I few years ago I was shown one of the grave record books which had the following columns:
- Grave number
- Name of owner
- Description
- Number in order book
The description column is filled with addresses, presumably of the grave owner. In the case of my ancestor’s grave the record was as follows:
107 – S. B. Stevenson – 7 Mount Pleasant – 16767 / 31472 / 44809 / 77029 …. Full 28/2/38
The 107 corresponds to the grave number on a map they have. The series of numbers (16767 etc) refer to individual burials, and presumably those are listed in the “order book”.
From about record 59000 onwards they also wrote the age of the person above the burial number. So, in the above record it says “89 yrs” above 77029. That refers to my ggg aunt Margaret Stevenson who died on 26th Feb 1938, and when she was buried the grave was full – hence the note on the far right.
Most graves are marked as full after 4, 5, 6 or 7 burials.
