Please help me find a grave in Glasgow

ghostbike1 · Post by **ghostbike1** » Tue May 19, 2009 9:12 pm

Hi - have posted on many forums and found you in my long search. Have just about exhausted everything I can think of, Glasgow Council, Mitchell Libary, Society of Crematoriums etc. I want to find out where Agnes Young of 116 Drygate, Glasgow was buried. She died on 1st July 1929. Her parents lived in Bell Street. 80 years alone in a cemetary somewhere and no one (alive now) knew about her until a couple of months ago. Any thoughts........... Thank you.

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Tue May 19, 2009 9:40 pm

Hi ghostbike
and welcome to Talking Scot

One way to find out about a burial in Glasgow is to contact Glasgow City Council at:
Cemeteries & Crematoria Registrar
20 Trongate
Glasgow
G1 5ES

Phone:0141 287 3961
E-mail: les@glasgow.gov.uk
found at http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/ ... algrounds/

I believe they make a charge for providing burial information if a search is required. Not sure how much, but you could contact them to find out, but reading your post, maybe you have already done this?

Best wishes
Lesley

ghostbike1 · Post by **ghostbike1** » Tue May 19, 2009 9:42 pm

Hi, yes, already been in contact - no help (in the nicest possible way).

apanderson · Post by **apanderson** » Tue May 19, 2009 10:05 pm

I believe the charge is now £61.00 for a search.

Ludicrous (as far as I'm concerned!)

Anne

ghostbike1 · Post by **ghostbike1** » Tue May 19, 2009 10:20 pm

I didn't get offered a £61 search - got offered £12.61 per half hour search from glasgow council (which i may have to give them) but it'll probably take them hours since i don't know what cemetary she is in! I give the council enough money....................... over and out from sunny sauchie! eva

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Tue May 19, 2009 10:36 pm

Hi ghostbike

- got offered £12.61 per half hour search from glasgow council (which i may have to give them)

Not sure if I've picked up your post correctly - but if Glasgow council have not yet searched for the burial location, might there not be a chance that a search will locate it for you?

Had the family been in Glasgow for several generations? Might there have been a family plot elsewhere? Were the family well off or might they perhaps have been struggling? When and where did her parents die? Do you know where they are buried? Do you know what funeral directors were in the area? Have you followed up any records of funeral directors?

You may have covered all the above points and still be none the wiser, but she has to be somewhere. I don't know how long you have been looking, but I know from experience here on TS, that some burning questions can take years to solve. It just takes perseverance and a bit of creativity sometimes in thinking of other angles from which to approach the problem.

Best wishes
Lesley

Post by **AndrewP** » Tue May 19, 2009 11:28 pm

Hi Eva,

Amongst your Mitchell Library searches, did you include a look at newspaper archives - I am guessing probably the Glasgow Herald - for a funeral notice? As you have a date of death, the notice, if it is there should be fairly quick to find.

All the best,

AndrewP