memoranda information on Coleford burial transcripts. (General)

by May , Thursday, August 15, 2013, 02:02 (4120 days ago) @ slowhands

The Coleford Cemetery records are different to other burial records because it is a Town or Municipal burial ground or Cemetery, rather than a Churchyard burial ground, and the record books contain much more information than the Church Burial Registers.

To put all the extra information into the burials template provided for the Parish Records database we had to condense the information and so we used the memorandum column for the extras.

Typically, and there are a few exceptions among the 6,000 records of burials,

The "Tonypandy" you mention will have come from the "Place of death" or "From what Parish removed" columns which serves to tell us where the "body" was brought from (if not Coleford Town) to be buried in Coleford Town cemetery.

Letters and Figures will be a combination of the grave location number and which section of the cemetery it is in, and will also state whether it is in Consecrated or unconsecrated ground - these snippets of information were all in separate columns.

Entries could have as many as 5 different columns condensed into memorandum.

I hope this helps give a better understanding of these Cemetery records.

May