CATHOLIC-L Archives

Archiver > CATHOLIC > 2003-04 > 1051598805


From: Louise GIBSON <>
Subject: Re: [CATHOLIC] Birmingham Burials
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:46:45 +1000
In-Reply-To: <200304220800.h3M80Moo017333@lists2.rootsweb.com>


Hello Frances
Many thanks for the info. I am now awaiting a reply from the managers of
the Key Hill Cemetery which is in the Jewellery District of Birmingham and
opened in 1836 as a general cemetery.
The other alternative is that there was a mass re-burial in another part of
St Chad's burial ground that would be well away from the extended building,
however the R/C Archivist did not give this suggestion so perhaps there is
no record. I will get back to him with this question after I have heard
back regarding Key Hill

Here in Tasmania we are sometimes lucky with surviving records from
undertakers, more so for those who
were well established family firms that survived in the same business for
several generations. The records before 1900 don't seem to have survived
for the majority of undertakers statewide.

The route of using undertakers records in Birmingham is too challenging for
me to take at present as it would most probably necessitate a researcher at
the Birmingham Archives.

However, as a result of your info, I now have other avenues to follow with
regard to the wife of my Charles BROWN. She is not buried in one of the
crypts at St Chad's and I suspect that after his death in 1837 she reverted
to her own faith or at least C/E. She was born Church of Scotland. Their
youngest son was christened in St Chad's in 1827, but when he arrived here
in Tasmania in 1851 he gave his religion as Protestant, but we have a
family story that his older twin sisters were R/C nuns!!

Does anyone have any clues where to start looking for records relating to
Nuns who would have been 18 in 1838 ?

Louise
Burnie
Tasmania in OZ
At 06:00 PM 22/04/2003, you wrote:
>Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:40:15 -0700
>From: Frances Bishop <>
>To:
>Subject: Re: [CATHOLIC] LG / Birmingham burials (was Baptismal Witnesses)
>
>Hello Louise
>
>Many thanks for sharing your results. Fascinating.
>Here's another thought, based on local civic practices in the 20th
>century. It's likely that undertakers/funeral directors were employed to
>remove and re-bury remains. Said undertakers may have kept registers, and
>those registers may have survived. (Here in Canada we rely on funeral
>directors' records, but I don't know whether similar records are available
>in the UK.)
>
>It's also likely that the local civic authority (City of Birmingham) would
>have been apprised of any such removals. In fact any re-burials from the
>St. Chad's cemetery may have been in civic rather than church cemeteries.
>An inquiry might not go amiss...
>
>The following address is from www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WAR/deloyd/warcem.htm
>
>BIRMINGHAM Principal Registrar,
> Birmingham City Council,
> Yardley Cemetery and Crematorium,
> Yardley Road,
> South Yardley,
> Birmingham.
> B25 8NA
>
>This site shows Birmingham cemeteries and their start dates:
>http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaib/cemeteries.htm
>
>There is a link to: http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cemeteries
>
>extract: Cemeteries & Crematoria Headquarters:
> Tele: 0121 708 2183
> Fax: 0121 706 9142
> e-mail: cems&


This thread: