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Born 1923 Tiverton Died 1956 Bampton Tiverton Devon.
Looking for a Burial Place. Parents Robert 1891-1952 and Annie 1894- 1947 are in Bampton Church. Can't find a Burial place but do have a Probate. Can anyone Help Please.

Are you certain that he was buried?

Get a copy of his Will to see whether he left any instructions regarding the disposal of his body

Perhaps he was cremated and not buried.



The probate record for our reference:

Robert Thomas Maunder
in the England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995
Name Robert Thomas Maunder
Death Date 12 Mar 1956
Death Place Devonshire, England
Probate Date 11 May 1956
Probate Registry London, England

Maunder, Robert Thomas, of Cleave Farm, Bampton, Devon, died 12 March 1956.
Administration London 11 May to Maureen Lucy Elizabeth Maunder, widow.
Effects £689 5s 4d.


You can buy a copy of his Will, in case there are any instructions about his funeral:

https://www.gov.uk/search-will-probate


Try contacting the church, in case they have records.

https://hukeleymissioncommunity.org/locations/st-michael-all-angels-bampton/

Perhaps not all the gravestones have been recorded on findagrave..

His widow remarried in Tiverton in 1958.


The obituary notice of Maureen Lucy Elizabeth LITTLE
South Molton, 19/08/1928 - 02/12/2022 (Age 94), Published in: North Devon Journal.
Co-op Funeralcare, Barnstaple

Maureen Lucy Elizabeth LITTLE
Aged 94 years, resident of South Molton, passed away peacefully 2nd December 2022, much loved wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She will be sadly missed by us all. Funeral to take place on Tuesday 20th December at 2pm, St Mary Magdalene Church, South Molton. Family flowers only, donations can be made to The North Devon Air Ambulance if wished.

Have you checked the local newspaper?

FARMER FOUND SHOT DEAD

A 33-year-old farmer, Mr. Robert Thomas Maunder, of Cleave Farm, Huntsham, was found dead with gunshot wounds in the head in the sitting-room of his home yesterday. A shotgun was lying nearby. He was found by Mr. P. J. Davey, of Newton Square, Bampton, who, calling on Mr Maunder, saw him through a window. Mr Maunder is a married man with three children. His wife and family were not at home at the time.
Published: Tuesday 13 March 1956
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England

Coincidentally, the younger of Robert's sisters also married a Little, and had three children

Closed record in 1939, so perhaps alive to ask

Robert Maunder 05 Oct 1876 Male Tenant Farmer Married 115 1
Annie E Maunder 27 Sep 1894 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 115 2
Florence E Ridgeway (Maunder) 05 Jul 1918 Female Farmer Assistant Single 115 3
Robert T Maunder 12 Feb 1923 Male Farmer Assistant Single 115 4
The record for this person is officially closed.
The record for this person is officially closed.


EDITED
On ER to 2019

When did the rules change about burying suicides in consecrated ground?

ADDED

2015

Church of England to allow full funerals for suicides: General Synod votes to sweep away ban to signal its compassion for the vulnerable

In the circumstances he was probably cremated. Maybe worth trying the council cemeteries officer to see if the ashes were interred somewhere.

The younger sister, sadly also deceased:

LITTLE, CHRISTINE DAISY 1937
GRO Reference: DOR Q4/2018 in DEVON (423-1E) Entry Number 518342965

Thank You for all your help. We will go along those lines and see if the council can bring any answers. Carol.

Have you contacted the GR member who has this man in her tree?

I don't know the area, but would suggest that at that time there were not many places available in a rural district for cremation.

Having internet trouble, but searches I've been able to do so far indicate that present day crematorium opened much later.

Maybe he is in a council cemetery.

His grave isn't showing up anywhere on Findagrave.

But not all gravestones have been transcribed.
Or maybe he doesn't have a gravestone.

If he's not cremated, and not in St Michael's where his parents are buried (link to church website posted already - and worth contacting in case he's buried there but not named on a stone), Mid Devon Council maintains three cemeteries:


Tiverton Cemetery
Park Road, Tiverton EX16 6BA

Crediton Cemetery
Old Tiverton Road, Crediton EX17 1HW

Cullompton Cemetery
( run by Cullompton Town Council)


Of those, Tiverton seems the most likely.

To contact Mid Devon Council:

https://www.middevon.gov.uk/residents/bereavement/cemeteries/contact-us-about-cemeteries/

This site claims to be a full list of al burials in St Michael's churchyard - and Robert's not on it.

https://www.bampton.org.uk/graveyard.html

But it does say, "Some work is still to be done on existing burials. "