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Title: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: Silverhawk on Saturday 14 December 19 06:17 GMT (UK)
I have an 1859 death certificate which says the burial place was "Churchyard of Hawick". Would this have been St Mary's at St Mary's Place, or the Old Parish Church on Buccleuch Street?
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: Brentor boy on Saturday 14 December 19 06:59 GMT (UK)
Have you checked Free Reg to see it has details  of the burial?
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: Forfarian on Saturday 14 December 19 10:54 GMT (UK)
I don't know Hawick at all well, but like every other Scottish town it rejoices in an over-supply of church buildings, not all still in ecclesiastical use.
http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/places/region/Borders/parish/Hawick

From the old map only St Mary's is surrounded by a kirkyard.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18&lat=55.4208&lon=-2.7932&layers=6&right=BingHyb

Photographs show St Mary's built on a motte surrounded by open space.
https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=107135504

This shows, I think, the other non-RC church shown on the map on Buccleuch Street.
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5117183 . No evidence of a kirkyard. I believe that this is the so-called Old Parish Kirk, built 1844 and now in use as a hall.

The map also shows a Roman Catholic church on Buccleuch Street
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2849396 . Also built 1844.

There also Teviot Church, just off Buccleuch Street
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5956952 but it wan't built until half a century later.

Nor did this one on the other side of the river
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6289805 .

So unless corrected by someone who knows better, it looks as if it must have been St Mary's.
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: Silverhawk on Saturday 14 December 19 16:29 GMT (UK)
Have you checked Free Reg to see it has details  of the burial?
Yes. Unfortunately FreeReg doesn't have any Hawick transcripts yet.

I don't know Hawick at all well, but like every other Scottish town it rejoices in an over-supply of church buildings, not all still in ecclesiastical use.
http://www.scottishchurches.org.uk/sites/places/region/Borders/parish/Hawick

From the old map only St Mary's is surrounded by a kirkyard.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18&lat=55.4208&lon=-2.7932&layers=6&right=BingHyb

Photographs show St Mary's built on a motte surrounded by open space.
https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=107135504

This shows, I think, the other non-RC church shown on the map on Buccleuch Street.
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5117183 . No evidence of a kirkyard. I believe that this is the so-called Old Parish Kirk, built 1844 and now in use as a hall.

The map also shows a Roman Catholic church on Buccleuch Street
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2849396 . Also built 1844.

There also Teviot Church, just off Buccleuch Street
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5956952 but it wan't built until half a century later.

Nor did this one on the other side of the river
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6289805 .

So unless corrected by someone who knows better, it looks as if it must have been St Mary's.
Thanks again, Forfarian :) You're a font of knowledge.
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: vivdunstan on Saturday 14 December 19 19:11 GMT (UK)
I’m from Hawick and have Hawick ancestry.

At this time I expect it would be the Wellogate cemetery.

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2182436/wellogate-cemetery

See also my GENUKI Hawick page at https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/ROX/Hawick#Cemeteries
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: vivdunstan on Saturday 14 December 19 19:17 GMT (UK)
A bit more info about Wellogate cemetery, including a much more accurate map than on the FindAGrave website:

https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/directory_record/12009/hawick_wellogate_cemetery
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: Forfarian on Saturday 14 December 19 19:35 GMT (UK)
I’m from Hawick and have Hawick ancestry.
At this time I expect it would be the Wellogate cemetery.
Even though the certificate says 'Churchyard'?
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: vivdunstan on Saturday 14 December 19 19:45 GMT (UK)
I’m from Hawick and have Hawick ancestry.
At this time I expect it would be the Wellogate cemetery.
Even though the certificate says 'Churchyard'?

Yes I think so. St Mary’s is tiny, and would likely be full by then.
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: vivdunstan on Saturday 14 December 19 19:57 GMT (UK)
Just a quick follow up. St Mary’s closed for burials in 1864, apparently, so was nearly full in 1859. So it was still a possibility, but I’d honestly expect Wellogate to be more likely.

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2485691/saint-mary's-kirk
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: Silverhawk on Sunday 15 December 19 06:22 GMT (UK)
Just a quick follow up. St Mary’s closed for burials in 1864, apparently, so was nearly full in 1859. So it was still a possibility, but I’d honestly expect Wellogate to be more likely.
Is there any way you could check? The name of the person in question is William Bowie. He died 9th January 1859.
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: Forfarian on Sunday 15 December 19 10:35 GMT (UK)
Out of curiosity I looked at the page on SP with his death. William Bowie was buried in 'Churchyard of Hawick'. The next two people on the same page of the register were buried in 'New Burial Ground of Hawick'. See attached extract. (I'd post the whole page but that would fall foul of the copyright rules.)
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: vivdunstan on Sunday 15 December 19 11:21 GMT (UK)
Just a quick follow up. St Mary’s closed for burials in 1864, apparently, so was nearly full in 1859. So it was still a possibility, but I’d honestly expect Wellogate to be more likely.
Is there any way you could check? The name of the person in question is William Bowie. He died 9th January 1859.

Yes, assuming this is your man, here is his grave entry in FindAGrave, using the St Mary's link I gave earlier in the thread.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205449656/william-bowie

Click on the link to see the details. Does that look like your man? If so definitely St Mary's is it is, and @Forfarian's images suggest so too.
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: DonM on Sunday 15 December 19 16:33 GMT (UK)
I never trust Find a Grave entries without a stone especially those made today.

I also suggest you download www.astro.ubc.ca it is a book about Hawick it is huge over 3,000 pages and has a few pages on the Bowie's. 

Don
 
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: vivdunstan on Sunday 15 December 19 21:52 GMT (UK)
I never trust Find a Grave entries without a stone especially those made today.

Good point re the date, well spotted.

The St Mary’s inscriptions have been transcribed, and published in the Hawick Archaeological Society Transactions in the years running up to 1940. Sadly I can’t get over to St Andrews at the moment to check the copies of the transactions in the university library there. But they are recorded.
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: Silverhawk on Monday 16 December 19 07:21 GMT (UK)
Yes, assuming this is your man, here is his grave entry in FindAGrave, using the St Mary's link I gave earlier in the thread.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205449656/william-bowie

Click on the link to see the details. Does that look like your man? If so definitely St Mary's is it is, and @Forfarian's images suggest so too.
;D The above was me. I added it acting on Forfarian's response. Can change the place if it's confirmed it was elsewhere. I usually add Findagrave entries if I can find a relative's interment mentioned in the press (BMD announcements, articles, etc) or a church's burial register. I took the the column on the Scotland's People death certificate to be as good as, being a government source.

I also suggest you download www.astro.ubc.ca it is a book about Hawick it is huge over 3,000 pages and has a few pages on the Bowie's. 
Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of British Columbia.... am I missing something? I can't see anything relating to Hawick on that page.
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: vivdunstan on Monday 16 December 19 13:11 GMT (UK)
Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of British Columbia.... am I missing something? I can't see anything relating to Hawick on that page.

Use this link:

http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/scott/book.pdf

It's a superb resource for people with Hawick connections. Compiled by Hawick man Douglas Scott, Prof of Astronomy.

It won't help answer your specific question, but it may be of interest nevertheless.
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: alan14578 on Tuesday 17 December 19 21:49 GMT (UK)
Silverhawk
It may help in Wellogate
"(1)   WilLiam   was   hapt.  1st   Ml:ty, 1786,  in   presence  of   Henry  Nichilson and   John:"
".Bowie and  d.  13th  May,  1861, eged   75.    Marr . . (1st)   28th   Deer.,  181""4, by  Dr   Di{)kson. to·"
"Jame,   dang. .of   Peter  Fisher, merchant, G1a.sgow, d.  11th   April, 1844,  >aged  50,  issue-(a)"
"·william,  (b1 Peter Fisher,  (c)  Jessie, d.  2n€! Novr.,  1841, aged   8,   (d)  Daniel,  commerciaL"
"traveller,  built  Hopehill, intending  to  be  II!Illlrried, _but  d.   l.lnmarr.   lQth  Jeny., 1864,  >aged."
"29,   (e)  Thomas,  two  mru:r.  dil.ugs.-(f)   Mrs  Dyer,  (g)  Mrs  McGinly, &nd  4 d.  in  infancy."

No Bowie in St Marys or Wilton with a headstone only the one above.
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: Silverhawk on Wednesday 18 December 19 04:32 GMT (UK)
Use this link:

http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/scott/book.pdf

It's a superb resource for people with Hawick connections. Compiled by Hawick man Douglas Scott, Prof of Astronomy.

It won't help answer your specific question, but it may be of interest nevertheless.
Thanks, Viv :) A lot of info there. It mentions at the end of William's writeup that he's buried in St Mary's. Refers to my great(x4)-grandmother too, Margaret who married William Kennedy. And the Boa spelling (for a good while I was looking for Boas instead of Bowies). If I'd had this way back when, I could've saved myself some frustration. All good stuff though :)

Silverhawk
It may help in Wellogate
"(1)   WilLiam   was   hapt.  1st   Ml:ty, 1786,  in   presence  of   Henry  Nichilson and   John:"
".Bowie and  d.  13th  May,  1861, eged   75.    Marr . . (1st)   28th   Deer.,  181""4, by  Dr   Di{)kson. to·"
"Jame,   dang. .of   Peter  Fisher, merchant, G1a.sgow, d.  11th   April, 1844,  >aged  50,  issue-(a)"
"·william,  (b1 Peter Fisher,  (c)  Jessie, d.  2n€! Novr.,  1841, aged   8,   (d)  Daniel,  commerciaL"
"traveller,  built  Hopehill, intending  to  be  II!Illlrried, _but  d.   l.lnmarr.   lQth  Jeny., 1864,  >aged."
"29,   (e)  Thomas,  two  mru:r.  dil.ugs.-(f)   Mrs  Dyer,  (g)  Mrs  McGinly, &nd  4 d.  in  infancy."

No Bowie in St Marys or Wilton with a headstone only the one above.
I... have no idea what I'm looking at here :-[
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: Forfarian on Wednesday 18 December 19 08:44 GMT (UK)
I... have no idea what I'm looking at here :-[
It looks like an extract from something that has been read by optical character recognition and just quoted unedited.
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: vivdunstan on Wednesday 18 December 19 15:24 GMT (UK)
Thanks, Viv :) A lot of info there. It mentions at the end of William's writeup that he's buried in St Mary's. Refers to my great(x4)-grandmother too, Margaret who married William Kennedy. And the Boa spelling (for a good while I was looking for Boas instead of Bowies). If I'd had this way back when, I could've saved myself some frustration. All good stuff though :)

Excellent! I hadn’t looked at the entry, and didn’t think it would list a burial place. Excellent result! And glad there is extra info in there for you.
Title: Re: Hawick burial - which churchyard?
Post by: ajjbc on Wednesday 18 December 19 17:01 GMT (UK)
Siverhawk...I just went through my 3 copies of M.I. for...St.Mary's, Wellogate and Wilton and sorry to say there was not one Bowie listed.
 Now that is not to say he was not buried in any of them...just that there is no stone recorded.
  Hope to hear back from you re my private message about 5 of your research names.
      Cheers for now