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Title: Hannah Minton
Post by: aceofspades on Thursday 26 January 12 20:56 GMT (UK)
I'm looking for the grave of my paternal grandmother Hannah Minton. She died aged 32yrs in 1918 at Coundmoor but I have no idea where she is buried. Which churchyard would be the closest, I wonder. I suspect she wouldn't have a headstone which will make it more difficult.
Title: Re: Hannah Minton
Post by: david64 on Saturday 28 January 12 22:14 GMT (UK)
She may have been buried in Cound. Try the burial register, held at Shropshire Archives. Transcripts of many Shropshire graves are also at the archives next to the directory shelves.
Title: Re: Hannah Minton
Post by: aceofspades on Sunday 29 January 12 15:35 GMT (UK)
Thanks for that, I'll give it a try.
Title: Re: Hannah Minton
Post by: pete edwards on Sunday 29 January 12 15:57 GMT (UK)
Hi there

My lot comes from Coundmoor, The Church is St Peters, My lot would have been rubbing shoulders with your lot,


Welcome aboard to a little Hamlet in 1800

PETE :)
Title: Re: Hannah Minton
Post by: aceofspades on Monday 30 January 12 13:28 GMT (UK)
Hi there

My lot comes from Coundmoor, The Church is St Peters, My lot would have been rubbing shoulders with your lot,


Welcome aboard to a little Hamlet in 1800

PETE :)

Thanks for that, it sounds a nice little place, I'll try and visit this summer.  :)
Title: Re: Hannah Minton
Post by: pete edwards on Tuesday 31 January 12 17:55 GMT (UK)
Hi There, :)

I will be going into town tomorow and if I get time I will look into your Hannah in the archives for you, As you may well know Coundmoor is a tiny place, most people think its the same place as Cound, its not, its about a mile away,


See what I can find

Pete :) :)
Title: Re: Hannah Minton
Post by: aceofspades on Tuesday 31 January 12 18:26 GMT (UK)
You're very kind, thanks, that'd be great.  ;D
Title: Re: Hannah Minton
Post by: aceofspades on Tuesday 27 October 15 16:42 GMT (UK)
It was over three years ago i enquired about my grandmothers burial place and i still havent found it. Apparantly, shropshire archives havent got burial records for Cound after 1899 and they haven't got any for Acton Burnell. I think these are the most likely places she would be but now don't know where I'd find this information.  Any thoughts or observations would be appreciated.
Title: Re: Hannah Minton
Post by: lizdb on Tuesday 27 October 15 17:53 GMT (UK)
A quick google suggests the nearest municipal cemetery is Market Drayton. If the churchyards were full (as many were by 1918, and the fact that the records cease at 1899 suggests this) then burials would be in a cemetery.
Title: Re: Hannah Minton
Post by: aceofspades on Tuesday 27 October 15 20:52 GMT (UK)
We have Shropshire Family History Society booklets of monumental/memorial inscriptions for both these churchyards and there are burials well after 1918, but as i dont think she would have had a memorial stone, i need to find records but not sure where to go next. Shropshire archives werent able to help me either.
Title: Re: Hannah Minton
Post by: lizdb on Wednesday 28 October 15 09:08 GMT (UK)
Yes, there will be later burials, in that there will be second burials in two-person graves. But no new graves after a certain point in time.
Title: Re: Hannah Minton
Post by: aceofspades on Thursday 29 October 15 11:16 GMT (UK)
Just to update this thread, I emailed the vicar at Cound church, who passed on my query to the church warden. She very kindly checked the records and found Hannah was buried at Cound church on 30th October 1918. Success at last.  Thanks to anyone who has tried to help in the past.
Title: Re: Hannah Minton
Post by: lizdb on Thursday 29 October 15 11:26 GMT (UK)
Very pleased you found it!