Welford Road Cemetery

[Mike from Leicester]

Greeting’s Durham & Welcome to the Leicestershire Boards.....
 
This is the message I sent to anther Roots chatter regarding the burials of
 The Carpenters :~

St: Margaret’s Parish Church.

1828.
Parish Burial Register Entry No’. 1511.

Ann Carpenter.
Last abode. …Leicester.
1st; May.
Aged. …45.

Welford Road Civic Cemetery.

Plot No’. U. R. 2025.

CARPENTER William 1863 Jan 9 Aged. 71
Crab Street Saint Margaret 11833 Coroner's Warrant

CARPENTER Elizabeth 1884 Nov 24 82 Nichols Street Saint George 54375

COOPER William Henry 1889 Apr 24 6mths
Upper Kent Street Saint George 63821

COLLINS Gladys Hilda 1896 Apr 22 1 Mount Road Saint George 78794

COLLINS Mary 1897 Apr 7 34
Mount Road Leicester 80818 [Plot Section Recorded As "R1"]

WHITCRAFT Adam 1919 Jan 27 74 Swain Street Leicester 106644


MIKE. ….

[deegray]

Fabulous! thank you both for such a prompt reply
Diana

[Kera]

I have found on the National Burial Index that 2 of my relatives were buried at Welford Road Cemetery.

They are:-
Amos Green.  Burial date - Dec 1884.  Age - 47
Mary Green.  Burial date - 22 Sep 1885.  Age - 38

I would be very grateful if anyone can help me find their graves.

Thanks,
Kera.

[willsy]

Here you go

Plot I   638   Consecrated   all in grave
BAUM   JOHN HENRY SMITH   1853   JAN   13   5MTHS   WHITE HORSE YARD FLEET STREET   SAINT MARGARET      CORONER'S WARRANT

WOOD   JOHN HENRY   1878   JAN   29   6MTHS   BIRSTALL STREET   SAINT MARGARET   

WOOD   JOHN   1878   FEB   15   age 27   BIRSTALL STREET   SAINT MARGARET      

WOOD   ELIZABETH   1878   JUL   29   age 51   CROWN STREET   SAINT MARY      

GREEN   AMOS   1884   DEC   8   age 47   HUMBERSTONE ROAD   SAINT GEORGE      

GREEN   MARY   1885   SEP   22   age 38   UPPER CONDUIT STREET   SAINT MARGARET   

HEAP   ELLEN   1900   DEC   17   age 41   THE WORKHOUSE   LEICESTER   45219   

[Kera]

Thank you so much for your help Willsy, I really do appreciate it.

Kera

[willsy]

Glad I could help

[Jaxyfone]

Welford Road Cemetery has an active friends group and a new-ish visitor centre. The volunteers at the visitor centre have a full record of all burials there, including maps and they are a very helpful bunch. If they have enough staff available they'll even take you to where the grave is. Website here: http://www.fowrcl.org.uk/

However ... as with a lot of older cemeteries, many gravestones and memorials have had to be repositioned or removed completely for health and safety reasons. We went last year to find that my husband's family's small memorial stone had been moved to an adjacent grave and another had disappeared completely.

Nevertheless it's worth visiting for its own sake. Lots of wildlife and some of the 'occupants' have fascinating stories.

[Thornwood]

I have ancestors in this cemetery and I was able to find their plot by visiting. We assume that we will find a headstone but forget that many families just could not afford one. I spoke to the cemetery workers, they have a hut ( do not go to the house, it is privately owned and nothing to do with the cemetery) where there is a large filing cabinet with files of burials in alphabetical order and the plot number.  You could also visit Oadby records office where this information is held.
Thornwood