Coleford Baptist Cemetery (original & also Victoria Street) (General)

by javapierce, Sunday, July 05, 2009, 14:25 (5694 days ago)

Last week I finally had an opportunity to visit Coleford for genealogy research I am doing on my family history from Australia. I learned the original Baptist churchyard cemetery (on Newland Street) has been turned into a carpark. A gentleman I spoke with in the Baptist Church said when the carpark was constructed the headstones were mostly in decay. I did find some graves still intact around the carpark perimeter but only a couple which were not related to me. I then took a walk up to the cemetery on Victoria Street and found some existing graves of various Trotter family members (of whom I am descended), but many headstones were so weathered I had no way of knowing who lay were. Where could I find a map of gravesite locations in those 2 cemeteries if an actual place map exists for each grave?