Mere Knoll Cemetery, SUNDERLAND

[Tickettyboo]

Thanks for the info. Is it possible to obtain the ward and grave numbers online?

Not sure it would give you the Ward number, but this page may be helpful
http://www.durham-images.org/public/cemeteries/parrec.html
Scroll down to Mere Knolls, follow the 'records'  link and then choose the first two letters of the surname from the grid.


-oops , I looked at the lists.
It appears to give the register number rather than a grave number, but try emailing the local studies library to see if they can give you the ward/grave details from the register entry number and date?

http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5572  There is an email address on that page.

Boo

[MontyW57]

Thanks Tickettyboo.

The Durham images website is where I originally found where my relative was buried and I have contacted the Sunderland local studies centre in order to find out the grave number but unfortunately the copy of the burial record that they sent to me did not contain any grave number information. It has an entry number and a "No of grant" number but no grave number unless I am looking in the wrong place.

Pete

[Wearsider]

Mere Knolls Cemetery was set up by the Monkwearmouth and Southwick Burial Board who did not use 'Ward Numbers' as we now know them.  They used only 'burial numbers'.  When the running of the cemetery was taken over by Sunderland Corporation Ward Numbers were introduced.

Therefore the early registers probably won't include Ward Numbers.
 
Wearsider.

[stanmapstone]

Mere Knolls Cemetery was set up by the Monkwearmouth and Southwick Burial Board

     
It seems that Monkwearmouth Cemetery, Mere Knolls, which was opened in 1856, was set up by the Monkwearmouth Burial Board, a report in the Sunderland Echo Thursday 03 March 1881 states that
Southwick Local Board.
Propsed Cemetery for Southwick
"......That application be made to the Monkwearmouth Burial Board for information as to the terms on which that Board would consent to Southwick township being added to their district for burial puposes......"
Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Thursday 03 March 1881

[Wearsider]

Thanks Stan for the correction, my file on Mere Knolls Cemetery is not to hand at the moment and my memory let me down.

Wearsider.

[MontyW57]

Alan,

I was able to contact the Sunderland local studies centre and they were kind enough to let me know the grave number.
So the info that I have from the burial record is :-

Caroline Dennis, age 54, buried on 18th June, 1877
Grave number - 1529

[Wearsider]

I believe that the Sunderland Local Studies Library have given you all the information that they have.  Without the Ward Number the problem is where to look for the grave. 

Reference to a burial plan would help but I have not found any reference to plans being available.

Wearsider.

[MontyW57]

Are you saying that going to the cemetary and giving the grave number would not produce the location of the grave? Would not the cemetary staff be able to locate the grave with just the number?
This is all the info that was written in the records. There are no ward numbers.

[Wearsider]

There are not normally cemetery staff at Mere Knolls who you can make enquiries to.  Some years ago there used to be someone there on occasions and I was once able to see a burial plan for Ward 13 but I got the impression that there were no plans for the earlier wards as ward numbers were only introduced when the cemetery was taken over by Sunderland Corporation.

An enquiry to the Cemeteries Department may still be worth while in case they do have other information available.

Wearsider.