I am trying to find the Burial Records of Florence and Harry Stroud. Florence died 23 Jan 1961 in Lydney and Harry died 24 June 1961 also in Lydney. I have found the Registraion of their Deaths on Ancestry and I know that they are buried in Lydney Cemertry as my husband and I go to visit the grave(they are his grandparents). I am at present transcribing the burial records for Lydney 1937-1978 and can find no trace of the burials in the Register. Is it likely that they were both missed for some reason,and if so why.

Barbara

Name: Harry T Stroud
Spouse : Florence E Lord
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1919
Registration district: Aston
Registration county (inferred): Warwickshire
Volume Number: 6d
Page Number: 865

Do you have the Death certs ?

Were they non- conformist ?

Was the funeral performed elsewhere - i.e. Aylburton with interment in Lydney ?

Do you have any newspaper article / obit. that might throw some more light ?

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Hi slowhands, thanks for that.
We have the death certificate for Harry Stroud he died 24 June 1961 and his death was registerd 26 Jun 1961.We also have from the Parish Council of Lydney a form which gives the exclusive Right of Burial in the Grave Space no 74 in Block (illeligble) in the consecrated portion of the Burial Ground situate at Church Road Lydney, being part of the Burial Ground vested in the said Council.

As far as we are aware they were C of E ,and they were buried together in the same grave.
The burial ground is on the opposite side of the road to the Church and the grave is on the left hand side as you go through the gates.

Barbara

I had a similar situation where I could not find the record in the parish. The widow had gone to live with her older son in Ross on Wye and the record was in that parish but she was brought back to Little dean. This was back in the 1840's, any chance something similar might have happened to your family?

The fact that you have a form from Lydney Parish Council suggests that the burials took place in a municipal cemetery. The parish council mentioned is quite likely a civil parish as opposed to an ecclesiastical one. The fact that a consecrated section is mentioned adds weight to this argument, as generally speaking virtually the whole of a churchyard is consecrated ground (with a few exceptions for the un-baptised and suicides, etc.) whilst in municipal cemeteries it tends to be less. The appropriated local council will hold the registers.

From British History On-line_

"In 1955 a cemetery, managed by Lydney parish council, was opened on the west side of Church Road."

Hi

No they both living in Lydney at the time of their deaths.

Barbara