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Dear Alastair,

This has been a regular question, over the years. I attach a pdf of the press report (NY Times, June 15 1899) which describes Caroline carrying a porphyry urn, containing Josephine's ashes, aboard ship for the return to England. The NYT suggests that the ashes were to be interred in a family grave in Rottingdean, but there seems to be no record of a ceremony at the plot where Uncle Ned 's ashes had been buried the year before. It is worth remembering Rudyard's approval of that ceremony: 'There was no mobbing; no jabber; no idiotic condolences'.

Best regards,

John

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Alastair Wilson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
When Josephine Kipling died in New York in 1899, she was cremated (Lycett, Rudyard Kipling, p. 313-4), but no mention is made of the disposal of her ashes.  We do know that, 8-10 June 1899, Carrie  and her mother went up to 'Naulakha', at Brattleboro, the last time Rudyard or Carrie went to the house.  Did Carrie take Josephine's ashes and scatter, or inter them, at 'Naulakha'?.  'Naulakha' had been Josephine's home for the longest period of her life, so it seems possible that Carrie might have decided to leave her to rest in the neighbourhood where Carrie herself had spent much of her life. 
Does anyone Know, please?  (The capital 'K' is deliberate.)
The query is triggered by an entry in the Carrington and Rees extracts on the occasion of Carrie's mother's death 23 March 1919, in which Carrie writes that "her death tears up all the roots I have left of my child, home and life."

Alastair Wilson