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Title: Check for Plot at Douglas Borough Cemetery
Post by: nickiejo on Friday 10 May 19 11:28 BST (UK)
There is an entry on www.imuseum.im for:
Edward Brittain Winter
Age 35
Buried 24 Aug 1900
Burial place: Onchan
Biography:35 years Douglas Borough

Not sure whether that last line means he is buried in Douglas Borough Cemetery.  If so, I would really appreciate knowing whether he has a headstone, or at least a plot number.

Thank you for any help you can give me.
Title: Re: Check for Plot at Douglas Borough Cemetery
Post by: KGarrad on Friday 10 May 19 23:35 BST (UK)
That entry infers that he was buried in Onchan?

But burial entry is in the Douglas Borough Cemetery burial lists.

I am busy with the Manx National Rally tomorrow, and then will have to wait until Wednesday when the Manx Museum Library next opens.
But I can then check the MI books.
Title: Re: Check for Plot at Douglas Borough Cemetery
Post by: nickiejo on Saturday 11 May 19 07:50 BST (UK)
Many thanks. I got confused with which index I had been looking at. It was Ancestry's Isle of Man burial index which confusingly had Onchan against "burial place".
It is kind to offer to check the MI books.
Title: Re: Check for Plot at Douglas Borough Cemetery
Post by: Frances_mnb on Sunday 12 May 19 08:58 BST (UK)
it's the stupidity of the Manx Museum in merely repeating the misinterpretations of the mormons - Douglas Borough Cemetery is within Douglas but is on the boundary with Onchan in which parochial parish it is.
All plots in the Cemetery have a plot number but not all have headstones - if they have a headstone the wording will be found in the Memorial Inscriptions transcribed by IoMFam Hist Soc + purchasable from them
Title: Re: Check for Plot at Douglas Borough Cemetery
Post by: KGarrad on Thursday 16 May 19 20:27 BST (UK)
Plot number is B 175.

I'll check for a headstone later. It's been a very busy week! ::)

EDIT:
No gravestone, according to the MI transcripts.
Title: Re: Check for Plot at Douglas Borough Cemetery
Post by: nickiejo on Friday 17 May 19 13:24 BST (UK)
Many thanks for checking. The plot number is really good to have.
Title: Re: Check for Plot at Douglas Borough Cemetery
Post by: JayneD33 on Wednesday 06 July 22 20:29 BST (UK)
I have just come across this post having spent hours on our visit to the Isle of Man combing the graveyard at St Peter's Onchan for the grave of my husband's maternal grandparents!  Frederick John McCarthy died at Noble Hospital in Douglas in 1944 but the Ancestry transcript said he was buried in Onchan.  Thank you both for having asked the question and given the answer that the cemetery concerned would be at Douglas!
Unfortunately, we only have a day left on the island, so are unlikely to be able to track down the grave in the time available.
But at least I now know where to look!!
Title: Re: Check for Plot at Douglas Borough Cemetery
Post by: nickiejo on Wednesday 06 July 22 20:34 BST (UK)
Good luck with your search Jayne. I have yet to make it to the Isle of Man, but it's on my list!
Title: Re: Check for Plot at Douglas Borough Cemetery
Post by: KGarrad on Wednesday 06 July 22 20:36 BST (UK)
I have just come across this post having spent hours on our visit to the Isle of Man combing the graveyard at St Peter's Onchan for the grave of my husband's maternal grandparents!  Frederick John McCarthy died at Noble Hospital in Douglas in 1944 but the Ancestry transcript said he was buried in Onchan.  Thank you both for having asked the question and given the answer that the cemetery concerned would be at Douglas!
Unfortunately, we only have a day left on the island, so are unlikely to be able to track down the grave in the time available.
But at least I now know where to look!!

The Library at the Manx Museum has details of all cemeteries, MI's and plots.
It's what I used to answer nickiejo's query.
Title: Re: Check for Plot at Douglas Borough Cemetery
Post by: JayneD33 on Wednesday 06 July 22 20:44 BST (UK)
Thank you!  We'll head there tomorrow.

I've also passed the information (re confusion of Onchan/Douglas cemetery) on to the parish clerk at St Peter's who may get other queries of this sort.
Title: Re: Check for Plot at Douglas Borough Cemetery
Post by: JayneD33 on Wednesday 06 July 22 21:21 BST (UK)
Good luck with your search Jayne. I have yet to make it to the Isle of Man, but it's on my list!

Thank you!  It's my first time here, and it's a lovely place with friendly people.

So far we've managed to find two houses which the husband's grandparents lived in. And have been invited to look round one of those tomorrow evening!

To visit the grave and pay our respects before we leave would be so good. So thanks again for breaking doown the brick wall and helping us towards achieving that!
Title: Re: Check for Plot at Douglas Borough Cemetery
Post by: KGarrad on Wednesday 06 July 22 21:31 BST (UK)
Thank you!  We'll head there tomorrow.

I've also passed the information (re confusion of Onchan/Douglas cemetery) on to the parish clerk at St Peter's who may get other queries of this sort.

Possibly Ancestry got confused?!
Before Douglas was a parish in it's own right, it was split between Onchan parish and Braddan parish.
Although 1944 was rather late in the day :D
Title: Re: Check for Plot at Douglas Borough Cemetery
Post by: KGarrad on Thursday 07 July 22 20:28 BST (UK)
Follow up:
I met with JayneD33 and her husband today,and sorted things out!
Douglas Borough Cemetery; MI found; Grave reference found.

A satisfied couple! :D
Title: Re: Check for Plot at Douglas Borough Cemetery
Post by: JayneD33 on Sunday 10 July 22 14:39 BST (UK)
Thank you so much for your help and guidance, Kevin. It was lovely to meet you and share genealogy and life stories!
After we left you we went to the Borough Cemetery, paid our respects and planted a rose tree on the grave. So good tp be able to do that before we left to go back home to Somerset.

Jayne
Title: Re: Check for Plot at Douglas Borough Cemetery
Post by: Blue70 on Friday 13 January 23 15:16 GMT (UK)
Thanks for this thread it explains why we couldn't find a grave at Onchan Cemetery last year, they're at Douglas. Onchan is a nice cemetery though so not a wasted trip.

C