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Ashes of man born in Victorian Era Still Unclaimed – BBC
A brief example of how Ashes Register has helped funeral directors to reunite ashes back to loved ones.
“Mr Smith said his firm had joined the Ashes Register, used by people seeking the location of a family member’s final resting place”
Funeral home adds uncollected ashes to database – BBC
A funeral home has added the details of 136 forgotten urns to an online database of uncollected ashes.
A.W. Lymn, which has sites in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire, said they had uploaded information of all cremated remains in their possession since before 2000 to The Ashes Register, an initiative designed to map the location of scattered ashes.
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Co-op to help unite families with loved ones’ lost ashes – Warwickshire World
Details of 725 unclaimed remains have been uploaded to The Ashes Register. The urns containing the ashes are being stored at 16 funeral homes in the Co-op’s trading area covering Coventry, Warwickshire, and parts of Northamptonshire and South Leicestershire.
“The Ashes Register was set up by Richard Martin to enable the public to register a set of ashes and to create a permanent record of where they were scattered. The unclaimed ashes section of the website is a recent addition.”
Sadness as ashes of a man cremated in Coventry remain unclaimed after almost 50 years – Coventry Live
“Sadly, another reason is that the deceased has no known next of kin. Some people also leave the ashes until they pass away themselves so that they can be scattered or buried with their loved ones.”
“In what the society has described as an ground-breaking online initiative, details of 725 unclaimed remains have been uploaded to The Ashes Register.”
The Nottingham funeral home reuniting families with unclaimed ashes – ITV
A family funeral service is supporting the UK’s first unclaimed ashes database. It comes as the ashes of Lemmy, from Motörhead, were laid to rest in Nottingham.
