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Please could someone offer an explanation on the term 'placement" in relation to a record I've found for a family grave.

I am looking at records of four extended family members buried at Boroondara General Cemetery, the burial date of two of them is recorded as burial and the burial dates fit with their dates of death. The other two are recorded as placement, one died in April 1959 and the burial record says placement 6 April 1961, the other died December 1983 and placement 26 Jan 1984.

The only explanation I have come up with is placement means ashes placed in the grave. Am I on the right track and is there a way of confirming this if I am.

Many thanks.

 

Could someone suggest what a Victorian place name abbreviated to Epra might mean, it doesn't appear on the two sites in the Vic Resources section.

Maggiemae

Amelia Pearson married William Briggs in Nottinghamshire in 1838. I have the birth certificate of their daughter Sarah Ann born 1840, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, William and daughter Sarah appear in the 1841 census in Mansfield. Amelia is not with them and I cannot find death record for Amelia or a likely candidate for in the 1841 census.

William Briggs seems to disappear after 1841 and daughter Sarah is with her fathers mother (another Sarah) and his sisters in Traffic Street Derby in both the 1851 & 1861 census.

The only reference after to 1841 for William is a notice in the Derby Mercury - Suddenly in London on 28th February, Mr William Briggs of Traffic Street Derby in the 47th year of his age. If this is the William I'm looking where is he in 1851 and 1861 and what became of wife Amelia?

I believe it's likely William was born in Yorkshire about 1815, the son of William and Sarah Briggs,  His occupation in 1841 was Coach Maker and is again given as Coach Maker on daughter Sarah Anne's 1863 marriage certificate. Sarah married in Hull, Yorkshire.

Thanks for reading and if you can help, suggest or advise me I'd be a very happy Maggiemae. 

I'm out of ideas for locating a Jones family in the 1841 census and calling for help in finding them, please don't all groan at once  .

Thomas Jones was born West Kirby, Cheshire abt. 1807 and his spouse Lydia Rowland was born and baptised in West Kirby, Cheshire in 1801. They married in West Kirby in 1829, their children were ......

William 1830
Sarah 1831
Elizabeth 1833
Thomas 1838
Ann 1840
John 1842

All the children were born and baptised in West Kirby and the family are in West Kirby in both the 1851 and 1861 census. I have tried all my usual tricks for finding a lost family but this Jones lot have completely eluded me in the 1841 census.

Any help to find this Jones family would very much appreciated.

Maggiemae

I have several records where single mothers appear to have named their illegitimate child after her mother, father or the father of the child.
 
Has anyone else found a pattern for the naming illegitimate children?

I have baptism record for an illegitmate child 1830, the mother is described as a single woman and there no mention of the father. The child was named John, the woman's father was William and she married a man called Matthew so I am wondering if perhaps the name John could the name of the child's father's.

This child was buried in 1832 with Matthew's surname.

Maggiemae