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Title: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: RozG on Tuesday 31 May 11 03:20 BST (UK)
I would also like to know if I could find out where my great grandmother is burried, she died at Campsie NSW in 1954
I'm not sure what other info I  need.
OOppss suppose I should put her name down, LOL
Amy Ironside her husband was Samuel Ironside


Roz :-)
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: Jazzkitteh on Tuesday 31 May 11 05:37 BST (UK)
Hi - I just did your lookup.  No Amy Ironside listed as being buried there.
The funeral notice in the newspaper certainly indicates that she was taken to the Presbyterian Cemetary, Rookwood but she isnt in the Rookwood Cemetery Transcriptions CD.  Sorry  :(

...no Samuel Ironside listed either.
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: sparrett on Tuesday 31 May 11 06:37 BST (UK)
RozG,
We may be able to help further if you could tell us the names of the parents in the marriage.

That is---- SAMUEL and AMY.


Sue
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: cando on Tuesday 31 May 11 06:42 BST (UK)
Hi - I just did your lookup.  No Amy Ironside listed as being buried there.
The funeral notice in the newspaper certainly indicates that she was taken to the Presbyterian Cemetary, Rookwood but she isnt in the Rookwood Cemetery Transcriptions CD.  Sorry  :(

...no Samuel Ironside listed either.

Only graves with MI's will be on the resource.

No burial record for either Amy or Samuel in the Presbyterian Section of Rookwood.
http://www.rookwoodindependent.com.au/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=11

Funeral notice
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0dim/

Is this Samuel's death?

21808/1933    
IRONSIDE    Samuel
Father William  Mother Ann
District Tumut     

Cheers
Cando
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: cando on Tuesday 31 May 11 06:47 BST (UK)
Info about the family
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,376758.0.html

Cheers
Cando
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: cando on Tuesday 31 May 11 07:04 BST (UK)
To add the electoral roll in on the linked thread...

Australian Electoral Roll
1937
IRONSIDE Amy  Batlow  HD
IRONSIDE Edna Merle  Batlow  HD
IRONSIDE George Solomon  Batlow  Labourer

1943, 1949, 1954
IRONSIDE Amy  18 Cambridge Avenue, Bankstown  HD


This group hold burial records for cemeteries in the Tumut Shire including Batlow.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nswtfhg/Cemeteries.html

Cando
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: RozG on Tuesday 31 May 11 08:22 BST (UK)
Hi sue,
Sorry to take so long in replying, my internet went down this afternoon..

Amy parents were Samuel and Emma Smith ( Conventry )

and i'm positive Samuel Ironside was buried at Batlow or Tumut

Roz


RozG,
We may be able to help further if you could tell us the names of the parents in the marriage.

That is---- SAMUEL and AMY.


Sue
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: RozG on Tuesday 31 May 11 08:23 BST (UK)
Thanks Cando.
This is my great grandmother her brother and his wife..

Roz :-)
To add the electoral roll in on the linked thread...

Australian Electoral Roll
1937
IRONSIDE Amy  Batlow  HD
IRONSIDE Edna Merle  Batlow  HD
IRONSIDE George Solomon  Batlow  Labourer

1943, 1949, 1954
IRONSIDE Amy  18 Cambridge Avenue, Bankstown  HD


This group hold burial records for cemeteries in the Tumut Shire including Batlow.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nswtfhg/Cemeteries.html

Cando
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: RozG on Tuesday 31 May 11 08:29 BST (UK)
Yes this is Samuels death, I do know he was buried at Batlow/Tumut
My mum said that Amy was buried at Rookwood, weird hey....

Thanks for you help ..

Roz :-)




Hi - I just did your lookup.  No Amy Ironside listed as being buried there.
The funeral notice in the newspaper certainly indicates that she was taken to the Presbyterian Cemetary, Rookwood but she isnt in the Rookwood Cemetery Transcriptions CD.  Sorry  :(

...no Samuel Ironside listed either.

Only graves with MI's will be on the resource.

No burial record for either Amy or Samuel in the Presbyterian Section of Rookwood.
http://www.rookwoodindependent.com.au/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=11

Funeral notice
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0dim/

Is this Samuel's death?

21808/1933    
IRONSIDE    Samuel
Father William  Mother Ann
District Tumut     

Cheers
Cando

Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: cando on Wednesday 01 June 11 05:04 BST (UK)
Quote
Is this Samuel's death?

21808/1933    
IRONSIDE    Samuel
Father William  Mother Ann
District Tumut     

Cheers
Cando

Yes this is Samuels death, I do know he was buried at Batlow/Tumut
My mum said that Amy was buried at Rookwood, weird hey....

Thanks for you help ..

Roz :-)


Roz I don't think it is weird that your grandmother was buried at Rookwood. Her death was registered in the District of Campsie although her electoral roll listing was Bankstown,  and it may have been an expensive exercise to bury her at Batlow or Tumut with her husband.

I have given you a link where you can seek help with Samuel's actual place of burial.

I suggest you contact the Independent Section of Rookwood cemetery that maintains the records for the Methodist and Presbyterian [including the Presbyterian burials at Field of Mars]
http://www.rookwoodindependent.com.au/
and read or show them of the Funeral Notice from the Sydney Morning Herald dated 8th October, 1954



Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: CassT on Wednesday 01 June 11 06:18 BST (UK)
Hi

I have found a similar situation where I had a death / funeral notice yet could not find information on a cemetery website, I found that the problem was  transcribing the original  "crook" handwriting.

I did a search on the Independant website using just AMY and found this

Presbyterian  5G 0000482

ARENSIELL  AMY  06 Oct 1954

I had a look on Trove and the NSW BDM  for Amy ARENSIELL and found nothing.

I am wondering if this could be your Amy, with a bit of imagination you could mistake    IRONSIDE for ARENSIELL

Regards

Cass 
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: cando on Wednesday 01 June 11 06:32 BST (UK)
Spot on Cass :)  I agree with you.  The date given is obviously the date of death not date of service as funeral notice was dated 8 Oct.

Cheers
Cando
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: kesham on Wednesday 01 June 11 07:00 BST (UK)







Hi

I have found a similar situation where I had a death / funeral notice yet could not find information on a cemetery website, I found that the problem was  transcribing the original  "crook" handwriting.

I did a search on the Independant website using just AMY and found this

Presbyterian  5G 0000482

ARENSIELL  AMY  06 Oct 1954

I had a look on Trove and the NSW BDM  for Amy ARENSIELL and found nothing.

I am wondering if this could be your Amy, with a bit of imagination you could mistake    IRONSIDE for ARENSIELL

Regards

Cass 
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: RozG on Wednesday 01 June 11 07:15 BST (UK)

You know you could be right, this does look like her, so the best thing I could do is go to Rookwood and try to find her grave and see what is written on it??






Hi

I have found a similar situation where I had a death / funeral notice yet could not find information on a cemetery website, I found that the problem was  transcribing the original  "crook" handwriting.

I did a search on the Independant website using just AMY and found this

Presbyterian  5G 0000482

ARENSIELL  AMY  06 Oct 1954

I had a look on Trove and the NSW BDM  for Amy ARENSIELL and found nothing.

I am wondering if this could be your Amy, with a bit of imagination you could mistake    IRONSIDE for ARENSIELL

Regards

Cass 
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: cando on Wednesday 01 June 11 07:45 BST (UK)
ARENSIELL Amy  84 years
Date of burial   6 Oct 1954
Denomination   Presbyterian
Section   5G   Grave Number#   0000482

Is this her birth....

Births Mar 1870
SMITH    Amy    Whitchurch, H..    2c/   220

The district Whitchurch, Hampshire. is an alternative name for Whitchurch H and it is in the county of Hampshire which includes the district of Overton.

1871 Census RG10/1239/26/2
Living at Turrel Hill Farm, Overton, Hampshire
SMITH Samuel  25 years  Head  Married  Farm Labourer  Born Bradfield Berkshire
SMITH Emma  20 years  Wife   Born Itchenswell, Berkshire
SMITH Amy  Dau  1 year  Born Overton, Hampshire
COVENTRY Agnes  Visitor  7 years   Born Ischenswell, Berkshire

Cheers
Cando
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: cando on Wednesday 01 June 11 08:20 BST (UK)
And her parents' marriage

Marriages Sep 1869   
SMITH Samuel     Bradfield    2c/614
COVENTY Emma   Bradfield 2c/614

Roz it would be doubtful that the transcribers of the memorial inscriptions from the Society of Australian Genealogists at Rookwood would make an error transcribing from a headstone, unless of course, the inscription was illegible.  Amy's grave does not have a headstone. 

I would mention that the date of burial on the website for Amy would be her date of death as she was buried on 8th Oct 1954 according to the Sydney Morning Herald funeral notice. 

Cheers
Cando
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: RozG on Wednesday 01 June 11 08:34 BST (UK)
Yes this is Amy's birth and her family...... I do have her birth certificate, she must have needed it around 1931  as the date on the bottom say's 26th feb 1931







ARENSIELL Amy  84 years
Date of burial   6 Oct 1954
Denomination   Presbyterian
Section   5G   Grave Number#   0000482



 



Is this her birth....

Births Mar 1870
SMITH    Amy    Whitchurch, H..    2c/   220

The district Whitchurch, Hampshire. is an alternative name for Whitchurch H and it is in the county of Hampshire which includes the district of Overton.

1871 Census RG10/1239/26/2
Living at Turrel Hill Farm, Overton, Hampshire
SMITH Samuel  25 years  Head  Married  Farm Labourer  Born Bradfield Berkshire
SMITH Emma  20 years  Wife   Born Itchenswell, Berkshire
SMITH Amy  Dau  1 year  Born Overton, Hampshire
COVENTRY Agnes  Visitor  7 years   Born Ischenswell, Berkshire

Cheers
Cando
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: RozG on Wednesday 01 June 11 08:36 BST (UK)
I asked my mum about the headstone, but as her memory isnt very good anymore she said she couldnt remember if they had the money to put on one, if that is the case how do they know who is buried there plus how would I find out ???

Thanks for your help

And her parents' marriage

Marriages Sep 1869   
SMITH Samuel     Bradfield    2c/614
COVENTY Emma   Bradfield 2c/614

Roz it would be doubtful that the transcribers of the memorial inscriptions from the Society of Australian Genealogists at Rookwood would make an error transcribing from a headstone, unless of course, the inscription was illegible.  Amy's grave does not have a headstone. 

I would mention that the date of burial on the website for Amy would be her date of death as she was buried on 8th Oct 1954 according to the Sydney Morning Herald funeral notice. 

Cheers
Cando
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: cando on Wednesday 01 June 11 09:14 BST (UK)
You have been given the details of the burial including location.  There is no headstone according the the transcriptions of headstones at Rookwood Cemetery.

Quote
how do they know who is buried theer
Roz
All cemeteries maintain a burial register.  This is required by law.

You can search here for her burial, however you must search just using AMY as a given name and no surname, and scroll down to Amy buried [according to the index] 6 Oct 1954.

http://www.rookwoodindependent.com.au/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=11

Click on map....and wait and wait ;)  Eventually the details will appear on the right of the page that Amy was 84 years of age.

Perhaps Amy needed her birth certificate in 1931 to apply for the aged pension.

Cheers
Cando
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: RozG on Wednesday 01 June 11 10:20 BST (UK)
Thank You  :)
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: RozG on Wednesday 01 June 11 11:33 BST (UK)
I have looked up the Rookwood site and put in just Amy and all that came up with the closet date was ...
ARENSIELL  AMY  06 Oct 1954
So I looked again with her full name Amy Ironside and nothing, now I am really lost :-(
So does this mean that Amy Arensiell could be my Amy????
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: cando on Wednesday 01 June 11 15:06 BST (UK)
Roz the information about Amy ARENSIELL was posted by Cass and I agree with her.  May I suggest that you go back and read all the information on the thread very carefully. 

Of course you can contact the cemetery as I suggested on one of my posts....link to website with contact details also posted previously.

Good luck.

Cheers
Cando
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: RozG on Wednesday 01 June 11 22:18 BST (UK)
Thanks again Cando.
I think I will contact Rookwood, it does look like to me that this Amy is my Amy....
Same age, same death date..
Thanks all for your help, much appreciated
Roz :-)
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: CassT on Friday 03 June 11 00:12 BST (UK)
Hi Roz

could you let us know the outcome, I would love to know if it is your Amy

Cass
Title: Re: Rockwood Cemetery Lookup Please
Post by: RozG on Friday 03 June 11 12:24 BST (UK)
Hi Cass..

Yep will let you know as soon as i get some info..
Thanks all for  your help

Roz :-)