Cemetry

[dstew]

Is there any way of finding where my ancestor is buried His name was ********* he died on the 23rd August of 1977 at the Guy's Hospital at London Bridge.I have emailed the hospital to see whether they have on record to see which funeral parlor took care of the body so i am waiting for a reply, I don't know which paper to look at to see if there was a death notice for him so where to go from here ???????????

* name removed as the date of death is well past our cut off date of 1959.
LesleyB

[Tracey]

Was he from the London area ? Is it possible he could have been from outside London but having specialist treatment at Guys - just thinking about local papers for death notices .

[dstew]

Tracey,
My great uncle lived in England for sometime at 15 Cann hall road E11 I am not sure where that is but the death certificate i have for him was in the district of Southwark London

[Tracey]

Looking at Google E11 is Leytonstone - East London and not close to Guys Hospital - which just qualifies as South London - so i would assume he was being having specialist treatment there ? or it could have had an A&E department at the time. Although i am out east i am not familiar with Leytonstone (its just a name on the Central Line tube to me !) but i do sort of know the area where Guys is.
When i decided to find my gt grandparents burial places i went to the local Council and they told me where they were buried and showed me the book with all the information of costs etc. I suppose there is also the possibility he could have been cremated.
You could email the local library to find out which newspapers were around at the time and if it still exists.

Sorry its not much help but my minds gone blank right now !.

[dstew]

Tracey, Thank you will try that

[Currie]

Hello Dstew,

Number 15 Cann Hall Road, Leytonstone, London E11 3HY, appears to be currently St. Catherine’s, a nursing home. According to the webpage it was registered in 1988 but maybe there was something there prior to that. If he was in some sort of care facility, and family were still keeping an eye on him, then any death notice may have been in the newspaper where he previously lived. http://www.housingcare.org/downloads/fa ... ngland.pdf

It’s only a very small establishment, maybe you could contact them for information about whether they were around in some form in 1977 and if so, whether they still hold records of where he was buried or the name of the funeral director. In the 1960s there was a St Catherine’s Church in Leytonstone. Possibly the one you can see just up the road from where number 15 is supposed to be. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en ... =UTF8&om=1

I saw the name before and checked the Times for RS but couldn’t see anything, but that newspaper is inclined to be a bit elitist.

Hope that helps,
Alan