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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: Forfarian on Sunday 21 September 14 16:49 BST (UK)
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Does anyone have easy access to burial records or post-1855 MIs in Douglas?
Jeanie Bannatyne was born in Douglas in 1846, daughter of Thomas Bannatyne and Jeanie Brown. Thomas was a farmer and railway contractor, and farmed at Springhill, Douglas. In 1871 Jeanie married Benjamin Peach at Springhill. They had six children, three of whom died young, and I would like to find out where Jeanie and those three children are buried. They are not buried with Benjamin Peach in Grange Cemetery in Edinburgh.
The first to die was four-month-old Thomas Bannatyne Peach, who died at Springhill on 6 January 1881. Then Christina, aged 4, died in 1883. Jeanie died in 1884, aged 37, then Jemima, aged 10, in 1887, all in Edinburgh.
I wonder whether perhaps the baby Thomas was buried in a family plot in Douglas, and when his mother and sisters died they too were buried there with him and with her family?
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http://www.lanarkshirefhs.org.uk/mideath-pubs.html
Bear in mind there may not be a headstone
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Bear in mind there may not be a headstone
Thank you.
Yes, I am aware of that possibility. That is why I put 'burial records' rather than 'MIs' first in my original post ;)
If anyone out there has a copy of the relevant booklet, I would be grateful for a lookup to save me waiting for it to arrive by post.
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I have the Douglas death records published by the Lanarkshire FHS and there are no Peach listed. I have also checked the MI's for Douglas St Brides again nothing, and a scan through the OPR's again lists no Peach.
Bravaal
from Douglas
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Thanks, Bravaal. Much appreciated.
I suppose they must all be in Edinburgh then - but odd that they would take the baby all the way back there from Douglas, when they had only lived in Edinburgh for about a year.
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This may be a silly suggestion but have you tried looking for MI's under Bannatyne rather than Peach?.....there are lots of them buried in Douglas
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This may be a silly suggestion but have you tried looking for MI's under Bannatyne rather than Peach?.....there are lots of them buried in Douglas
It's not at all silly, and it's why I headed the query with Bannatyne, even though it's really the Peach family that I'm researching. I'm sure Bravaal will have checked the lairs owned by Bannatynes.
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Peach is in the death index of the St Brides Churchyard booklet
I only have the index pages
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Aha! Does it just list the surname, or can you deduce how many people of that name there might be there?
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Surnames only....
but for the same index number there are also Bannatyne, Hay and Barwell. 8)
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Surnames only....
but for the same index number there are also Bannatyne, Hay and Barwell. 8)
That's the ones I am after. All three of those surnames are multiply linked with the Peach family, who seem to have had a propensity to marry their cousins. Thanks, Sancti, that's terrific help :)
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A wonderful thing is a library. I have now seen the booklet with the transcription of that gravestone, and armed with the dates and places of death of the persons listed I have contacted the South Lanarkshire Council to ask which of them is actually buried there.
Thanks everyone for your help.
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I notice the last comment here is a while ago but I live local to the graveyard at douglas and I can help in anyway please let me know
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Thank you, Amanda, for your kind offer.
What I was really after was burial records rather than inscriptions. However it was all for an article about Ben Peach, which has since been published, so it isn't important now.