Any and all advice appreciated !
Year ~ 1887 ~
Logically - would a individual be buried somewhere near where they died or if their 'family home' was elsewhere would one be buried there ?
I am trying to find a gravesite for my GG Grandmother who died in St. Quivoix, Ayrshire in 1887. To date I can find no record of her grave there and am curious if there was any tradition followed at that time.
At the time of her death her husband was still alive and presumably still living in St. Quivox, her parents also were still alive but lived elsewhere in Ayrshire.
Heather
Burial location.....
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Burial location.....
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Re: Burial location
HeatherHeatherV wrote:Any and all advice appreciated !
Year ~ 1887 ~
Logically - would a individual be buried somewhere near where they died or if their 'family home' was elsewhere would one be buried there ?
I am trying to find a gravesite for my GG Grandmother who died in St. Quivoix, Ayrshire in 1887. To date I can find no record of her grave there and am curious if there was any tradition followed at that time.
At the time of her death her husband was still alive and presumably still living in St. Quivox, her parents also were still alive but lived elsewhere in Ayrshire.
Heather
50 years previously I'd have said, look in her parish of birth....... but by this era, the tradition was no longer just that strong.
Things can get complicated..............
My father was born in Glasgow, his father in Montrose, and his wife's (my grandpa WEBSTER's wife) family came from Girvan. My eponymous grandpa chose to retire to Girvan, where he and Isabella (born Kilbarchan) are buried, and that's where my father chose to be buried ........ work that one out
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Sad comment ....... my father played golf, but, - he died when I was 12, - I haven't the faintest idea if David William WEBSTER played ............STUARTDALGLEISH wrote:Hi David,
They all chose Girvan so they could be near the best golf course in the world...the lovely Ailsa at Turnberry.
Cheers
Stuart
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So - logically - if this girl died where she, her husband and children lived the first place to look would be that area ? Perhaps the second logical place to look would be home area of her parents if they were still alive at the time of her death ?
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HeatherHeatherV wrote:So - logically - if this girl died where she, her husband and children lived the first place to look would be that area ? Perhaps the second logical place to look would be home area of her parents if they were still alive at the time of her death ?
Heatherv
I can't fault that logic.
Davie