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Paupers graves
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Thomas | Report | 6 Oct 2008 00:43 |
Can anyone tell me if there is any way of locating a paupers grave please? My grandad died in 1946 in the Gorbals of Glasgow and we believe he is in a paupers grave.As far as i know paupers graves were not marked or any records kept,is this true? |
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Hoobity | Report | 6 Oct 2008 01:04 |
I still think a record is kept even though the grave is not marked. |
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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! | Report | 6 Oct 2008 01:12 |
Thomas, |
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Thomas | Report | 6 Oct 2008 02:05 |
Is there any internet site i can go on to find the records as i dont even know what cemetary it could be? |
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Pat Kendrick | Report | 6 Oct 2008 10:54 |
Thomas |
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Margaretfinch | Report | 6 Oct 2008 14:39 |
My husbands grandmother died in 1932 and she was in a paupers grave we went to gatekeeper he looked it up and said there won't be a sone but lo and beholdwe found a little stone in place with her name and age at death so here is hoping for you |
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MarilynB | Report | 6 Oct 2008 18:01 |
A few of mine are buried in paupers graves, one or two have a head stone, but as Joan says they are buried in a grave with about 10 or 11 others, no relation at all but if you can find a grave number in the registers at a cemetery they are likely to be, you may be in with a chance. |
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Madmeg | Report | 6 Oct 2008 23:27 |
A family of mine had children buried in "Board Graves". I naively thought this meant that they had been allocated places by some official Board. It actually meant that there was a big trench covered with wooden boards. If you needed to bury a relative, you simply moved the boards aside and threw the bodies in. No records were kept unless you were lucky. My husband's cousin, now aged about 85, remembers two of his baby brothers being chucked into the board grave in Macclesfield by their distraught father. He recalls his dad trying to revive one of them by warming him in front of the fire, to no avail. |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 7 Oct 2008 00:20 |
My grandmother died in 1956 and was placed in a common grave along with other people whose families couldn't afford burial plots. The cemetary gave my mum a map with the grave marked on it and one day I will visit. (it was my dad's mother) |