I have a receipt for a burial at a Zion Cemetry The address was Holme Lane, Tong, Bradford, Yorkshire.
What does Zion mean and are there any old maps that I could look at, with this burial place on?
Hello
This is a Congregational Chapel. Many of the older Congregational Chapels were originally Independent Chapels and having a variety of names.
The Bradford Daily Telegraph, Thursday 18th November 1897
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Lidget Green Congrgational Chapel.- On Tuesday the members of the Lidget Green Congregational Chapel had a tea and meeting to take leave of their former pastor, Mr Fred Robinson, who has commenced his labours at Holme Lane, Tong." ...
They presented him with 18 volumes of books
and Mrs Robinson with a silver coffee pot with inscribed initial.
You will find Lidget Green and a Holme Lane Chapel, Tong Street, Tong, both under "Congregational Churches and Chapels", in the link ...
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Bradford/BradfordChurches1927Worth bearing in mind that if a Chapel was built a long time beforehand, there may also be the possibility that a burial ground was separate, or part of a burial ground was separate from a chapel?
Many of the 18th Century and early 19th Century Independent Chapels had become Congregational Chapels and over time some Congregational Chapels were closed and amalgamated and more recently came under the umbrella of the United Reformed Church (URC) HQ, who seemed to have acquired some Registers of these former Chapels.
If no Register locally at the Chapel and not at the relevant Yorkshire Archives or University Special Collections Library and you have checked these, then it might be worth emailing the URC Library / Archive, your receipt for their comments.
Out of interest, is the receipt dated and who signed it?
Mark