Burial remains from St Thomas' church, Cliffe, Lewes, East Sussex

[Madtester]

I have found the burial record of my great grandmother, Harriett PILFOLD, nee Bryant, in the Parish records of St Thomas church at Cliffe, Lewes, East Sussex. She was buried on June 25 or June 26 (could be either, difficult to decifer handwriting) in 1931. She died on 21 June 1931 in Lewes. The burial ground for the church is no longer there - the area was redeveloped into what is now the Pheonix Causeway, Tesco's etc. I cannot find any record of where the graves have been relocated. I have tried the local council, but they cannot find any records. Harriett does not appear to be buried in the main Lewes cemetery. If anyone has any info it would be much appreciated.

[arthurk]

... The burial ground for the church is no longer there - the area was redeveloped into what is now the Pheonix Causeway, Tesco's etc. I cannot find any record of where the graves have been relocated. I have tried the local council, but they cannot find any records. Harriett does not appear to be buried in the main Lewes cemetery.

I've been looking at some old maps, and I can't see any evidence that there was a burial ground around Phoenix Causeway, Tesco etc. On the contrary, Genuki's page on the church says it didn't have a graveyard immediately adjacent, but a separate page has information about "All Saints and St Thomas Cemetery", with a map showing it as part of the town cemetery. This is borne out by a large scale OS map from 1932, which clearly shows an area within the cemetery with that name.

As such, it may well be that the council don't have any records themselves. Is there anything in the burial record that you do have which gives a plot number (which would then need a cemetery plan to make sense)? Your best bet for finding if there's a memorial that's been recorded would probably be the Sussex Family History Group, the East Sussex Record Office, or sites like Find A Grave or Billion Graves.

So you can check out what I've written, these are the pages and maps I've been looking at:

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Lewes/TheParishChurchofStThomas-Becket
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Lewes/AllSaintsandStThomasCemetery
https://maps.nls.uk/view/103672594
https://maps.nls.uk/view/103672579

PS - welcome to RootsChat!

[Madtester]

Many thanks for the info, I'll check it out.