Trying to find a public? grave

[7Kez8]

Hi there

I'm new to this site so I hope I am posting in the correct place.

I am currently trying to find a burial place for my great grandmother, her name was Matilda Gaskell (previously Woodacre and previous to that Whitworth) and she was originally born in Wigan, later lived in Newton in Makerfield and finally in Haydock so always in Lancashire. However she passed away in 1926 at the age of 51, in what was then the workhouse in Warrington.

I have tried the online records offices of St Helens, Warrington and Wigan but can't find a record for her burial (her husband passed three years later and is in a public grave, so I assume she is too, somewhere). I have also contacted Warrington records office but they told me that all the workhouse records were destroyed, to save future embarrassments, so I am starting to think I am looking for something I will never find.   

I think I have found most of Matilda's history but I really would love to find her burial place if I could as I imagine no one has ever managed to go to it. Is there anything else I could try?

Thanks in advance for your help

[philipsearching]

Greetings, and a warm welcome to Rootschat.

I tried the usual websites (FindAGrave, FamilySearch and so on) but found nothing.

It could be worth trying the Warrington History Society http://warringtonhistorysociety.uk/ - they have a Q&A option for you to e-mail a question to them.  Something along the lines of "where would a person who died in Warrington workhouse in 1926 be likely to be buried" with details of Matilda might get an answer.

All the best
Philip

[7Kez8]

Thank you very much for your reply Philip, I have sent them an email so will keep my fingers crossed for good news

[philipsearching]

Thank you very much for your reply Philip, I have sent them an email so will keep my fingers crossed for good news

Fingers crossed here too.  Do let us know if you get a result.  (If there is a likely cemetery/churchyard we might find a burial record)

Philip

[dawnsh]

Have you contacted the cemetery office where her husband is buried and ask them to check their records for her?

They may be willing to help if you have her exact date of death.

[Pwtgb]

Warrington Borough Council do a very useful burial search website http://burialrecords.warrington.gov.uk/GenSearch.aspx
But I have been unable to find Matilda GASKELL on it even when trying different spellings.
I suggest you need to be looking at adjacent authority cemeteries.

Regards,

Paul