Hilton Hilton-Barber - Burial place Source

Hi Sharon.
Andrew's mothers school friends in Convent in Bulawayo.
His father says the grandfather Hilton Hilton-Barber buried in Grahamstown.

He was not born in Nottingham as your curator note says but in Grahamstown .
His father born in Nottingham, England

Sharon/Phillipp
Thank you. I will have a look. My great grandmother, Hilton's sister is buried in New Cemetery, Grahamstown and i recall a whole row of Hilton-Barber graves a row or so west of her grave. They all had similar gravestones, which seemed to be a Barber preference. I do however have doubts.

Phillipp, Absolutely correct. Not born Nottingham. He was born on the farm HILTON on the road north from Grahamstown to Carlisle Bridge. Hence the name Hilton.
I have now been through all the eGGSA gravestone records for Grahamstown and in particular New Cemetery - Waainek - and while there are many Hilton-Barber's buried there, I find no record of one for Hilton (Note that these are currently indexed erroneously under SP rather than HI or BA)
These are the graves I recall seeing when I visited last in 2013 to see my great grandmother's (Frances Harriett EBDEN (BARBER)'s grave. She died 1931 and surely if her grave is in reasonable condition one for Hilton HILTON-BARBER from 1928 would not be in significantly worse condition.
Any chance that the cemetery in Grahamstown could be identified. On Hilton Farm possibly as that farm was owned by his son (Monty I think) at some stage, and he may have chosen to return to the place of his birth? Farm now owned by the WHITE family. I will make contact with them.

Just remember for some reason not all gravestones photographed and listed.

I will post Hilton HILTON-BARBER's Civil Death Notice from https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5FC-9BZT?i=356&am... as a source on his profile. This clearly states the intended place of burial to be Cradock.

I do realise that not all graves are in the EGGSA database. Thanks for the reminder. I think we need to focus on Cradock not Grahamstown.

Appears someone will have to visit Cradock.

His place of death changed according to civil death notice

Sharon remember to change curator note here his place of birth not Nottingham

Rozanne Barlow (direct descendant of Hilton Hilton-Barber has just messaged from Cradock that she has located the missing grave in the main cemetery in Cradock.

I will upload her picture shortly.

Mystery solved.

Good news.