Undertakers & Monumental Masons
by SLHS on
Friday 29 July 2016
Undertakers (or Funeral Directors) only appear in the trade directories starting at 1916. Before then, relatives of the deceased had to use undetakers from Alfreton or elswhere. Only when the population became large enough did undertakers move to Somercotes. There were also others in Riddings.
Monumental masons provide the headstones for graves. The first official cremation in England took place in 1885, and it would have been a long time before that form of funeral reached this area. Before that, everyone would have been buried, and many families commemorated their loved ones with a gravestone. Only two monumental masons appear in the liists. Today, the only firm of monumental masons in the local area is Cope Memorials, of Riddings.
| UNDERTAKERS & MONUMENTAL MASONS LISTED IN 1895 | |
| MORLEY, S. & Son | Monumental Masons - Somercotes |
| UNDERTAKERS & MONUMENTAL MASONS LISTED IN 1908: | |
| BOWDEN BROS | Monumental Masons - Leabrooks |
| UNDERTAKERS & MONUMENTAL MASONS LISTED IN 1916: | |
| BURT, Edmund Amos | Undertaker - Somercotes |
| UNDERTAKERS & MONUMENTAL MASONS LISTED IN 1932: | |
| DAWES, Charles & Son | Undertakers - Victoria Street, Somercotes |
| UNDERTAKERS & MONUMENTAL MASONS LISTED IN 1941: | |
| DAWES, Charles | Undertakers - Victoria Street, Somercotes |
| STORER, Arthur | Undertakers - Somercotes Hill |
| UNDERTAKERS & MONUMENTAL MASONS IN 1960: | |
| DAWES, R. S. | Undertaker - 18, Victoria Street, Somercotes |
| LOWE, Trafford | Undertaker - 80, Quarry Road, Somercotes |
| STORER, Arthur | Undertaker - Somercotes Hill (A. Storer & Sons moved premises in the 1990s to the old converted Weslyan Chapel on Nottingham Road, Somercotes. |