how do i fond out which cemetary they are in?

[charlotteCH]

Reason I asked about occupation was to try to gauge how much money might have been around.

have no idea if in the family of an IR employee there would have been spare cash for a headstone...
When they are ag labs the issue is fairly clear.

Wonder what a permit write did? Nothing hinges on this but it makes me curious.
Sorry none of this takes you any further possette...

charlotte

[possette]

ok thanks for info. I will go around a few churches that i have the names of thanks to the other links given,and just see if im lucky.
 I dont imagine the IR paid wonderful wages myself,but as to what a permit write did..im lost on that one too!

cheers everyone.
Hopefully when im more experienced i can help a newbie

[Nick29]

have no idea if in the family of an IR employee there would have been spare cash for a headstone...

..... or even if he had, whether others would not have had a go at it with an axe 

I'm sure that people had more respect for the dead in those days, even taxmen ! 

[redlion]

hi
you could try liverpool cemetery   web site and the library in william brown street liverpool have
great info
good luck redlion

[Suffolk Mawther]

Hello possett and welcome to Rootschat,

Just a thought - it might be worth looking to see if the churches you are interested in visiting have web sites giving historical information.
Many of the busier parishes had filled their churchyards by the mid 1800s, so Municipal Cemeteries were built in towns - but often villages have extensions to the churchyard, or another plot of land within the village where burials take place.
Best to do your homework before you leave for Southport - visits and churchyard searches go so quickly 

Pat ...

[possette]

well we went up to Prescot church.A lot of it was 3 ft high in nettles,right where the old stones were! But i did look at all the others,with no luck,it did look like someone else had been too,because some flat stones had been wiped free of leaves,like i had to do.

When we tried West Derby church, we found it ok,but there was no graveyard on church site! Its the Croxteth country park,and a local had never seen a graveyard nearby!
 I will have to see if i can do some online searching for next.

[ainslie]

I don't think that anyone has explained that West Derby is not just the village of that name, now a suburb, but also a large Registration District embracing a wide area outside Liverpool proper.
Here is a bit from FreeBMD - there is also a list of townships on that site.
"Registration County : Lancashire.
Created : 1.7.1837.
Abolished : 1.10.1934 (succeeded by Bootle, Crosby, Liverpool North and Prescot districts).
Sub-districts : Bootle; Crosby; Everton; Everton North; Everton North West; Everton; Everton South East; Fazakerley; Kirkdale; Litherland; North Everton; South Everton; Toxteth Park; Walton; Wavertree; West Derby; West Derby Eastern; West Derby Western.
GRO volumes : XX (1837-51); 8b (1852-1934). "
There are dozens of churches, as well as public cemeteries, so the possibilities are enormous unless you can track a death announcement in a local paper (on microfilm at Liverpool RO)