Info on a distant relitive

[Cybiko]

Hello me again.

I am after any info i can gather on a
Miss Ivy Florence May Savage
Born ABT 1905 Bletchingley, stMary, Surry, England
Died 1931 New Haven
Father Alfred Savage
Mother Florence Bartlett Ware

Worked as a domestic servant in the New haven / Piddinghoe area. I spent last Saterday afternoon looking in Piddinghoe cemetery but did not finf anything. I plane to vist Newhaven town Cemetery and seaford cemetery on church lane where she lived as a young child.
Ray
PS. I hope this one meets the rules

[KGarrad]

Just about the only information you are likely to find is on the 1911 census?
She didn't live long enough to appear on the 1939 National Register.

It wasn't until 1928 that women under the age of 30 got the vote, so she won't appear on Electoral Registers.

[Cybiko]

Thanks for that info it was all stuff i did not no about.  I don't seem to be able to find anything about domestic servants and where they did there service's.
She was the sister of my mother mum. My only other option i guess is to get a copy of the death cert. would that say where she is laid to rest?

Ray

[groom]

I doubt if there is much information about domestic servants as a lot of young women at that time went into service. Some lived in and others lived at home, going to work every day.

My only other option i guess is to get a copy of the death cert.

That is your best option, although it won't tell you where she is buried.  Unless the family were well off, and if she was a servant, they probably weren't, there may not be a headstone, so you won't find her in the cemeteries. Your only other hope is the Parish records which may show the burial.

Were her parents or any family still living in Bletchingley when she died? If so, her body may have been taken back there for burial, especially if there was a family grave.

[Cybiko]

Her family lived at 8 church lane Seaford ,Sussex. Thats why i thought of looking at that cemetery.
Her father landed up in a work house and left all belongings to his wife (Ivy's Mother)
Ray

[groom]

Sounds as if that is where she will be rather than Newhaven or Piddinghoe. It also sounds as if she may be in a common grave and therefore there probably won't be a headstone. It might be worth contacting Lewes council and asking if they have records of burials. As you have the year and quarter (March) that she died it shouldn't be too hard for them to look up.


http://www.lewes.gov.uk/community/284.asp

[rosie99]

Her family lived at 8 church lane Seaford ,Sussex.

Have you checked that they are living there in 1939     

Have you located her parents grave

[tup1]

Have you checked in the local library to see if it was reported in the paper or they might have microfiche or microfilm of b.m.d in the area.