** Completed - Thank you** Manchester - Southern Cemetary Grave Number Query

[Leeeeeese]

Hi,

Just a quick query. I have many ancestors buried in Southern Cemetary, but, one of them has a grave number/reference I haven't seen before. It is P/628a. Does anyone know what the significance of the 'a' is?

Thank you
Leeeeeese

[stevieuk]

Its possible that an additional grave was fitted in between 628 & 629.

Sometimes an object, a wall, small tree, hedge or a path is present when laying out graves &  after the original numbering sometime later on it has been removed to create additional graves in the middle of the original graves so you may find XXXa as a number, the likely way to tell would be to look at the graves either side the dates of burial should be a lot older. Its much easier to add an "a" than an odd out of sequence number & makes it simpler to locate a grave number.

There may be other reasons, but the above is the most obvious.

Regards.

Steve

[Leeeeeese]

Steve

Thank you for the response...your explanation sounds plausible. Hadn't thought of additional graves being added.

At some point I'll have a look at the surrounding graves.

Thanks again

Lisa