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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Midlothian => Topic started by: specialkg on Friday 30 May 25 18:58 BST (UK)
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This is a bit of a long shot but thought I would give it a go. I have the death extract from SP on an ancestor who died in 1952 at Queensberry House, Cannongate. I am trying to find where he is buried or perhaps cremated. Can anyone give me any suggestions as to how I might find this. Can one access the records for Queensberry House for 1952.
I have tried the usual route of Find a Grave and Billion Graves. I have also looked at newspaper deaths to see if I could find who the undertakers were.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Betty
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https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=887885.0
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Thank you forfarian for the link. My enquiry is for a death in 1952. I thought if the hospital register was available there might be an indication of what happened to my ancestor after death.
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Did he leave a will? Some wills show the deceased wishes re burial/cremation etc
Hospital records will be unlikely to show where & when buried unless he had no family.
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Thanks Carol for your reply. My query is very much a long shot. He did not have a Will. He did have a son and that side of the family have been traced but no record of burial place if any.
Thanks
Betty
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Thank you forfarian for the link. My enquiry is for a death in 1952. I thought if the hospital register was available there might be an indication of what happened to my ancestor after death.
As I have said in the item to which I supplied the link, always start with the local authority, in this case the City of Edinburgh Council.
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Thanks forfarian.
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This is a bit of a long shot but thought I would give it a go. I have the death extract from SP on an ancestor who died in 1952 at Queensberry House, Cannongate. I am trying to find where he is buried or perhaps cremated. Can anyone give me any suggestions as to how I might find this. Can one access the records for Queensberry House for 1952.
I have tried the usual route of Find a Grave and Billion Graves. I have also looked at newspaper deaths to see if I could find who the undertakers were.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Betty
It's not helping directly with your enquiry, but you should note that it's The Canongate, not Cannongate. That's a common mistake, but it has nothing to do with weapons and everything to do with titles of clerics, in this case, priests. It's the lower part of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, as it says in the description in the Gazetteer for Scotland: (https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst1000.html)
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Can one access the records for Queensberry House for 1952.
I very much doubt it. Usually there is a 100-year closure rule on hospital records.
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Sorry about the spelling. I took it from the death extract from SP but thanks for noting it.
I expect there will be the 100 year rule for information from a hospital but thought I would try.
If there is no burial the most helpful people would be the undertakers. I wonder if that is the way to go but that could be again a long shot. When someone dies in hospital is there always a funeral home involved. Might be an odd question but I never thought of it before.
Betty
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If there is no burial the most helpful people would be the undertakers. I wonder if that is the way to go but that could be again a long shot. When someone dies in hospital is there always a funeral home involved. Might be an odd question but I never thought of it before.
I wonder how many undertakers there were in Edinburgh in 1952, and how many of them have since gone out of business?
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I once visited an elderly lady in the late 1980s who was in Queensberry House temporarily, just before it was taken in to the construction of the new Scottish Parliament.
She was distressed at being there as when she was younger it was known as ‘The poor house’ (Workhouse in England) but I don’t know when it ceased being the poor house and became geriatric care.
It may be useful to find this out as if it was still the poor house in the 1950s then it may have been a paupers funeral ?
I may be putting 2 and 2 together and making 5 ??
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Thanks for your message which is a useful bit of information. I will pursue that line. Very much appreciated.
Betty