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many thanks for the map, I went back up to Dalbeth on Christmas Eve and found the 3rd lair I was looking for complete with stone thats 3 for 3.  I have also contacted Sharon Scullion at the Archdiocese for a bit more information.  Thanks again for all the help from everybody

searched the catholic burial records on Scotlands people site against the name Furey and all the entries came up as being Dalbeth St Peter's and Old Dalbeth, compared them to death records I already had and singled out the oldest two generations (Gr Gr Grandparents and Gr Grandparents) printed off the entries and headed up to the cemetery yesterday to try source the lairs, I prepared myself for the inevitability that there would be no markers or stones there.  I figured on a combination of no money in those times to erect a monument and that due to the passage of time and the overgrown nature of the cemetery in the past.  So anyway spoke to one of the groundskeepers and he helpfully showed me roughly where the graves would have been, (Section 9 Centre), using the remaining headstones we worked our way to where the lairs were and lo and behold there was a stone commemorating my Gr Gr Grandparents and two of their children,  brilliant I thought better than I expected, so we counted from there to the other lair where there was another stone (facing the opposite direction though) but luck was obviously on my side as this was indeed the stone I was looking for, two for two.  Spurred on I got some more details from the Scotlands people site and now have another lair to track down but this time instead of a number for the section it has letters looks like it could be J A or J H.  Anyone got any ideas, also do you know if the stones can be retouched by the monumental masons at the gate for a fee?