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Wales (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Wales => Denbighshire => Topic started by: despair on Thursday 16 August 12 21:11 BST (UK)
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The Morley Road Cemetery,Rhyl was landscaped and the plan and Monumental Inscriptions can be seen at Rhyl Library.
Does anyone know what happened to the tombstones/memorials?
Are they in store somewhere/can they be viewed?
An initial enquiry to Denbighshire C.C. suggested that those in sufficient condition were positioned around the perimeter,but that does not appear to be the case.
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Word has it that they were buried.
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Thanks for your response.Denbighshire C.C. suggested that was the fate of those in poor condition,perhaps it was true of all.Perhaps I will try to find a contemporary newspaper account.
Regards
Roger
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I have sent you a PM which may assist you.
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Morley Road Cemetery - I too am looking for burials there.
I have telephoned the Library at Rhyl, but sadly the person who knows all about them
(and it appears no-one else) is on holiday. There is a transcript I hear.
Not sure when she will be back ???????????????
I am lookiong for the burial of David Conway who died 1865 in Rhyl - late of Liverpool
Joan
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Yes,there is a book of monumental inscriptions and a hand drawn scale map of the relevant positions.I will probably be nearby next week and will call in to look for your record unless you post in the meantime that you have the info.
The cemetery was closed to new plots(but not new burials in the same plot) in 1891.
Regards
Roger
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David Conway died in June 1864 in Rhyl
For background,in case you don't have it,census refs as follows:-
1861 4296 38 12 Bryn y Wal (between Rhyl and Rhuddlan)
1851 2189 71 47 Haigh St. Liverpool
1841 560 13/13 19 Jones Court Liverpool
(amongst his family is John Conway,here an apprentice at law who goes on to become an attorney/barrister,but dies before his father)
1851 2183 502 46 Joy Street,Liverpool (articled clerk)
1861 2725 86 42 Holly Hedge,Moor Lane,Great Crosby (attorney at law)
Regards
Roger
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Hello Roger - I went to Hawarden on Friday last and checked out some burial places i,e.
Rhyl, Abergele - - do you know what happened to the other children of David/Elizabeth
Some of his early children died in Liverpool and are buried in St. John, Liverpool churchyard
If you want these, let me know please.
I am in the process of looking back to the family of the parents of David - i.e. Robert Conway and Ann Williams of Bodellwyddan..... he was a slater. The family go back to Abergele/Rhuddlan area...in the 17thc.
Robert was born c 1751 - but appears to be much older than Ann his wife who was born c 1776.
She died 1875 aged 91 years
Joan B
My story is from John Conway born 1799 and bapt. St. George - he married Elizabeth Jones in Liverpool 1824 and it is their daughter Jane who married Joseph Borrowscale in Liverpool
Joan
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Morley Road Cemetery - I too am looking for burials there.
I have telephoned the Library at Rhyl, but sadly the person who knows all about them
(and it appears no-one else) is on holiday. There is a transcript I hear.
Not sure when she will be back ???????????????
I am lookiong for the burial of David Conway who died 1865 in Rhyl - late of Liverpool
Joan
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Could anyone help -= I have a marriage at St.Clement Briton Ferry -
The groom was resident in ' Brotten Gorbeline' where is this please.
Joan
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The burial record for David Conway died 1864 Rhyl is under Dyserth(which would be St. Bridgets).As the Morley Road cemetery opened in 1859 and records exist for there from that date,it suggests he is buried in Dyserth.There are quite a few Conway burials in Dyserth,but none that obviously match your other data.There is a Mary,died 1851 who fits the profile of David's daughter-I think she is in Rhyl in 1851(ref 2506 196 23) described as a "gentlewoman",unmarried,born in Liverpool.However there is another Mary of similar age profile around and they would need to be distinguished.
I will still visit Rhyl Library and find any Conways in Morley Road,but perhaps it would be appropriate to start separate threads for this family and your Briton Ferry enquiry
Regards
Roger