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[JOOBLES]

My ancestor had a little girl, Ivy Caroline Hedges, who died aged 5 weeks, in October 1907.
She is recorded in the GRO death records.
On the ‘Find a grave’ website she is shown as buried in a shared grave - “Plot 2, grave 7727 SHARED GRAVE”.

I can see on the headstone in the photo of the grave, a lady called Sarah Drury was later buried there, in 1926 - “Plot 2, grave 7727B SHARED GRAVE”.

But as Ivy died in 1907, years before Sarah, she was obviously buried there first.

Sarah Drury is in the Cheriton Road Cemetery burial book in 1926 but there is no mention of little Ivy in 1907.

Any thoughts please ?
Thanks

[Dyingout]

All Cemetery records for that site are held by Folkestone and Hythe District Council.

They are contactable at mail: cemeteries@folkestone-hythe.gov.uk

And have been very helpful to me in the past.

[JOOBLES]

I’ve emailed them, thanks.

I don’t understand why Ivy is not in the burial book in 1907. I’ve looked either side of the date but she’s not mentioned.

[g eli]

I have found with Find a Grave that the people named are not always buried there, someone [probably doing family history) has added the name and sometimes their information is faulty, I have been caught a couple of times and doing my usual task of checking found major errors.

[JOOBLES]

MYSTERY SOLVED….

When the burial book was scanned for Anc…ry a few pages were missed.

Ivy and another baby were both buried there in 1907 but it was a council burial so the family didn’t own the plot.
Then later on, the top part was bought by a family to bury Sarah Drury and they put the gravestone there.

I contacted the transcriber on Find a Grave and have been sent the entry from the Register of Graves.