could a will lead to finding great grandmothers grave

[brigidmac]

so far no success in finding a grave for Charlotte BENJAMIN
died in epsom hospital surrey 29 jan 1954 # sorry 1956

home address was 12 dynham road west hampstead

i didnt send for her will because assumed she would have left everything to her only son 
having outlived her only sibling

 could she have stipulated a preferred burial place

her husband had  died many years before +they were estranged

[alpinecottage]

The Will will only cost you £1.50 (I think), so not a huge outlay even if it tells you nothing. But have you considered she may well have been cremated?

[brigidmac]

Yes I did wonder about cremation
Are there any records for that ?

[CaroleW]

No death in 1954 - do you mean 1956?

[brigidmac]

Yes very sorry I misread it
Should be 1956

I could look into parish records ...not sure which ones

[CaroleW]

Where was her husband buried? 

[wilcoxon]

so far no success in finding a grave for Charlotte BENJAMIN
died in epsom hospital surrey 29 jan 1954 # sorry 1956

home address was 12 dynham road west hampstead

i didnt send for her will because assumed she would have left everything to her only son 
having outlived her only sibling

 could she have stipulated a preferred burial place

her husband had  died many years before +they were estranged

She was at 12 Dynham Road in 1939, so didn't move . Perhaps an obituary in local papers. Just a thought.

[nanny jan]

One of my gt. aunts left a request in her Will that she was to be cremated and her ashes put in her mother's grave.  A few complications....she died in Somerset, mother's grave was in Kent but it did happen.

[alpinecottage]

Yes I did wonder about cremation
Are there any records for that ?

I don't think there will be records for what may have happened to any ashes; people collect them and scatter them all over the place.  If she was cremated, the crem may have records as to who collected the ashes or whether there is a memorial plaque anywhere, but it is a long time ago now.