Grave Stones - Obligations and Rights (General)

by ritpetite , New Zealand, Friday, April 27, 2012, 05:24 (4596 days ago) @ rookancestrybest

When I was visiting from NZ 2008 I was told by the Ross church that if I wanted to know where a particular grave was I would have to phone the Funeral Director.

It seems to be an unfortunate thing in some, I dont know if it happens everywhere, English graveyards that the plots have not been marked or recorded.

Perhaps they could adopt the attitude as we have in a lot of cemeteries here that the council keeps a record of the cemetery and in fact we are lucky enough to have the plots marked out online in some cases.

Of course we are a very young country and I guess we would not have the graves dating back perhaps further than early 1800's.

Good luck with those searches. I was not successful but hopefully you will be.

Rita
NZ