Who is responsible for cemeteries and bodies buried without a stone?

[HardRockOwl]

Is it the council? There are no contact details that I can see for the cemetery I want to contact ( Eston & Normanby as it happens)

I know my great grandma is in one of the graves with my great grandad - his name is on the headstone etc but it's as if she never existed due to a fall out in the family - so nobody paid for a gravestone

I'd like to put this right, some 50 odd years later but how do I find out that she's definitely buried there?

Thanks in advance

Contact a local funeral director - they should know.

They should know the right contact details I mean.

Now I wouldn't have thought of that! Thanks I'll do that

Could you try the Teesside Archives?

Is this the "friends of " group of the right cemetery? They might have contact details

www.facebook.com/groups/809544179949451/

My Grandfather is buried in a graveyard where you buy the plot, so the deeds to the grave pass down through the family. No-one is able to do anything with the grave without the ownership papers. My grandmother's grave is on a lease from the council but until it expires no-one can touch it without the lease papers. However this may be different in different areas.

If you don't have any paperwork it may be difficult to sort a change of headstone but maybe you could have an engraved plant/flower holder with your great- grandmas details on which you place in front of the headstone, so you are only adding something in the same way as adding a vase of flowers.

Ah, read your OP wrongly, sorry (I blame my barking menace of a dog), I'm not sure how you can check for sure who is in the grave unless it is attached to a church

Calling the funeral directors worked! They gave me the number for the local bereavement team responsible for graves and they confirmed she is buried there

I am able to change the stone if I wish to. It will require some paperwork to be filled in but that's all - there's no owner of the grave so that's something

I now just need to work out if it's worth doing? She's 'only' my great grandma and I was a year old when she died. I'd be doing this as a mark of respect for her, she should have her name there because she lived and they should be acknowledged

But I'll give it more thought

It’s a lovely thing that you’re doing. 🙂

My great grandparents and other family members are buried without a stone owing to a family fall out. There are still people alive who would make a fuss if anyone tried to erect a stone. Such a shame. 😞

Crikey. You mean... I had a good idea and it worked?! There's a first time for everything I suppose

I'm glad you found her.

@EVHead it is a shame. I've known about it for a little while and just needed to make sure she was in there with him - and she most certainly is.

So next step is to call the local stone mason

@takeitandleaveit it was a brilliant idea!

@EVHead would you consider doing it if you could?

It's certainly worth doing for future genealogists trying to locate final resting places of ancestors. Gravestones can often provide the final bit of confirmation needed.

Worth doing for that and the reason you cited.

@DownNative that's a good point

Well I've called the stone masons and I'll wait for a call back from them. It'll now come down to cost really - because I didn't know her, all I want is her name adding and the years she lived.