Finding a vicar or priest

[Lisajb]

I am trying to find the person who officiated at my aunts funeral in 2016. A search with Google has resulted in a letter that was published in the Church Times in 2011.

Are there any online lists of current clergy, or organisations I could contact? In the published letter he says he was baptised Catholic, and goes on to describe himself as Anglo-Catholic, so I am somewhat confused.

[heywood]

Was the funeral in a church and was he the regular minister there?
If so, you could contact the parish or the diocese to see who was there at that time and maybe contact through the diocese.
I am wondering if I have misunderstood. Is this what you mean?

[candleflame]

Try looking on this list .
https://www.churchofengland.org/about/national-register-clergy

[Viktoria]

There is a register of Clergy  - Crockfords  , not sure where you could consult it though,library perhaps?
Viktoria.

[Lisajb]

Was the funeral in a church and was he the regular minister there?
If so, you could contact the parish or the diocese to see who was there at that time and maybe contact through the diocese.
I am wondering if I have misunderstood. Is this what you mean?

We’ve already contacted the church and he wasn’t the regular minister there.
They’ve said they thought he was retired, the service was somewhere else, and their recollection is that my aunt was just brought to the church for burial.

It’s a long and horribly complicated story. My mother (my aunts sister), my cousin (her daughter) and myself are trying to find answers but we get stonewalled at every turn. We didn’t even know she was dead until a couple years ago (she died in 2016), none of us were informed. A solicitor was the informant on her death certificate, they were also the executors of her will but refuse to let us have any details, even though the estate was tiny. The headstone which she’d previously had placed on the grave was removed on instruction of the solicitors who said that the family weren’t interested in having it re-engraved and replaced - except none of her family knew or were asked.....

[heywood]

Oh that sounds sad and difficult.
I would have thought the church would have a record of the funeral but I don’t know.
I see that the Church Times is an Anglican publication and as you have a name, Viktoria’s and candleflame’s  suggestions sounds good.
Another idea - newspaper articles?

[Lisajb]

Oh that sounds sad and difficult.
I would have thought the church would have a record of the funeral but I don’t know.
I see that the Church Times is an Anglican publication and as you have a name, Viktoria’s and candleflame’s  suggestions sounds good.
Another idea - newspaper articles?

We do have the date, the only thing that google has produced is the letter in the Church Times. I don’t have a British Newspaper Archive sub so can’t check there.

It’s such a struggle trying to find anything. I did locate the mason who still has the stone - but we can’t have it put back as the solicitor seems to be the legal owner of the grave and they seem determined to put barriers in the way. The lady has been dead 5 years - who do they think it will hurt?

[Lisajb]

Try looking on this list .
https://www.churchofengland.org/about/national-register-clergy

Not there, sadly, but thanks for the link. Looks like a visit to the local library to see if they have a copy of Crockfords.

[Girl Guide]

Have you checked the find a will website to see if she is listed on there?  If it says probate then she left a will and you should be able to obtain one.

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills

If her surname was a common one use the advanced search which allows you to enter more details.