finding an old grave

[Yvonne Dewhurst]

Is it easy to find an old grave or should say the site as to where it will be at Bedlington cemetery . Been told to look at Woodhorn archives

[dawnsh]

Hi Yvonne

Welcome to Rootschat 

Bedlington Cemetery is managed by Northumberland County Council.

Contact details can be found by clicking on the South East tab.

If you are trying to locate a grave, you should make sure you have the full name of the deceased and the actual date of death from the death cert.

I don't know if the council charge for look-ups, the website doesn't say, but many local authorites do charge.

Hope this helps and I will move this topic to the Northumberland board (you posted in the wrong place) in case you need any more help.

Dawn

[c-side]

Hi Yvonne, welcome from me, too.

It's a while since I was trying to find someone in Bedlington cemetery but I was told by the County Council cemeteries dept. that there are no records for this cemetery - they were destroyed in a fire 

I did find a book at Woodhorn with some details in though at this stage I don't recall what reference or where it was located.

I will have written it down somewhere - if I can find the right notebook.

Christine

[c-side]

I didn't find the notebook but I did find a personal message which, thank goodness, I hadn't deleted.  It was 3 years ago when I last looked at Bedlington cemetery.

There is an old burial register at Woodhorn but you didn't say what dates you were interested in.

Also, are you sure it's the civil cemetery?  Could your burial be old enough to be in the churchyard?

Christine

[shirl100]

There are some gravestones here http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScn=bedlington&CScntry=5&CSst=0 . the parish church does have some older graves but I guess it's not a complete list of those buried there. Northumberland and Durham FHS have a transcript of monumental inscriptions for Bedlington

Shirl