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I wonder if someone would know what happened to the bodies of those buried in Rainhill Hospital after it closed down.  I have been told that if you died there you were buried there.  Is that true?  I am trying to trace my friends grandmother who died in 1957.  My friend has all of her medical records and she was told that her grandmothers body was moved.  Having done some research, I read that if you died in Rainhill you were buried in St Helens Cemetery, and I have found a lady of the same name but she was cremated in 1985.  The lady is called Margaret Ritson. Would it be possible for any bodies later exhumed to be be cremated.

Any help and advice would be very much appreciated.

Kind regards.

Could someone brighten this photo up for me please.  It was taken on a phone and I don't have the original.  It is my nan with her grandchildren.

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I wonder if anybody could help me trace my great grand uncle, who is driving me mad, as he appears to disappear.  He was born in Liverpool on the 1 September 1876.  I have found his baptism record, where he was baptized in St Patrick church.  His baptism record has his father as  William Murphy and his mother as Mary Jane Burgess, but her name was Mary Jane Burden.  I have found him on the 1881 and 1891 census as living with his grandparents, Frank and Ann Murphy.  Had he died in Liverpool he would have had a catholic burial and it would have been recorded, but I can't find it, and had he married and stayed in the same area, again it would have been in the same Parish.  However, presuming he may have moved away and got married, surely his marriage banns would show up, but he seems to have disappeared without trace.  I would be grateful if anybody could take a look for me to see if they can find anything about him please.  Thank you.

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I have recently discovered that a distant cousin of mine was in the Navy and lost at sea during WW2.  I have searched for him on A....... but there are others with the same name and wondered how I could find out information on him.  His name was Frank Murphy and his parents were frank Murphy and Margaret Callaghan born Liverpool.

I would appreciate some advice please.

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I wonder if somebody could help me please.  I am trying to find out who lived at an address in 1949.  According to a family members birth certificate, he was born in 46 Wonsy or Wansy Street in Chelmsford, Essex.  Is there a way of finding out other occupants at that address please.

Thank you.