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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Old Makaraka Cemetery, Gisborne
« on: Tuesday 20 August 13 11:34 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I too have ancestors buried in Makaraka cemetery.  A decade or so ago an earthquake damaged many headstones and I understand the Gisborne council bulldozed them into a hollow, so now the cemetery is mostly grass with a few headstones here and there.  I shall try to attach a picture!

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Lanarkshire / Re: Cathcart Cemetery Visitor
« on: Monday 13 August 12 13:56 BST (UK)  »
Thanks so much Anne, for your suggestions, which I will follow up.  Here is hoping! :)
liz

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Lanarkshire / Re: Cathcart Cemetery Visitor
« on: Monday 13 August 12 10:47 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
I am hoping you, or someone else, still live within walking distance of the Cathcart cemetery!  I am after info about my uncle, John Forrester Miller, who died in 1923 from wounds received during WWI, aged 26.  I understand he is buried in Cathcart cemetery but can't find his name on the lists of military graves in this cemetery.  He spent the years between end of the war and his death in Bellhouston war hospital.  Both myself and other antipodean relatives would appreciate any help you could give us. :)
  Liz

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: William Hill died NZ c.1868 from Glasgow and prior to that AberdeenshireCOMPLETE
« on: Thursday 12 May 11 13:58 BST (UK)  »
William Channon Hill, died in Christchurch, NZ on 17 October, 1869.  Check out "Paperspast" nz for the newspaper announcement.  One of his sons became a solicitor who married my great grand aunt.  she died relatively young and 9 years later Charles, William's son, disappeared on a business trip to Wellington and was never traced.  He had left his business affairs in a mess, owed many thousands of pounds and was adjudged bankrupt post his disappearance.  His son, Charles, was wounded in  the first world war and returned to NZ, became a solicitor and then migrated to Australia.  I have a photo of Charles the son.  There were two daughters, one of whom was a nurse.

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