Help with locating my Great Aunts grave

[Gardner95x]

Hi guys hope everyone's staying safe.

I am currently trying to find my Grandads sisters grave who died when she was a baby.

I have her death certificate that I ordered off Ancestry and am currently waiting on her birth certificate too.

The problem I have is I am unsure if she would of been buried or not or if it would be an unmarked grave? She died May 1932 at 11 weeks old and she isn't at my local cemetery with my Grandads parents and brother so was there a different process for babies back in the 1930s? Were they taken away?

Hope someone can help
Jack

[frostyknight]

I can't help with your query. But if you want certificates from England/Wales or Ireland, it is much cheaper to obtain them directly from the relevant General Register Office rather than ordering through Ancestry or any other company.

Best of luck with your research.

[nanny jan]

Welcome to Rootschat. 


Link for ordering England/Wales certificates: 

www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certifcates

You need to register (free).

[LizzieL]

Is the cemetery you checked, the nearest one to where the family were living when the baby died? Have you checked the cemetery records or just headstones?
My OH's great grandparents had two children who died in infancy, but they do not appear on the headstones in the cemetery where the rest of the family are buried. However when we contacted the cemetery authorities, they had records of the burials of these two babies in the group of plots where we were looking, but the graves are not marked.

[Gardner95x]

I can't help with your query. But if you want certificates from England/Wales or Ireland, it is much cheaper to obtain them directly from the relevant General Register Office rather than ordering through Ancestry or any other company.

Best of luck with your research.

Hi,

Okay thanks for the help but I am just wondering whether she'd be buried or not or perhaps in an unmarked grave?

[Girl Guide]

As Lizzie has said, did you check the burial records for that cemetery?  Have you got in touch with the cemetery to ask if they have any record of your great aunt?

There have been cases where babies were buried with a stranger who happened to have died at a similar time.  I'm not suggesting that is what happened to your great aunt but it is worth bearing that possibility in mind.

[Gardner95x]

Hi sorry been at work, will have to double check with the cemetery, was up there a few weeks ago to look my Grandads parents grave and his brother but no sign of hers.

She might not even be in that one as we have a couple where I live so will have to ask around

I imagine she was buried just a case of finding her!

[Tickettyboo]

If you can tell us the name, date of death from the certificate and where this baby died it 'may' help to find the burial

Boo