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Olgiza

Olgiza Report 17 Oct 2003 21:33

You seem well informed regarding the cemetry. Do you know how long graves are 'owned' for. I have rellies who were buried in Streatham PC and for a couple of them have grave numbers and the Square they are in. If I get the chance to visit will the pre war 'tenants' still be there? Roger

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}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){ Report 18 Oct 2003 01:02

Roger On a recent trip to my local Cemetery Records Office I discovered that my family has a 'perpetual' plot in one of the local cemeteries. It was bought at such a time when this was allowed and so they have to honour that. Over the years the time for owning a plot has been lowered and I think the gentleman at the Records Office said that the longest you could own a plot for these days was 60 years. Well at least I've got a place to go when the time comes! Jeanette

Olgiza

Olgiza Report 18 Oct 2003 11:58

Good morning and thanks SheMaxSL and Jeannette. I never knew that cemetaries were sometimes private and thought that they were all publicly owned. The information I have is from some of those little black edged "In Loving Memory"v booklets and one refers to a private grave (together with No and Sq) and another says "interred at....." The third, my mat GM just gives a date so there may well be differences. It is still worth the trip to look see. I can remember about 50 years ago being taken to the cemetry to tidy up grandmas grave and when I got home my mother asked where I had been. When I told her Streatham she assumed that I had been to the common and asked if it was busy. My reply was that they were laying head to toe in long rows as far as I could see. Her reply was to the effect that it is not surprising now that we are having warm weather. My uncle wouldn't let me tell her there and then where we actually had been but a week or so later I told her and got the obligatory clip round the ear for my trouble. They were the good old days!