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Blockley Baptist Church

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Re: Blockley Baptist Church

Posted: 23 Jun 2015 4:54PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello,

Even tho it has been over 6 years since you posted this, I wanted to share with you some information that I got online. It mentions that in/around 2001, there was a major excavation for a parking lot. And while digging, they uncovered many burials from the old Blockley cemetery. They were about 450 that were moved to Woodlands Cemetery. I would guess that there were no names on the coffins, so identification would be non existent. But perhaps your and my family are buried there. Looking for 4 generations of my Harper and extended family who were buried in Blockley between 1887 and 1910.

The other challenge is that there appears to be several different sections of the Blockley cemetery. One was connected to the Baptist Church, one to the medical school and one to the Alms House for the Poor. And the burials from Blockley if they were moved, went to different cemeteries when the 1930s electric power plant was built, in the 1970s when a parking lot was laid and again in 2001 when a new parking subterranean structure was built.
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danoh19344 11 May 2011 5:40PM GMT 
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