Very definite brick wall

mallog · Post by **mallog** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:02 pm

Alienore wrote:Well, I am absolutely delighted with the information you wonderful people have found for us.

I think you will find there's never a "very definite brick wall " on this board not with the brilliant folk here. They are like ferrets

They love a challenge.

I'm really enjoying reading about Eliza

Alienore · Post by **Alienore** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:15 am

Thanks to all the fantastic information a kind soul here has looked up for us, a certain brick wall now has chinks in it!

Mum and I have had a chat and she is very hopeful that the Eliza born around 1818 in St Mary's Jamaica is our Eliza. If that's the case, we have far more detail to go on than we've ever had before.

Now all I need to find out is where she was buried!

Deborah

Post by **joette** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:50 pm

Hey maybe the BBC will fly you over to find it(tongue very firmly in cheek)

Alienore · Post by **Alienore** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:47 pm

I like that idea, Joette! I can see Mum and I having a visit to Jamaica at some point but we'd need very detailed information on Eliza to make it worth our while.

Seriously, though, Eliza died in Richard St, Glasgow in June of 1881. I don't know where she was buried and part of the problem there lies in the fact that large chunks of Anderston (including the North St cemetery) were dug up and destroyed in the 1960s when the motorways and fancy buildings were being constructed.

A visit to the Mitchell to find further info would be a good move but I'd need to have specific data to work with - I hate going there with no real idea of what or where I'm going to work on.

Deborah