Do cemeteries have details of everyone buried there?

Question

And how could i find this information? i'm after details of Burslem Cemetery to be precise.

Answer 1

In UK there are records kept and as someone here has said many are written in stone, searching can be fun.

Answer 2

Yes here in the UK we do. You can ask at the cemetery office for details of the grave you are trying to find, but here in the UK you have to give a date of death. If you give the right date of death then you will be given two numbers. The first number is for the area that the grave is in, once you locate the area then you can search for the grave number, this system works really well.

Some one said the details are on the headstone, not all family's could afford a "proper send off " for their loved one, so they were interred in a "paupers" grave, or a "common " grave. Both are unmarked, but we have the  location and grave numbers to help us find where such graves are sited. The superintendent has these graves marked out for you if you want to lay flowers.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Yes they do.   Just go to the site office or house and they will help you.

Answer 4

the local council should have

Answer 5

its on the stones

Answer 6

yes they do and you could try writing to them and asking if they would look for name of the person you want.They may charge you.

Answer 7

An "in general" answer: It depends on what kind of information you're hoping to find. Some have little more than the name of the person buried in the grave and who paid for the plot. Others have significant details and can tell you the date of death, the date of birth, where they lived at the time of death, next of kin, etc. The key question is when did the person die and how well did they keep records at that point in time? Some cemetaries never kept records of who was buried in a particular grave. They only kept records of who bought the grave and when it was filled. It's a sad reality that everything hasn't been standardized throughout history.

You can always contact the sexton's office to see how much information they have. But if you're looking for "a lot" of detail about the person, you need to contact the local records office for the death record and check for an old obituary. There will be more in those records than there will be in the cemetary office.

Answer 8

You could always try calling them......

Burslem cemetery

Hanley Road,

Burslem,

Stoke on Trent,

ST6 1RD.

Tel: [phone] (Carmountside cemetery and crematorium)

http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/content/hcp/...

Answer 9

The cemetery office will have a record of all the graves on their site, should this be no longer there, due to cutbacks, then your local Town Hall will have the records.

Answer 10

yes and location

Answer 11

Most do.  I found the cemetary where my great great great grandmother was buried.  The lady that was giving me the information told me there was another Klemke buried there-a 15 year old boy.  That's a strange name and there was no information but that he did not have perpetual care.  There was no information but he would have to be a relative.

I worked once putting the information from their burial books into keypunch cards.  It was very interesting because it not only told where and how deep they were buried but who buried them and what they died of.  I got the oldest book and the very first person was a lady who was buried under the old oak tree with no directions.  I guess everyone knew where that was . . .then.  And it was interesting that only two people died of gunshot wounds from a duel-the same duel.  And there were so many children that died young and then the epidemics. . .We started swearing we could smell flowers in the office while we did this job. . .

Answer 12

some

contact Burslem Cemetery

Answer 13

Depends on how old the churchyard is and how far back you want to go.

I recently found burial records at the records office for some of my ancestors, but the actual cemetery had no record of them.

I was going back to the 1700s and as my ancestors were poor labourers, there probably wouldnt have been a headstone, and the space would have been reused about 100 years later.

So dont be put off if the cemetery do not have a record of your ancestor.   Try the records office for the county concerned, they may have a burial record.

Answer 14

yes

Answer 15

They should keep records, but not all do. You may have to look elsewhere. It can be very frustrating thinking that you will automatically get the info that you want then are let down.

Answer 16

Cemeteries SHOULD have records concerning all the burials. The reality is that some will NOT have those records.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/

If you mean the one in Staffordshire... there is info on this page about the burial registers being filmed.  Looking at google, it seems there may be more than one with this name.

Everyone who said "yes" to this question... made an assumption, which you cannot do in genealogy.  I have run into numerous cemeteries that don't have complete records.