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Wales (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Wales => Caernarvonshire => Topic started by: Huwcyn on Thursday 29 December 11 23:33 GMT (UK)
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I was looking around this graveyard yesterday morning , and I was surprised how unordered it seemed . There was a notice saying that the council intended to do some safety work early in 2012, so I wondered whether some headstones were going to be removed (Some were certainly at a precarious angle) .
Have any MI's ever been done for this graveyard , and are there burial/plot records anywhere ? . There aren't all that many graveyards in Bangor , and a lot of the people referred to in Bangor threads must be buried there .
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Due to health and safety regs brought in by the govt., councils are liable for injuries to anyone using cemetaries so the Bangor council now lay the headstones down flat where there is room to do so, rather than incurring the cost of putting them upright. I have about half of this cemetary listed with photos of gravestones where readable.
The Northern end of the cemetary has a very limited number of headstones as this is the area the less well off or non-Bangorians are buried.
There is a map available at the Bangor crematorium that has all grave numbers listed and they are very helpful in supplying information about relatives.
I've been busy for the last 12 months but hope I can help once I get myself organised lol
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A little more info for any one reading this thread ...
All the gravestones in Bangor Cathedral Churchyard were removed in the 1940s.
The MIs were recorded and are in the University of Wales Bangor, Dept of Archives.
Burials ceased in the Cathedral Churchyard in 1855 when it became full.
Until the public cemetery was opened at Glanadda in 1862, burials took place at Pentir, which was in the parish of Bangor.
There is also a cemetary at Llandegai
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Thank you for your reply. I visited Glanadda again yesterday morning , and I was wondering whether the area suffered from subsidence. An unusually large number of headstones seem to lean .
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It is clay soil on the whole and has quite a slope over the whole area. Clay contracts and expands with the weather and since some graves are nearly 150 years old I'm surprised a lot more haven't fallen over. It's also worth remembering that people were buried in coffins and these do rot down so the ground above will sink eventually which is why the soil is mounted up at the time of burial.
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Dear Huwcyn,
Thanks for that interesting bit of information. I'd read somewhere that the Gwynedd History Society are cataloguing the MI's & it stretches to ?? 12 volumes. Have you come across the Reverend John Mostyn Jones who died in Glannadda in 1911 with his wife Margaret who died in 1935. It is one grave that I need to photograph. He was the Methodist minister at Glanadda MC Chapel.
Regards
Alwyn