burials in essex.

[Jolee]

Burials in Henham are only available on film at Essex Archives

[peggysmum]

Yes the records office told me that, it is one of the things i shall look at. But i spoke a very nice lady who runs the henham history site and she had a search for me and couldnt find any of them.

[lizdb]

Have you actually checked Bp Stortford PR's?
I woud have thought that would be the first move, before thinking about areas where they used to live?

[peggysmum]

Yes i have done that. Ive been trying to find them for 2 yrs now ive tried various things and am not finding them.

[lizdb]

Do any records for Haymeads survive at the (Herts) Local record office? If he died there, then they may have recorded where he was buried.

[carol8353]

Yes i have done that. Ive been trying to find them for 2 yrs now ive tried various things and am not finding them.

That sounds like the problem's I've been having for more than 10 years to try and find where my great grandma is buried in London.

I've started to think they dug a hole in the back garden and shoved her in it !!!

Carol

[LizzieL]

If he died in BS in 1929, the most likely place for burial would be BS Cemetery. When I was looking for ancestors there a few years ago, HALS didn't have the records. I had to go to the local council offices and they dug out the record books. I think they have them going back to the cemeteries beginnings in the mid 1850s. I was looking for several burials between 1861 and 1925, so had to go through several books.
It would be worth contacting both the town Council and HALS, in case the older books have now been deposited with them.

[peggysmum]

I did ring herts and they say no he isint buried in herts. cant quite remember now if they said they had those records as it was a couple of yrs ago. I will probably go there myself and have a look at some point as perhaps it was just missed.
Lizzie i think maybe yes i need to go and look myself, I did contact them as i say but maybe it was just missed.
carol you say that in jest but i do know that for a long time, gypsies did wayside burials, i did think maybe that was the answer, but im told that they had stopped doing them by the 1920s. IM beginning to wander. I know most of there kids were still travelers, travelling so maybe they had there own ideas, but it could have been down to Amelia the daughter who Comfort was living with in Broxted. She had settled so maybe she made all the arrangements.