Hello. I saw your kind offer to look up names in the Burial Index and wondered whether you could help me?
I have been doing research on my grandmother and she was born in Colchester in 1891 and, after travelling the world, died there also on August 23rd, 1955.
I have rung cemeteries in Colchester and looked on various websites but cannot find where she is buried.
I have probate details on her and she left a considerable amount of money so I do not believe that she would be buried in a pauper's grave.
Her parents were Sarah (nee Goddard) and John Nicholls, although the there is a mistake on her death certificate saying that her father was George, not John. Her death was registered by her first cousin Florence Mary Richer and it was at her house that she died in Black Heath, Rowhedge, Colchester. This area is also known as Lexden and East Donyland but I understand that they are all parts of Colchester.
My grandmother never married. She also did not raise my mother which is why I have so many unanswered questions. Thank you for your generous offer,
Pat Fursman.