - about 50 miles away from where I expected it to be - that the council had a grave space reference number.  I know that  1991 is quite modern and the books may still be in council ownership.  However, the staff were very helpful to me.  I've become a 'dab hand' at working out how to find the graves from the reference number the council gave me!

As an aside I trawlled through the entries for the cemetery at Lonbenton (from the books kept at North Shields library) and found a name that could not possibly be any other than a relative.  When I cross referenced it with a database from the Scottish government site I found that this man was indeed a great uncle.

I don't know the Ulgham area very well but suspect it could be under the care of Castle Morpeth or Wansbeck Council so you could try them first.  I think you will find their number in the phone book under cemeteries and registrars.

Hope this has been of help.

J.A.
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Frances
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Re: Need help with burial details please.
« Reply #2 on: Friday 14 October 05 19:47 UTC (UK) »
Hi Anne,

I thought I would mention that I have looked at the NBI and cannot find a Frances Scott in Ulgham Cemetary  or anywhere Northumberland listed for 1991.

Kind Regards,

Frances Smiley
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Northerngirl
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Re: Ulgham Graveyard.
« Reply #3 on: Monday 17 October 05 19:27 UTC (UK) »
Hi again Anne

I'm sorry you didn't get much luck with your searches.  I still think contacting the local council that administer the graveyard is an option you cannot lose out with.  What is the NBI - Northumberland Burial Index?

It is sad but true that the council have a legal right to use a gravespace that has not been purchased after a 14 year period ( I know this because this is what happened to my grandmother Eliza who died in 1928 when The Depression was beginning and little money was spare for burials.  It is so very sad as there is no marked area to place flowers for her).  If your friend looked this year it is 14 years since 1991.

I hope this has been of use.

Yours J.A.
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SCOTLAND
KBC interests - Murray and Shaw: Blacklock and Kirkland.
DMS interests - as KBC.

ENGLAND
Northumberland
Murray: > 1920 in Longbenton/Forest Hall; Howick 1920's
Elliott: North Nbld 1800's
Straughan/Straphen: North Nbld 1800's and 1910's/1920's Craster.
Henderson(nee Elliott)/Brodie Haydon Bridge 1900's
Bell (nee Elliott) Christon Bank/Embleton 1900's

IRELAND
County Mayo
Mills: Erris Head and Gortmellia
Mullarky: as same
Ginnelly: as same
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