burials in essex.

[peggysmum]

Hello all. I wander if someone might be able to help and advise me. My 3 xx ggs are missing . I can not find there burials and i really dont know what to do next in my search for them. Alfred Loveridge died in 1929 in haymeads Bishop storford. But he and his mrs had been living in Henham, essex for a number of years by that point. They were romanies but had settled around the turn of the century. 3 of there daughter married local Henham men.
I have contacted the records office and they have no record of alfred at all. So i wandered if his family brought him back into essex. His partner Comfort Parker after he died moved up the road to Broxted to live with one of her daughters. She then died in the people's home, saffron walden in 1931. Again i have contacted them and the records office and they have no records for either of them. I have tried the seax records and can find nothing. Only Eliza loveridge in 1961 there daughter in law. So im wandering what i can try next.
I am planning on a trip to the records office in chelmsford to see if i can find anything but i need a plan. So i guess i need to see what churches around the area of Henham going out to saffron w, Bishops s and Broxted where still taking burials at that time. So does anyone know where i might find such information. what else could i try in my search please.
any suggestions gratefully received thankyou Tracey

[carol8353]

When you say you have contacted the records office but they have no record of Alfred,do you just mean they don't know where he's buried?

Deaths Mar 1929

Loveridge    Alfred   age  75    B.Stortford    3a   1407   

[peggysmum]

Yes thats right. I have both his and comforts death certificates so i know where they died and when, i just cant find where they are buried. I suppose they could be in a paupers grave like there son Israel but i was still able to find where he was buried.

[lizdb]

Isnt Bishop Stortford in Hertfordshire?

(Good to see you back, Carol!)

[peggysmum]

Yes Bishop storford is in Herts but it is just over the border from Henham. I guess Haymeads was the nearest that could take him. So as i say i dont know if they buried him in Herts or took him home to Essex. My plan was to search Essex first before i search Herts. They must have been buried somewhere they were living in a house and not a bender tent by that point.

[suffolk*sue]

Any chance they could have been cremated?

[lizdb]

Looks as if Haymeads was the workhouse.
I would imagine Haymeads burials were all in the local parish - usually there is a Church that takes all the workhouse burials. Or just very occasionally a workhouse will have its own burial ground, though that would be a lot earlier than 1929.

[peggysmum]

I hope not but i guess that would explain not finding anything. Am not sure though if that was something romanies would do. I would have to look into that one..
I understand that by 1929 Haymeads had become a kind of cottage hospital. there daughter rose (rosina) bentley died there on christmas day 1923 as she had cancer poor woman, so i guess she was having care of some sort.

[lizdb]

See

http://www.stortfordhistory.co.uk/guide10/union-workhouse/

Scroll down to bottom of page. Still referred to as Workhouse in 1929.

Similar info here:-
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/BishopsStortford/