Death in Shoreditch 1893

[psearing]

Hi all

I have a Grt Grt Grandmother (Mary Ann Broadway Willis formally Searing) who died in 1893 at Shoreditch I am not able to locate here burial location so would anybody have any idea where a burial would be for this area ie a possible cemetery which may have been used at this time.

her burial is registered in Shoreditch

many thanks

Paul

[louisa maud]

According to my Cliff Webb Greater London Cemeteries and Crematoria it states that
Shoreditch, Hackney and Stoke Newington all com under the authority of
Hackney
 BUT she might well have died in Shoreditch area but have been buried elsewhere
For some peculia reason I am not able to access Rose Lipman Library which comes under Hackney Archives

Louisa Maud

Abney Park from 1840-1978

Louisa Maud

[dawnsh]

If you don't find what you're looking for, my co-moderator Valda has written an excellent guide to London burials here

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,403492.0.html

Dawn

[Jeuel]

By the late 1800s people were often buried quite a way away from their homes due to pressure on space in burial grounds.  One of my relatives who died in Stoke Newington was buried in Chingford Cemetery and another in Southgate.

[psearing]

many thanks

I know that she may have been buried at a distant cemetery but would there have been one that was more used in the vicinity, I had relatives who died in Southwarlk that had be buried at Nunhead cemetery.

thanks to all

[Valda]

Hi

The guide Dawn has given you the link for, goes through each of London's civic cemeteries giving dates and links. Each cemetery is placed under whichever modern London borough it is currently located in. The coverage of these modern London boroughs is also explained - which old district now comes under which modern borough. Shoreditch is currently in the borough of Hackney which only has one cemetery within its borders and which has indexes online (Abney Park - all links in the guide). There are links in the guide which will help you find adjacent boroughs to Hackney. Knowing the address she died at would help because you can track the nearest cemeteries from there - Tower Hamlets for instance.

She died in the civil registration district of Shoreditch which in 1893 covered all these areas

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/shoreditch.html

So though Shoreditch is now in the London borough of Hackney, Bethnal Green for instance is in the London borough of Tower Hamlets. You can track in the guide the other areas but knowing her precise address would be much better.

Was she the first to die in her family or did her husband die before her? If so where were they living at the time? Would she be buried with him? Was it the sort of family that would have been able to afford private graves? If she was more likely to have been buried by the poor law union than cemeteries vied for these sort of institutions business and undercut each other for the trade. Workhouses across London may have buried as far away as Brookwood cemetery in Surrey, which was also the choice of many Londoners with its regular train service to the cemetery. All this sort of information is in the guide which begins with churchyard burials and progresses through to civic cemteries.


Regards

Valda

[psearing]

Hi Valda

Mary Ann was originally married to William Searing he died in 1871 at Cheshunt, She then re-married Thomas Willis in 1876 I have located and visited the grave site for William Searing her first spouse (my Grt Grt Ganfather)

It seems strange that I can locate her burial place of Thomas Willis as he outlived her, it could be he is buried with her butits proving hard.

on the last Census 1881 she and Thomas Willis were living at Wenlock street South Hackney  she died in 1893 so I would feel that she would have died at that location.

many thanks

Paul

[louisa maud]

Does that mean that you don't actually have the death cert which would give you information

Louisa Maud

[psearing]

I only have details as listed on the death registration at this time and that she died shoreditch 1893.

I am going to obtain her death certificate this week.

regards

Paul