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I have recently got a death certificate for my long lost great grandfather. How can I find where he is buried?

  • I have recently got a death certificate for my long lost great grandfather. Do you have any idea how I can use this certificate to find where he is buried? He died in 1960’s It says his death was in Cornwall but his next of kin is London… any ideas would be great as my Grandfather has never seen the grave. Don't know where to start. Advice would be great. Thank you very much...

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    Additionally to the answer about checking with your local council, see if your local library has the National Burial Index which is a project to index burial information from parish registers. Your library may have it on CD-ROM, or if your library has the online service Find My Past, then it is included within that and can be searched along with other parish sources The last release included over 18 million names http://www.ffhs.org.uk/projects/nbi/nbi-overview.php The Family Records Centre closed in 2008 as many of the records are now online - this page gives information as to what is available. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/birthmarriagedeathenglandwales.htm This answer was provided by Enquire, a 24-hour, live question answering and enquiry service offered by public librarians across England and Scotland in collaboration with partners in the United States. If you liked our answer and would like us to help you find another, you can chat with one of us right now by clicking on Enquire on the People’s Network site at http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk

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Burials and cremations are controlled by the local council, as enviromental and if you have his death certificate then you have the date he died and normally within a few days a burial or cremation would have taken place ( 1960s still likely to be a burial) Contact the council and ask them to look in records which they have and some councils have their own online database so you can look yourself http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=231 Look at the last address on his death cert and what cemertry is local to that. Use the national online search and see if Cornwall is on https://www.deceasedonline.com/

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Family Records Centre at Myddleton Street in North London probably has search facilities.

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Most death certificates indicate the place of burial, especially one that are this recent. You might try find a grave. It is he died in Cornwall, you might the the office that keeps records of death and see if they also maintain records on burials.

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Christopher H, Start with whomever made out the death certificate; see who arranged the funeral. Check newspaper, libraries, other places that might know about these things.

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