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Title: How do I find out where an ancestor is buried?
Post by: mkcoop on Thursday 15 April 21 22:40 BST (UK)
How do I find out where an ancestors are buried?

My great grandparents both passed in Lanarkshire, him in 1895 and her in 1925. I have located both of their death records but I don't know how to find out where they are buried. I've searched the Find A Grave site and searched Scotland's People records.

He was Catholic (I haven't confirmed if she was, but I'm assuming). I searched Catholic records but didn't find anything.

How do I find out?
Title: Re: How do I find out where an ancestor is buried?
Post by: Erato on Thursday 15 April 21 23:06 BST (UK)
Maybe a newspaper obituary.
Title: Re: How do I find out where an ancestor is buried?
Post by: Rena on Thursday 15 April 21 23:56 BST (UK)
I usually refer to the GENUKI website for initial basic information  It used to be quite a simple task to find relevant information, with church and cemetery names plus dates opened. Currently there is a list of churches in Glasgow, which includes about a score of Roman Catholic ones. 

Here's the link to the page.  Scroll down to the bottom for the paragraph listing the Catholic churches.   

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/LKS/Glasgow/GlasgowChurchHistories

If you give some information on the names/dates of your ancestors you might be lucky and find that a rootschatter has some helpful specific information

Best wishes,Rena
Title: Re: How do I find out where an ancestor is buried?
Post by: searchingforanswers on Thursday 03 June 21 06:34 BST (UK)
Quote from: mkcoop on Thursday 15 April 21 22:40 BST (UK)
How do I find out where an ancestors are buried?

My great grandparents both passed in Lanarkshire, him in 1895 and her in 1925. I have located both of their death records but I don't know how to find out where they are buried. I've searched the Find A Grave site and searched Scotland's People records.

He was Catholic (I haven't confirmed if she was, but I'm assuming). I searched Catholic records but didn't find anything.

How do I find out?

Try https://www.deceasedonline.com/ :)
Title: Re: How do I find out where an ancestor is buried?
Post by: oldfashionedgirl on Friday 04 June 21 08:45 BST (UK)
I have found several by looking up the death intimation in the British Newspaper Archive, which gave me the cemetery, then I contacted the Edinburgh council and payed for a search (up to four graves) and they emailed me the lair numbers and a map.

I had the lair number for my OHs aunt who is buried in Rosemarie, I called Highland council and they told me for free who else was in the grave.