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Video produced by JSPV John Stephens Photography & Video - funeral video & live-streaming specialists. For more information please visit: https://jspv.uk/funerals George John Funeral Directors of Solihull & Sutton Coldfield Text by George John Earlier in the year we (George John) were asked to re-bury some remains that were found in our local area of Elmdon. The remains were a bit of a mystery, but we think we have managed to find out who they were. In total 16 remains were found and after reading the carbon dating report we can say that these people were from the 1700’s upto the 1900’s. In the pictures I have uploaded, are some of the handles found which we cleaned upusing electrolysis. Once we had done this, we were able to find a maker’s markand identify when the designs would have been used. The maker’s mark was H. R.Cooksey. This company was taken over by Ingall, Parsons and Clive. With thepictures and speaking with Sarah from The Coffin Works Museum in Birmingham(Formerly Newman Brothers), also coffin furniture makers, we dated the handles found between 1800 – 1900. After some extensive research using, ancestry, old survey maps, reports on headstones in the Elmdon area, we came to one conclusion. The remains of the people found were actually originally buried in Elmdon Church Yard. In the image of the headstone, you can just make out that the stone says ‘Sarah the wife of’. This was the only useful information we could use from the stone as all that we usually need was missing. This writing was a key identifier when a report on Elmdon Graveyard reports that the stone vanished between two different reports. During the time period between the reports, the church had an extension built, where the remains of people would be moved to the edge of the cemetery along with their headstone. Unfortunately to no fault of the church, and with no acceptable reason, we concluded that some of the poor souls buried were taken and buried in an unmarked grave down the road. Our job wasre turning them to rest. After having an order for burial granted by the coroner, we returned the people back into the Graveyard at Elmdon Church. We decided to do a funeral fitting for the era these people had died. We carried out a funeral that the Victorians would have been proud of. After discussing the service with Rev Toby Crowe formerly of Elmdon Church, we decided to use Scripture from an old bible from the 1700’s. We began by making a coffin that would have been in the style they had. Plain black with Victorian handles and breast plate. Sarah from the Coffin Works kindly let us have a set after we donated to the Charity, as seen in the image uploaded. We then had a funeral procession from our office in Hobs Moat Road, with our motor vehicles but most importantly the coffin was carried by a Black Horse Drawn Carriage and Horses. We used flaming torches to guide our way (Some traditions from the 1700’s),all the way through Elmdon Park (with prior council permission) to their final resting place in Elmdon Church Graveyard.