Who was George Gordon and what happened to his remains?

Who was George Gordon and what happened to his remains?

Letter from Brookwood Cemetery

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Steven Derby	6 April 2022 at 10:23
To: Menasche Scharf
Dear Menasche Thank you for sending the emails that I will read later today. Please see attached the letter I received from Maria Giordano, Senior Administrator at Brookwood Cemetery. It is not dated but I expect was in 2019. The Cemetery’s records are not as we might wish and what is related in the letter is based on research by John Clarke. You can read HS2 Reburials from Euston Station https://www.john-clarke.co.uk/hs2.html The interesting, but not enlightening, section from this article is below. It may help to contact John Clarke directly info@john-clarke.co.uk With best wishes, Steven Derby MSc., BSc., Dip. RS, MBPsS -------------------------------------------------- HS2 Reburials from Euston Station The next disturbance came, not in 1940 as explained above, but in the 1960s. At that time Euston was completely rebuilt under British Railways. This was part of a major rebuilding of the West Coast Main Line. The project included electrification and many other improvements to permit train speeds of 100mph and over. Similar to HS2, the preliminary work for this project involved further encroachments of the St James’ burial ground. This time the chapel, which served the surrounding burial ground, was demolished. The work took place during the summer of 1964. All the inscriptions on the tablets in the chapel were recorded. The tablets were then carefully packed in crates and deposited in the Diocesan store. [4]  The coffin plates were also recorded for the burials in the vaults beneath the chapel. 474 cases of human remains were then removed to Brookwood. However in addition, a further 428 identifiable human remains were reburied in private graves. The whole task cost nearly £19,500.  However it remains far from clear in what form these 428 individual reburials took place. It seems unlikely they were buried en masse since this would be at odds with the definition of a private grave. I have never located any of these graves - assuming they were marked (as private graves should be). Nor do the burial registers throw any light on these additional graves or where they might be located.