Forest of Dean FHT Forum - Coleford Baptist Cemetery (original & also Victoria Street)

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

chrishowell — Tue, 10 May 2011 21:13:54 +0000

If you are still looking for the Trotters in Coleford Cemetery, please give me details of the names you require and your e-mail and I will forward details to you. I hold the Cemetery Records on a memory stick and will be only too pleased to help
Chris H

Coleford Cemetery Plan Map (reply)

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:17:20 +0000

You will find that the Coleford Cemetery transcripts contain additional information in the Memoranda setion.

This is what the numbers represent in the Memoranda field.

(1) Place of Death
(2) Burial Section
(3) Grave Number
(4) Type of Ground
(5) Parish Removed from

Supplied to us by the Coleford Town Council and available from our Downloads page:
Coleford_Cemetery_Plan.pdf

Downloads --> Miscellaneous Documents
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/joomla/resources/documents-and-articles

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

pamclark — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:31:53 +0000

I am fairly sure that the cemetery in Victoria Road, Coleford is managed by Coleford Town Council and they should therefore hold record of plots.

You might like to try contacting them
Coleford Town Council,
No.2 The Town House,
Lords Hill Walk,
Coleford, Glos.
Tel. 01594 832103
http://www.colefordtowncouncil.org/

Good luck with your search.

Coleford Baptist Cemetery (original & also Victoria Street)

javapierce — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:25:23 +0000

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?