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Could anyone please help me in tracing the grave of Dorothy Helsdon she was born on 12 June 1909 and died on the 2 March 1919. I now have a copy of her birth and death certificate and this does not give me the information I urgently require. I know that Dorothy was born as a result of my great grandmother Emily being raped whist she was in service.

My grandmother knew that her mother had, had a baby before she married her father but she didn''t know that the child had lived with her grandparent as she had died before my grandmother was born.
I know that when my great grandmother Emily Helsdon married my great grandfather William Chapman they moved to Hunslet, Leeds and Dorothy Helsdon remained in Aylsham with her grandparents Robert and Edith Helsdon.
Any information small or large would be gratefully receieved. As I unrgently want too take my grandmother before her Alzhimers get any worse as she is now in the latter stages of this illness.

I would start by phoning the council cemeteries department for the area nearest to where the death took place. Most councils or cemetery offices have burials on computer now and if yo have the exact date of death they should be able to help you. If she was not buried near to where she died then it will be much harder to find her resting place.

Kath. x

I have pmd you Tracy.

Lizx

i just googled Helsdon in Aylsham and there are still Helsdons there.
A little lad with that surname is mentioned as being in a martial arts group or something.
Are you in touch with any Helsdons from that area?
Lizx