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  • Burial for Harold Ogden HANDSILL died 1976

    From mushy6@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 8 22:47:28 2018
    Hello All

    I have a death on NSW BDM for Harold Ogden HANDSILL born 1915 died in 1976 but cannot find where he is buried/cremated. He lived in the Newcastle area and in 1972 was still living in the area.I have checked various cemetery indexes, Billion graves,
    Sandgate cemetery etc.
    Anyone have any suggestions please>
    Thanks
    Jan

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  • From Doug Laidlaw@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 31 02:10:49 2018
    On 09/07/18 15:47, mushy6 wrote:

    Hello All

    I have a death on NSW BDM for Harold Ogden HANDSILL born 1915 died in 1976 but cannot find where he is buried/cremated. He lived in the Newcastle area and in 1972 was still living in the area.I have checked various cemetery indexes, Billion graves,
    Sandgate cemetery etc.
    Anyone have any suggestions please>
    Thanks
    Jan

    Nothing on Australian Cemeteries Index. A death cert may be your only
    option. I think that NSW has uncertified copies of the death
    registration, which are otherwise identical, but cheaper.

    According to family trees on Ancestry.com, his wife Stella died in 1991
    in Sydney. Do you know whether she moved there after 1972?

    HTH,

    Doug.

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  • From Kate@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 31 14:20:29 2018
    "Doug Laidlaw" wrote in message news:pm94u8$7hn$1@gioia.aioe.org...

    On 09/07/18 15:47, mushy6 wrote:

    Hello All

    I have a death on NSW BDM for Harold Ogden HANDSILL born 1915 died in 1976 but cannot find where he is buried/cremated. He lived in the Newcastle
    area and in 1972 was still living in the area.I have checked various
    cemetery indexes, Billion graves, Sandgate cemetery etc.
    Anyone have any suggestions please>
    Thanks
    Jan

    Nothing on Australian Cemeteries Index. A death cert may be your only
    option. I think that NSW has uncertified copies of the death
    registration, which are otherwise identical, but cheaper.

    According to family trees on Ancestry.com, his wife Stella died in 1991
    in Sydney. Do you know whether she moved there after 1972?

    HTH,

    Doug.

    Hi Jan

    Harold filed for divorce in 1953 so they won't be together. Searched various cemeteries around Newcastle to no avail.
    Newcastle Memorial Park, has no deceased search online but Harold might well
    be there. Perhaps an email might produce a result.
    Apart from that, Doug's suggestion seems the way to go. Transcription
    services can be found on NSW Registry of BDM's website.

    Regards

    Kate
    Sydney, Australia

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  • From Di Esse@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 11 00:01:00 2018
    On Monday, July 9, 2018 at 3:47:30 PM UTC+10, mushy6 wrote:
    Hello All

    I have a death on NSW BDM for Harold Ogden HANDSILL born 1915 died in 1976 but cannot find where he is buried/cremated. He lived in the Newcastle area and in 1972 was still living in the area.I have checked various cemetery indexes, Billion graves,
    Sandgate cemetery etc.
    Anyone have any suggestions please>
    Thanks
    Jan

    If he was cremated, the crematorium might still have or even disposed of the remains after all this time. They may be been collected and kept at home. My sister has our parents in her cupboard.

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  • From mushy6@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 11 00:06:19 2018

    If he was cremated, the crematorium might still have or even disposed of the remains after all this time. They may be been collected and kept at home. My sister has our parents in her cupboard.


    Hello Di
    Thanks for your response.. I found out that he was cremated at Beresfield Crematorium and his ashes scattered.
    cheers
    Jan

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