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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Dumfriesshire => Topic started by: Jeffrey on Saturday 07 December 24 12:45 GMT (UK)
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Again asking for help!
Some time ago I downloaded a Burial record from the "Canonbie Kirk Cemetery Burial Registers" for a burial of a John Armstrong in 1846. I have the whole page and although I put "Canonbie Kirk Cemetery Burial Registers" as the source I can not remember which web site I got it from. I think I could browse through the pages but simply can not remember where on the internet I found it ???
Any ideas please.
Judy
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Was it Scotlands People? www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
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Was it Scotlands People? www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Unlikely, as SP doesn't have burial registers for Canonbie for the 1840s.
When looking for burial records, always start with the relevant local authority.
In this case http://dumgal.gov.uk/article/24609/Heritage-Service
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Thank you for your help.
Have not found exactly the website I wanted but have found other information on other websites.
I've looked again at Scotlandspeople and it wasn't there, Nor on the Dumfries & Galloway one.
grateful for your efforts.
Judy
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Nor on the Dumfries & Galloway one.
You need to do more than just look at the Dumfries and Galloway web site as most of the information they have is not going to be available online.
Contact them and ask them if they have the records you are looking for, and if not, ask where they are held (assuming they have survived, of course).
And don't trust anything you find online unless it's an image of an original document.
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https://dgfhs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Publications-List-October-2024-READ.pdf
You can buy the book from Dumfries and Galloway family history society
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Hi Judy, 1825-1855 burials for Canonbie are on Ancestry but aren't labelled correctly: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/9041/images/44771_218997-0004
These haven't been on ScotlandsPeople or anywhere else to my knowledge. An absolute gem for those of us with roots in Canonbie.
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Thank you all for your help and I have various places to look for various things and dates now which are very useful.
BUT the one that I was looking for was the one posted by Lanercost and is on Ancestry - how could I not find them again on there :( Thank you.
Thank you all
Judy
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Just an update.
(https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/9041/images/44771_218997-0004)
Although Book02 was of the Burials in Canonbie from 1825-1855 the page my ancestor was on in 1846 was missing - (Canonbie Kirk Cemetery Burial Registers 1846 John Armstrong New Woodhead October 13th 56 Years). Yet I have it downloaded already so that is a mystery. I am wondering if there is another site containing these Burial Registers :-\
Apparently it says there were 67 burials in the year 1846 but only 19 are listed so think the complete book is not on the Ancestry site. Unfortunately the pages aren't numbered.
The moral of my tale is, in future, to make sure not only the source is recorded but the location of the source too!
Judy
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One thing you can be sure of is that even if you found the information on Ancestry, it didn't originate there. Ancestry has just copied or indexed something produced by someone else.
It could be one of the many booklets produced by the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society https://dgfhs.org.uk/
They have among other things two volumes of Monumental Inscriptions in Canonbie. See https://dgfhs.org.uk/?s=canonbie&post_type=product&dgwt_wcas=1 - could the information you obtained before have come from one of these?
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Just an update.
(https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/9041/images/44771_218997-0004)
Although Book02 was of the Burials in Canonbie from 1825-1855 the page my ancestor was on in 1846 was missing - (Canonbie Kirk Cemetery Burial Registers 1846 John Armstrong New Woodhead October 13th 56 Years). Yet I have it downloaded already so that is a mystery. I am wondering if there is another site containing these Burial Registers :-\
Apparently it says there were 67 burials in the year 1846 but only 19 are listed so think the complete book is not on the Ancestry site. Unfortunately the pages aren't numbered.
The moral of my tale is, in future, to make sure not only the source is recorded but the location of the source too!
Judy
Hi Judy, I see what you mean, there's a few pages missing now. I'd saved the whole book to my computer awhile back and have the page as well so it would be where you found the image originally.
One thing you can be sure of is that even if you found the information on Ancestry, it didn't originate there. Ancestry has just copied or indexed something produced by someone else.
It could be one of the many booklets produced by the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society https://dgfhs.org.uk/
They have among other things two volumes of Monumental Inscriptions in Canonbie. See https://dgfhs.org.uk/?s=canonbie&post_type=product&dgwt_wcas=1 - could the information you obtained before have come from one of these?
She has an image of the burial? Obviously not an MI and DGFHS doesn't have these decades of Canonbie burials in their booklets or publications list.
If another user gives the correct answer, it's ok... ::)
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Well, if it is an image of the lair book it must have originated in the records held by Dumfries and Galloway Council.
Sometimes the owner of a document withdraws their permission for commercial web sites like Ancestry to feature it and the document then disappears from the web site. Maybe that is what happened to the item you are looking for.
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Thank you for the lively discussion on this subject. :)
I have now downloaded other information that this has lead to. Which is useful.
I believe, as Lanercost says, I downloaded the original page from Ancestry, but for some reason there are now one or two pages missing from that document - maybe for the reason Forfarian has put forward or for another reason I don't know.
But it is a bit of a nuisance if you are looking for Canonbie Burials in 1846.
Thank you
Judy