Woman discovered her twin brothers were buried in a mass grave with hundreds of other babies in a cemetery she walked through all the time
Daily MailA woman who helped discover a mass grave containing hundreds of dead babies - including her twin brothers - has revealed that the cemetery is one she walks through 'all the time.' The unmarked resting place was discovered in Royton Cemetery and contains the remains of 145 stillborn infants, 128 babies and young children and 29 adults The unmarked grave where 2020 bodies were buried including Sarah's, whose name has been changed for anonymities, twin brothers. Speaking to MailOnline, Sarah tragically revealed that her mother was buried in the same cemetery without knowing her twins were buried nearby 'I get upset speaking about it because my mother died and is buried in the same cemetery but she never knew they were there.’ For years Sarah had been attempting to find out what had happened to her brothers and described how the lack of any formal records led her to go on a 'merry-go-round' speaking to different officials from organisations including Oldham Council. Sarah had been attempting to find the burial site of her twin brother's who died in 1962 when her search led her to uncover they had been buried in a cemetery minutes away from her home 'I asked "Is it just them in the grave" and they replied: "there are 300 others".' Eventually, after hearing about Gina Jacob's story - a mother from The Wirral who found her child buried in a Birkenhead cemetery 53 years after he was stillborn - she reached out to Ms Jacobs for help The woman added: 'We accept that this happened and now what we would like is for a proper memorial to be placed on the site and for transparency from Oldham Council to tell families who is buried where.