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Another line of approach would be to search local newspapers for December 1989.  There may be a death announcement which mentions church/chapel of funeral and place of subsequent burial/cremation.

Also, if William had a telephone, you might be able to find where he had lived from a phone directory for the 1980s.  Having said that, it does not follow that he would have been buried in a local graveyard or cemetery.  People (or their cremated remains) are sometimes interred in an existing family grave in the area where the family lived a generation earlier.

Sam.

12 years ago I retired and moved to Penistone in South Yorkshire.  I at last had time to research a branch of my family that had emigrated to New South Wales in the 1820s.  I also offered to do look-ups in the local library on behalf of overseas and other distant researchers.  I noticed in the archives a bundle of the local newspaper from the nineteenth century.  It had the snappy title of 'The Penistone, Stocksbridge, Hoyland and Chapeltown Express incorporating the Wadsley, Ecclesfield, Oughtibridge, Deepcar and Thurlstone Advertiser.'  Among these newspapers for several years was one stray, a single copy of 'The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser' for 27 June 1835.  It mentioned the man one of the girls in the family I was researching married and also Annandale House, Sydney, where the family had previously lived.  If I had read the names a year earlier they would have meant nothing to me.

Sam.

John Campbell Fo(r)ster, 9 year old scholar, was living at 56 Bateman Street, Litchurch, Derby in 1891 with grandparents William Booth 71 and Mary F Booth 61.

In 1901 he was living with two uncles and two aunts, Herbert, Frank, Mary and Ada Booth, at 41 Regent Street, Derby.

Sam

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