I AM trying to locate the burial place of my relative Annie Mottershaw, of 8 Winter Street, Blackburn, who died, aged 20, on December 1, 1942, at Park Lee Hospital, Blackburn, which was called the Corporation Hospital at the time.

According to her obituary notice in the Northern Daily Telegraph, the funeral/arrangements were handled by undertakers James Robertshaws, of Coddington Street and Woolwich Street, Blackburn, but no details were given of any funeral memorial service or burial place.

As she died of tuberculosis, it is possible she was interred in an out-of-the-way cemetery, as, I understand was common practice at the time with anyone who died of the disease.

I have checked all the main cemeteries at Blackburn, Pleasington, Darwen and Accrington and the New Row cemetery at Heys Lane, Livesey, where TB victims were once buried. Annie Mottershaw is not buried in any of them.

Perhaps readers know of other cemeteries in Blackburn where victims of TB may have been buried around 1942; when there seems to have been quite an epidemic of the disease.

S COSGROVE (Mr), Whitebirk Road, Blackburn.