Reference
X745/3/3
Title
Funeral ledger
Date free text
1987-1992
Production date
From: 1987 To: 1992
Scope and Content
Each entry gives the name and age of the deceased, date and place of death, date of funeral, description of coffin and then the financial account. Expences include cost of the coffin, transportation, personal supervision, the hearse, and payments to coffin bearers, vicars, sextons and local newspapers (for death notices).
Two post-it notes were removed from the ledger and discarded but have been transcribed here in full:
[Affixed to the entry for Beatrice May Myers]
1052
Mrs B. M. Myers
Please put grave space no. 679 section E, Bedford Cemetery, Fosterhill Road
Memorial a/c to follow
[Affixed to the entry for Hugh McAtee Ward McGowan]
1053
Hugh McAtee Ward McGowan
Please put grave space no. 264 section H.10, Bedford Cemetery (Fosterhill Road) on the a/c
Book of remembrance fee £17.00
Memorial a/c to follow
Level of description
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