Burial Edith Crossley Cleckheaton

[michelew]

I am asking if anybody has access to obituaries in a newspaper in Cleckheaton.   I am a member of findmypast and also Ancestry and have looked in their newspaper records without any luck.

The lady in question is Edith Crossley - she died we understand in Cleckheaton and her death is registered as Dewsbury district June 1955  age 42.   I am helping her daughter try and find her mother's final resting place if indeed she was buried.   She may be listed as Edith I Crossley.    She was originally from the Hull area (Withernsea) and could be buried there.    I thought if I could find an obituary it may give a clue as to where to start looking.   I am not even sure which paper it would be in if in fact it did get put in a paper.

thanks

[jess5athome]

Hi, I just had a quick look on "Find a Grave" and the lady is not on there, I actually thought she was but the death on that particular record was June 1954 and in Farnworth Greater Manchester.

Frank.

[michelew]

I have looked on Findagrave, Billion graves and Gravestone Photographic Resource

[jess5athome]

I have looked on Findagrave, Billion graves and Gravestone Photographic Resource

Sorry, I was not aware of that.

Frank.

[jess5athome]

Do you have the death certificate? you may be able to narrow the area down a bit if the actual place of death is shown.

Frank.

[michelew]

Hello - I don't have the certificate -  the lady whose mother it is does not have it either - no idea why not.  she had an idea that she might have been buried at Liversedge cemetery at Clough Lane but Kirklees council have checked this and also Whitechapel at Cleckheaton but nothing there.

Regards

[arthurk]

I think the local paper would be the Spenborough Guardian, but it's close enough to Bradford for it to possibly be in the Telegraph and Argus. But unless the lady was particularly well-known for some reason, you're more likely to find a small death notice than a full obituary.

The death certificate could be useful. As well as the place of death (you have Dewsbury district from the index, which includes Cleckheaton), it should give her usual residence, which could be a clue as to where she was buried.

Arthur

[michelew]

We think the address was Towngate, Cleckheaton

[J.R.Ellam]

Hi

You said she was from Hull, have you looked in the Hull papers. You could also try the Dewsbury Reporter.

She could be buried in Birstal or Liversedge Churches.

John