How to find burial location in Toronto?

Martha3671

I found a potential match death record for one of my brick walls, Annie Aitken. Can anyone offer a suggestion for how to find her burial location? I've already looked in the Toronto Trust Cemetery collection and also on Mount Pleasant Group's site. Here's the death record:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark%3A/61903/3%3A1%3A3Q93-C9YJ-2SF8-C?i=1486&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AJ6SN-MT1

Thanks for any suggestions!

Paul W

If you do not get a response here I suggest posting your question under the Canada Research group at https://community.familysearch.org/en/group/17-canada-research.

Áine Ní Donnghaile

The URL rescued from the mangler: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q93-C9YJ-2SF8-C

Martha3671

Thanks! I actually tried the Canada page, and it doesn't seem very active. :o) I appreciate your ideas!

AnneLoForteWillson

The death record gives the deceased's religion. That should help you narrow down the possible churches that might have overseen her burial.

Martha3671

Hi Anne,

Thanks for the hint. The only death record I've found for her is the handwritten one linked above, and it doesn't show a religion. I've checked all the Toronto Trust Cemeteries, and I have corresponded with St. James Cemetery, but I still haven't found her. Any other ideas would be welcome! Thanks again!

Martha

Áine Ní Donnghaile

@Martha3671 The death record you linked shows her religion as Protestant.

Martha3671

Thank you. Unfortunately, Protestant isn't specific enough for me to find her.

Paul W

@Martha3671

Unfortunately, any suggestions will probably only be as useful as those you are able to think of yourself. Unless the details have been added to a website like "Find A Grave" or the Billion Graves Index, how would anyone, anywhere get to find the (unknown) burial place of a relative? You can only really hope to get somewhere by compiling a list of all known cemeteries in the Toronto area and contacting them in a hope of a positive response. Think about it - the same problem is probably being encountered by many thousands of researchers worldwide: if you don't live near the area in question, or the details have not been indexed on a website, naturally this will be no easy task.

Martha3671

Thank you, Paul. I appreciate that. Sometimes there is a creative suggestion out there, and that's what I was hoping for -- perhaps a record I hadn't thought of or an obscure cemetery. I haven't given up on finding this ancestor, but I'm getting close to reasonably exhaustive effort.