Re: Error on Burials Index - Frank Timm- Walkley Cemetery
Hello Julie,
As you say, the Frank on the E286 gravestone is listed in our (the Friends') database as buried in D29. That is not *necessarily* a mistake - sometimes people are commemorated on a grave other than the one where they are buried.
However, when I look at the details of the only other burial which took place on that day in 1948, I do suspect a mix-up by the transcriber...
HOWARTH Annie Eliza 23 Mar 1948 56 Dodd Street 85y grave D286
TIMM Frank 23 Mar 1948 187 Providence Road 80y grave D29
Annie HOWARTH is listed on a gravetone which is on plot E29. So it seems likely that the transcription has the entries swapped and the section mistakenly as D in both entries.
I don't think the information here can be changed until the register has been checked, which I will do when I get the chance.
If confirmed, this would solve a mystery for me - why Frank Timm would be buried in D29 which is a War Grave (for Arthur HANSON)?
The provisional conclusion I come to is that both Franks are buried in E286 but Frank who died in 1969 was not recorded on the stone. I remember when I cleared the stone last year I uncovered enough of the kerbstones to judge that there was no lettering on them, but I didn't clear them completely. Perhaps I should go back to that - a project for another day.