Thank you for following along on my 31 Days of Graves challenge, where I have posted photographs and written a short piece about graves I have found across Loughborough cemeteries, on a different theme each day. If you want to look back at these, the list, with links, is below.
During the challenge, I had a number of people asking me to supply them with a photograph of their relative’s headstone, and where it’s been possible to do this I have. However, I am simply wandering through the cemeteries, and not conducting a methodical search for specific people, so I can’t guarantee to find someone in particular. My focus has been on seeking out headstones that fit into the days’ theme, rather than looking for named people.
Added to this, of course, is that not everyone has a memorial stone. Generally, these would have been erected by families of the relatively wealthy, who could afford to pay to buy or lease a plot, to pay for a headstone, and to pay for it to be engraved with personal details. Often, poorer people did not have headstones, and often they were buried in mass graves, which means that while I’m wandering through a cemetery I am unlikely to find them.
However, don’t despair, because records for the Leicester Road cemetery are kept by the Charnwood Borough Council, and people can make a request to them for the location of the plot, if enough information can be provided – like name, date of death, age at death, etc.. I haven’t personally tried this service, but I think a plot number would be provided, and one could use this in conjunction with the map which is posted on a noticeboard in the cemetery itself. Some plot markers still exist, too, so these can be helpful. Don’t forget that one side of the cemetery is devoted to Church of England followers, the other to non-conformists.
The churchyard of All Saints with Holy Trinity has over 1,000 memorial stones. I believe most of these are recorded on the Old Rectory Museum website.
There are some online sites, like FindAGrave which can give some information on burials, too.
And to finish off, here’s some photos of the new cemetery on Watermead Lane, off Nanpantan Road, which didn’t make it to the blog!
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List of all the blogposts in the 31 Days of Graves Challenge
Day 1 Angels
Day 2 Died Abroad
Day 3 Overgrown
Day 4 Heart
Day 5 Tidy
Day 6 Hourglass
Day 7 Repaired
Day 8 1700-1799
Day 9 Mysterious
Day 10 Profession
Day 11 Interesting epitaph
Day 12 Mistake
Day 13 Famous
Day 14 Pre-1700
Day 15 Saint
Day 16 Animal
Day 17 Unknown
Day 18 Metalwork
Day 19 Masonic
Day 20 1800-1899
Day 21 Memento Mori
Day 22 Accident
Day 23 Picture Perfect
Day 24 Flowers
Day 25 Humble
Day 26 Unusual Shape
Day 27 Military
Day 28 1900-1999
Day 29 Grand
Day 30 Broken
Day 31 Skull
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