Bournemouth - Russian/Serbian burial

[julkes]

We are looking fopr the burial location of the Russian-Serbian diplomat Gabriel Wesselitsky-Bojidarovich (1838-before 2.09.1930) (Vesselitsky).

He died in Bournemouth but according to the council,

"Not in the cemeteries. He may have been buried in a local parish church but I regret we do not keep records for those. "

Any help would be appreciated

[CaroleW]

This is his death reg - name and birthyear slightly different

Gabriel De Wesselitsky aged 89 September qtr 1930   Bournemouth  Volume 2b
Page 778

[nanny jan]

Hi,

At that time the Bournemouth registration district covered Bournemouth, Christchurch, Highcliffe, Holdenhurst, Hurn and Sopley;  a copy of his death certificate,  which should show his home address, might give an idea which area to search.


Nanny Jan

[julkes]

Thank you!

May be we can contact the local parishes before ordering a death cert - they became quite pricy.

We are very grateful for this lead

Regards

Julia&Keld

[RRYFS]

Had you thought whether he would have been Orthodox - I think they took Orthodox burials up to somewhere in Surrey in the 1960s, so he may well not have been buried in the Bournemouth area.

[julkes]

Thank you for your reply.

We know about quite a few Orthodox buried in Bournemouth, I believe it should not be a problem.
Place in Surrey is most probably Brookwood - there is no chance to get any information from them:(((

[RRYFS]

I had a look at the Bournemouth Echo archives in Bournemouth Library today. I did July, August and the first week of September, looking for a Death notice, but no joy I'm afraid. It is possible that other papers were offering the same service in 1930, but I ran out of time to explore anything else. My guess is that you'll need a certificate to progress, unless you can find burial records anywhere. I also asked at the Dorset FHS last week, and they tend to work to the old county boundaries when Bournemouth was in Hampshire, so have no transcriptions.

Richard

[julkes]

Richard

thank you for that, at least we can exclude looking thru those papers...

[julkes]

I think this thread now can be marked as completed.
We found the answerr to our original question here:
http://www.history-notes.co.uk/Family%20History/Gab.html - the website founded by his descendants.