To all listers,
In connection with my ex servicemans database I regularly visit the few cemeteries that come under control of the PCC and have at last worked out how the graves are numbered for plots P - X and for Y and Z at Llanion. For example Plot T starts at the Top N.E. corner and increases in number going west ending in the highest number S.W. corner, one must ignore the very narrow paths that now bisect the plots and are not shown on the cemetery map.
Numbers in plots A To H have absolutely no relationship to the numbers given in the PCC listing incredible but true. A to H have now, well early 20th century, been moved into a circular feature, back to back in 4 quadrants. Go to google maps satellite mode and look at the cemetery you will see what I refer to. If you then visit and look at the numbers where visible on the edge of the headstones, it can be seen there is no logical sequence F numbered are mixed with A numbered are mixed with H numbers, so if you have a headstone listed in A to H the earlist part of the cemetery it is a long round walk and just hope you find what you require.
PCC informed me that Plot Y is to the east of Plot X, its not, Plot Y runs to the west of plots P, S, and V by the wall that separates this side of the cemetery from Plots M and N which lie to the east of the circular laid out headstones. Plot Z runs to the east of plots R, U and X.
Now the main item of posting. People commemorated on headstones but not buried in the grave are NOT listed on the PCC database, another way of putting it is that names added to headstones without any burial in the plot are not listed. A hint that a name is not PCC listed can be gained from the phrase “also in memory of”.
Remember this cemetery and all out of town other cemeteries like City Rd H’west, only began in the 1860's after the Government decreed that churchyard burials where becoming a health hazard in “large” locations, and that new combined cemeteries must be located outside of towns.
What of Cremations ~ I would refer you to ;
http://sites.bookofremembrance.eu/index.php?task=main&site=parcgwynParc Gwyn is relatively new the early third of the 20th century cremations appear to have taken place at Pontypridd and Morristion.
The above said, Pembs Cty Council are one of the few that give us free access to their burial/cremation listings and the assistance of the staff by either email or telephone is of the highest order.
If anyone requires a jpeg of the Monkton, Llanion, or St Michaels cemetery map let me know or with the agreement of the administrator I can post to this part of the forum. The jpegs I have where taken by me in public locations.
I do visit in the course of my research most churchyards and cemeteries so if you know of a headstone and require a photo, I can try to fit it in for you during one of my visits.
Rgds
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