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Is there any way of finding out where people are buried, never knew my grandparents and having lost my mum 4 months ago have no more family members to ask.
Do an ancestry search? Records of deaths should show where they died, should be a bit easier to trace cemetery / church records for burials from there
Won’t work for cremations though, ashes could be scattered anywhere
I'd start with the register of deaths via the freeBMD.org*. That will tell you the district where the death was registered. You'll then need to ask them for a copy of the death certificate and further details.
* Not complete yet, my parents' records haven't been transcribed for example but my grandparents have.
Findagrave.com is worth a punt.
Otherwise, first Ancestry to get an idea of where people died and then either look round the local churchyards and cemeteries or write to whoever holds the records for them.
It's pretty cheap to get copies of wills and they can include instructions re burial / cremation. Local crematoria should also (???) have records.
freebmd is good for free check of record indexes
Ancestry or findmypast for more detailed searches and some records, but realistically you'd need to have a paid subscription to get the best out of them, but for that you are likely to see real images of some real records... eg the 1939 register, possibly a marriage entry from church records, possibly a burial entry etc., the 1911 census (more likely to be great grandparents there).
might not be exactly what you're looking for, but one more piece to the jigsaw might be what is needed to help
freebmd will give the index entry page references that GRO need to get a copy of a certificate
Check your local library website, ours is doing free access to Ancestry while in person opening is limited, together with ebooks and music subscriptions.
good shout
the library also probably has a subsciption to the newspaper archives too, where one may find an obituary
(although the only ones I've found for my family are great-great-gandparents or higher up the family tree, some for nefarious reasons and others as popular upstanding member of the community)
County Records Office/Archive may have some records?