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Part of Birmingham Heritage Week Saturday 17 September in Warstone Lane cemetery in Hockley, Birmingham Jewellery Quarter. 

Assistance with burial plot numbers  for Warstone Lane cemetery and Key Hill cemetery with the Friends of Key Hill Cemetery & Warstone Lane Cemetery.

Birmingham & Midland Society of Genealogy & Heraldry BMSGH also known as Midland Ancestors will also have an information stall in Warstone Lane Cemetery.
 
Key Hill cemetery was formally known as The General cemetery and was Birmingham's first Cemetery and is non-denominational.

Neighbouring Warstone Lane cemetery( Church of England) was Birmingham's second cemetery.

More information here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/find-burial-plot-numbers-with-the-friends-family-history-with-bmsgh-tickets-393520499407?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Friends of Key Hill Cemetery & Warstone Lane Cemetery Est 2004  http://www.fkwc.org/

Midland Ancestors - BMSGH https://midland-ancestors.uk/
 

Hello,
Could anyone enlighten me what P.P.G.A  stand for after a person's name?
These initials are on  headstone of a gentleman who  was in the Ancient Order of Druid's

Hi
 I am looking for the parents and birth of Wilhelm Herman Severing who died in Birmingham, England  in 1895.
I have details of his death, it is his birth, parents and siblings I am seeking.
Wilhelm apparently was a deserter from the German Army.

Paupers graves are paid for by the Parish, usually for a penniless person,  these days paid for by  the local authority.

Some people confuse a Paupers grave with a  Public grave / Common grave.
The family pay for public /common graves at a reduced rate( the deceased person can be buried with unrelated people) .
Even some of the wealthy are buried in public graves with unrelated people and are common in most cemeteries and burial grounds.
Private family graves were more expensive as are the catacombs.

From the 1980's onwards,  volunteers of  Birmingham & Midland Society of Genealogy & Heraldry   (BMSGH) also known as Midland Ancestors  have  scanned and transcribed burial records for
 Key Hill Cemetery,
Warstone Lane Cemetery,
Handsworth Cemetery
 & Witton Cemetery for £5.00 each.

Birmingham Burials on-line was created in 2017 with Birmingham City Council and Bereavement Services (Cemeteries).  The original cost was £20.00 each, now reduced to £10.00.

Alternatively you can view all Birmingham Cemetery records,  for  no charge at Birmingham Archives. As well as Parish burials (church yards).
Although both are places of rest where you look for records  differ.  An Appointment may be necessary at Birmingham Archives in Broad Street.

All three will hold the same information, will give date of burial, may state who officiated service, who purchased plot, depending on year, cemetery & officiant.  if it is a private grave, public grave.     

Cemetery staff are  helpful , but we  have to remember they are there to deal with funerals, new  burials, new headstones, re-opening of graves and rather than family history  another reason why Birmingham Burials online was set up.   
Cemetery staff are working at a reduced capacity during the pandemic.

Friends of Key Hill Cemetery & Warstone Lane Cemetery have an index to for burials for both cemeteries.
Key Hill Cemetery a nondenominational this  resting place was  formally known as the General Cemetery , whilst the cemetery next door Warstone Lane Cemetery is  Church of England.
Warstone Lane cemetery is sometimes referred to as Brookfields Cemetery or The Mint Cemetery ( near the  former Mint company (making money)
Both cemeteries are located in Hockley, Birmingham also known as the Jewellery Quarter.