Burials in Glasgow

[weeknightingale]

Another place to search may be the Wylie and Lochhead collections at Glasgow University Archives. Wylie and Lochhead were the "big" undertakers in the area for many years, so they were responsible for many funerals and of course, the funeral detail in the register would include the place of burial. http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/

Thanks Lesley! Happy New Year!

I have found one Robin lair at Cardonald Cemetery through a very good Samaritan who went to the Mitchell library. Wish I could come to Scotland myself. I would love to visit some childhood places and puruse and research in the Mitchell library! Thanks on the heads-up on the above link.

K

[apanderson]

I was having a wee look at a site mentioned by Wilma in an earlier post and noticed what might be a Robin family (4 individuals) listed in Janefield Cemetery (aka the Eastern Necropolis), Glasgow, see: http://www.memento-mori.co.uk/32.pdf (Page 20, Nos, 1014 - 1017).

Anne

[David Lang]

Most of my Partick Burials are at 2 locations

Lambhill or Cardonald both are massive but if contact the city council they will look for a lair for you ( although they are very slow in getting back to you)

Also depends on religion , if they are RC they maybe buried elsewhere

[weeknightingale]

I was having a wee look at a site mentioned by Wilma in an earlier post and noticed what might be a Robin family (4 individuals) listed in Janefield Cemetery (aka the Eastern Necropolis), Glasgow, see: http://www.memento-mori.co.uk/32.pdf (Page 20, Nos, 1014 - 1017).

Anne

Thank you, for checking I also found that out. Takes time to go through all those lists!
I have the wills now of several family ancestors. The ROBIN lairs that you found are George Robin & family. He was my great-great-grandfather Robert Robin's brother. Fantastic find! Thank you for checking!

1870 464 Gallowgate, Glasgow License Holders 1875...for George Robin... Gallowgate Pubs http://www.oldglasgowpubs.co.uk/gallowgate.html
1888 Lair:1014 (1014-17) plus in lair 1015 son George age 24 9 Oct 1896 and lair 1016 third wife Jane Currie 25 Dec 1911


K

[weeknightingale]

Most of my Partick Burials are at 2 locations

Lambhill or Cardonald both are massive but if contact the city council they will look for a lair for you ( although they are very slow in getting back to you)

Also depends on religion , if they are RC they maybe buried elsewhere

A nice person in Glasgow went to the Mitchell Library and looked up and found that my grandfather, William Robin, had purchased several lairs at Cardonald Cemetery in 1920. He also went to the cemetery after making an appointment with the caretaker to help him find the lairs. Lucky the one fallen headstone fell back so the inscription could be seen: the others are face down in the brush. Trying to put a photograph up sorry not working!

Good Luck! It's hard work searching especially when you are on the other side of the world!

[weeknightingale]

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Cardonald Cemetery
K

[dizzybint]

Dona Id think Janefield on the Gallowgate near Parkhead Cross, is likely unless catholic, and then it might have been Dalbeth. The others are Sandymount in that area.

[dizzybint]

Searching for a baby, George Brown, died in the late 30s age five months I think, his mother and father were Eva and Matthew Brown of Tamworth st Bridgeton or Milend.. He was buried in Sandymount cemetery, and his sister has asked me to try and find the grave so that she might at last visit, as she never got to meet her brother.. She said between 1935 and 37.

[apanderson]

Sandymount's Burial Records haven't been digitised, so aren't available on microfilm.

The Mitchell has Ground Sales Records (Lair Owner's records 'of sorts'), but to find anything in this, you really have to know a date of death and hopefully, that person will be the first to be interred in that particular lair, so the lair would be purchased for them. If however, that person is not the first to be buried, you then have to figure out who might have been interred there before them - and the process starts all over again!

The only other alternative is to fork out £62 for a search carried out by Cems & Crems at Trongate.

Anne

[nelmit]

You could try and find his date of death with a search SP. Between 1934 - 1938 there are 3 deaths indexed of a George Brown age 0 at Lanarkshire. Unfortunately none of them are at Bridgeton or Camlachie. One is at College district but I'm afraid I don't know which area that covers.

At least that would give you a start.

Regards,
Annette