digger Posted March 23, 2017 Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 As above, is there a free site for locating a resting place ? I have the full name, date of death and the village. Every site I try brings up search results but then wants subscription. Any advice greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owdnorthener Posted March 23, 2017 Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 Hi, Have you tried contacting the local council graves dept ? or the Church itself ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katzenjammer Posted March 23, 2017 Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 I would imagine a municipal owned cemetery will keep records of their sites. The older ones as paper records perhaps which may have been transferred to a computer based record. I imagine any modern records are now computerised. Look on your local council site for a link to their crematoria/cemeteries and ring them up and ask. As for churches or similar with a graveyard I would have thought that the church parish records will record all this. Contact the vicar or sexton of the church or parish? There may be an obligation to inform the local authority as well of who is buried where? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oowee Posted March 23, 2017 Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 I dont know of any free sites. My history was done through visits to the parish registers. Subscription is worth doing if its important to you. My history has gone to the national archive (whatever that is) and that may be free to search? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon R Posted March 23, 2017 Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 My wife tells me that you need to contact each church in the village, They provide this information free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger Posted March 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 Many thanks for the responses. I will explore the avenues suggested. Surrey Council link to ancestry.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted March 23, 2017 Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 (edited) Where is the village that you think the grave is located? Edited March 23, 2017 by Vince Green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clakk Posted March 23, 2017 Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 Im afraid a hell of a lot of public records have been sold to the private search engines so its a boots on the ground job we had loads of help from Derby historical society ,but some records we had to pay for .Went back to 1823 in my family and the 1700,s for her indoors ,learned some amazing things its worth a tenner for the journey through history Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Me matt Posted March 23, 2017 Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 My wife tells me that you need to contact each church in the village, They provide this information free. This 👍 Had to do the same a few years ago to find my grandads grave- it was un marked. Only the current vicar had access to the book of the buried within the grave yard, helped that we knew what church it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger Posted March 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 Vince - if I knew that I wouldn't have asked how to locate a grave mate ! I have the full name, date of death and have e mailed the Church where the funeral took place. All I know is it's in Milford in Surrey. I don't know if there was a burial or cremation though so I'm starting at the very beginning. The death made the national news due to the date ( 22nd December ) the fact the deceased was killed and I guess the nature of the accident. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wymberley Posted March 23, 2017 Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 Finding a grave. Started by digger , I'll get me coat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaxiDriver Posted March 23, 2017 Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 Am I the only person who found it mildly amusing that a chap called Digger has mislaid a grave ? Ok ok so I know his names probably not really digger, Just the thought made me grin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger Posted March 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 Never thought of that ! I've dug up a body once but never buried one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
four-wheel-drive Posted March 23, 2017 Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 (edited) Is there a local newspaper as they may well have printed details about it you could phone them up and ask. How long ago did they die another thing is local undertakers people tend to use a local one and they would have records at least they could point you in the rite direction. Edited March 23, 2017 by four-wheel-drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger Posted March 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 1978. There's accident reports on line from some Lord in charge of the inquiry but nowt else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted March 23, 2017 Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 (edited) Vince - if I knew that I wouldn't have asked how to locate a grave mate ! I have the full name, date of death and have e mailed the Church where the funeral took place. All I know is it's in Milford in Surrey. I don't know if there was a burial or cremation though so I'm starting at the very beginning. The death made the national news due to the date ( 22nd December ) the fact the deceased was killed and I guess the nature of the accident. That's what I meant, where was the village you mentioned in your OP? We have ended up driving to cemeteries on a Sunday to search. You tend to find somebody who can tell you something useful. Municipal cemeteries tend to bury people in sequencial rows so you can work out roughly where the grave is likely to within the cemetry be by the date. Municipal cemeteries are run by the council parks dept usually Edited March 23, 2017 by Vince Green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger Posted March 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 Thanks Vince. I plan to spend the weekend looking in person and hopefully will find the grave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
four-wheel-drive Posted March 24, 2017 Report Share Posted March 24, 2017 If you new the address of the person you could always go and knock on the neighbours doors and with luck one of them may well now or be able to point you in the direction of someone who would now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 https://www.iannounce.co.uk/United-Kingdom/23/Obituary/obit?_fstatus=search This looks for announcements of obituaries in newspapers. Sometimes it mentions churches or the undertakers who would have details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigrob Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Call your local record office - they have all of the county parish records including burials on microfiche - they will also have a search room and microfiche readers. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickS Posted April 1, 2017 Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 Are you sure he was buried and not cremated? Guildford Crematorium is nearby and it may be worth checking with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkfanz Posted April 1, 2017 Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 when i did my family history,i paid good money to ancestry site,however i found out later that lots of churches have put there b,m,d on there own site so well worth looking for them thats local to where your searching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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