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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Dublin => Topic started by: mcmahongg on Monday 27 May 13 12:42 BST (UK)
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Hi
I'm looking for burial places of members of a family living in the Stephens Street and Georges Street areas who died c1880-1920. I have access to Glasnevin, Mount Jerome and Deansgrange cemeteries records for the period. I have found a few of the required entries, but it looks like the majority were not buried in the major cemeteries.
The family wasn't well-off and burial in more distant locations outside Dublin looks unlikely? Are there any other cemeteries that might be considered for the period?
Thanks for any advice
Gerry
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there's a directory of Dublin graveyards on the Dublin City Library website - see :
Dublin City & County Graveyards (http://dublinheritage.ie/graveyards/search.php)
Have you found newspaper death notices for any of the family ?
These sometimes mentioned the name of the cemetery...
Most of the city cemeteries would have been closed by the 1880s, so I would think somewhere outside the city is most likely.
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Where did the family come from originally?
Some of OH's family, though living in Dublin, were buried in various cemeteries in Wicklow and Wexford, where they had originated.
eadaoin
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These people were inner-city based at least back to the early nineteenth century. I'd be surprised if tenement dwellers could afford transport to distant cemeteries outside the city.
I wonder if it's possible that the burials were in areas of the major cemeteries where burials were not individually recorded?
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The search gets more difficult if one of the cemeteries associated with an RC church were were used, as burials were not usually included in parish records. If a family couldn't afford a burial, one would probably have been arranged by the appropriate Poor Law Union, possibly accounting for some of the gaps.
Have you located death certs for any of the people to establish where they died ?
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have you tried glasnevin using initial system and the addresses if you have them, i recently found a death using this system i went through every letter of the alphabet ,i know its long and laborius ,i found one of my italian relatives by the name of philomena recorded as flumina i asked the trust to change it but they more or less said thats whats recorded in the book.
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Thanks everyone for your help! Yes - I have the death certs so I know the dates and places of death. I've carefully checked the Glasnevin, Mount Jerome and Deansgrange burial registers but nothing found for many of them (a few I've found in Glasnevin - I've also checked the full listings for these graves).
Poverty was likely a factor - I wonder if burials arranged by the Poor Law Union might be in special cemetery areas without individual recording of names? Perhaps Poor Law Union records would hold clues?
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could some of these people be buried in one of the workhouse burial grounds,rathdown workhouse near loughlinstown south county Dublin has a large unmarked burial plot.