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Re: Trying to find out what happened to my grand-mother's body
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 28 June 20 16:32 BST (UK) »
The address on the death certificate is Swanley, Sutton at Hone.  Have you tried Sutton-at-Hone church.  The burials register is at Medway Archives but is not available online and is noted as unfit for production.  You would need to speak to the Archive once they are open again.
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Re: Trying to find out what happened to my grand-mother's body
« Reply #20 on: Sunday 28 June 20 21:15 BST (UK) »
Thank you so much Bearkat for getting the register.
I looked through it and didn't see an entry for her burial in 1949.
I've emailed the pastor at the Baptist Church in Crockenhill to see if there is an entry for her in the records even though there is no memorial.
I'll see if the Baptist Church or Christchurch in Swanley get back to me with any information and I'll see if there is anything in Phyllis's will when I get it.
I actually took my first journey out, since lockdown, and drove to Crockenhill. I found the graves of Phyllis's father and sister in the Baptist cemetery and put some flowers there.
I wonder if she is buried with them.
Thank you so much everybody
Best wishes
Louise

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Re: Trying to find out what happened to my grand-mother's body
« Reply #21 on: Monday 29 June 20 08:53 BST (UK) »
Have you tried interment.net ?

I stumbled across it last week while looking for something else.
All cemetery’s are listed but not all burials have been recorded yet.
I was amazed to find my Dad listed, who only died two years ago.
It was interesting to read so many names from my childhood which I didn’t realise where there as they have no stone.


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Re: Trying to find out what happened to my grand-mother's body
« Reply #22 on: Monday 29 June 20 17:56 BST (UK) »
Hi everyone

Thank you so much for your help.

I think I've found where Phyllis is buried.

After Gibel suggested that she could have been buried without a headstone, I contacted the Union Baptist Church in Crockenhill and have just had a reply saying that:
 "According to the burial records Phyllis Watson is recorded on the 1949 burials page . It is a little strange as none of the usual details such as 'abode', 'when buried,' 'age' and who officiated at the burial are recorded. But one detail is given and that is 'same grave as 136' which is her father's grave so one can only assume that her remains are interned there"

That must mean that she's in the Baptist graveyard mustn't it as she's in the book even if there are no details?

Thank you so much everyone, as I wouldn't have gone back and asked the Baptist church, after being told that there was no memorial for her in the graveyard, as I didn't know that people were buried without memorials.

I'm so happy as I was very worried that I would never find her grave.
Best wishes Louise

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Re: Trying to find out what happened to my grand-mother's body
« Reply #23 on: Monday 29 June 20 19:23 BST (UK) »
Glad you found her.

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Re: Trying to find out what happened to my grand-mother's body
« Reply #24 on: Monday 29 June 20 19:41 BST (UK) »
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Re: Trying to find out what happened to my grand-mother's body
« Reply #25 on: Tuesday 30 June 20 08:18 BST (UK) »
Help of rootschatters & persistence pays off once again...pleased for you.
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Re: Trying to find out what happened to my grand-mother's body
« Reply #26 on: Tuesday 30 June 20 08:37 BST (UK) »
It was fairly common, in years gone by, to purchase a burial plot suitable for 2 or 4 bodies.
My paternal grandparents share a grave with her parents - 4 bodies in all.

Various other family members are buried with others of their family, too.

Indeed, on my walk into town, I take a short-cut through a churchyard.
I would say that the majority of graves are for more than 1 person.

Whether there is a name added to a memorial stone rather depends on the surviving family - who had to pay for the service.
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