My English GreatGrandparents James Broomfield and Helen (Hellen/Halland) Coles Broomfield

Steve and I were called to serve in the England South Mission, later the England London Mission and left in May of 2017.  For the first seven months we lived and served in St. Peter Port, Guernsey. That's another story. But before we went to Guernsey we lived for a week in a flat in East Grinstead, near the London Temple. There was going to be a conference in the London area and our mission president told us to go and do anything we wanted for the next week so we could be near for the conference. Do anything we wanted ...Of course my mind went right to family history and in particular my Broomfield and Coles families. We had a car and I knew where my grandmother Isabella Broomfield Rahier was born, 15 Bonnington Square, as I had been there in 1995, when I took my mother Catherine (Kay) Rahier Lillie and my aunt Angela Rahier Quinn to Europe, but my grandmother or my mother had given me two burial cards for their grandparents and I wanted to find their burial sites. On the card for James Broomfield, Streatham Cemetery was listed as his resting place. It also gave the grave number so I thought it would be an easy find. Streatham Cemetery is located on Garratt Lane, Tooting, Wandsworth, Greater London, near Wimbledon Tennis Club. Like we always did, we drove around, drove past a number of times and had to turn around. That day the cemetery was closed and we had to come back later. Such a disappointment! 

But go back we did! I couldn't find a headstone and was really puzzled as there was just a large mound of grass and wild flowers. The cemetery office was open and after waiting for a little while the employee told me that there was no one buried in that area. I showed him the burial cards and then he was puzzled. so he went to the huge master books and looked up the plot. It was there but it was a pauper's grave with many buried there. I had never experienced looking at a common pauper's grave before. He and his brothers had been quite successful in the dairy business in south east London. The newspapers have articles about their business. 

This is the paupers grave where James Broomfield is buried.
 I looks quite peaceful, but there are many buried there.
After all he had accomplished in his life this is his final
resting spot at least for his body.
 R.I.P.  Great Grandfather!