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Lanarkshire / Re: Camara Momo: burial ground
« on: Thursday 05 January 17 20:46 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks. I have the copy of the death certificate, but it does not show where he is buried. It is not with my gran as she is in Old Dalnottar in Clydebank.

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Lanarkshire / Camara Momo: burial ground
« on: Thursday 05 January 17 18:35 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Rootchat folks, 

Thanks to all who have contributed this. I have learned  much information i did not know about my grand father from member tagg  However, I wish to take it a bit further and find out where he was buried in 1928. He died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary (Belvidere Hospital part I hear, now demolished). He lived with My gran Agnes  McKay Cunningham(not married), in Cowcaddens Glasgow.Muse Lane was a name I heard my late mum mention. Agnes was from Calton, Gallowgate, Glasgow. He had two daughters, Margaret and Mary, a child in infancy. It is possible he is buried in Sighthill Cemetery or in the eastend.

 Details: Camara Momo born 12 March 1895 Sierra Leone, died 11 Sept 1928 Royal infirmary Glasgow. Thanks

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Lanarkshire / Re: Camara Momo
« on: Thursday 05 January 17 18:18 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, I will do. Read the attachment about 1919 Glasgow Race Riot. It is interesting.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Camara Momo
« on: Wednesday 04 January 17 20:33 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks always known him as a Ship Stoker, filling engines with coal. Not sure why his name has variations: possibly poor interpretation? Really grateful for the info as I had planned to find out  which ships he said with,is there any record of him, do others(probably deceased) have recollection of him. I hope to get to Glasgow sometime to look at burial records, more likely Sighthill Cemetery or others in theeast end. Not sure where they lived. My mother mentioned Muse Lane Cowcaddens(a horrid place). Margaret and my mum were brought up it Scotstoun. My mum moved to Richmond Street(now Strathclyde  Uni). Mary McDermid Kane is my mum's married name. It is by chance i only found out you were searching by looking up records of Smyllum House(terrible place), where my mum vaguely remembers being as a child, although for probably less than a year due to a family illness.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Camara Momo
« on: Wednesday 04 January 17 15:23 GMT (UK)  »
Yes Margaret(Peggy) is older by a few years. Mary  Momo was born 11 November 1926. Margaret's children (Neary)obviously are my cousins. I have seen the photo of Camara, which is on his passport. I think his nationality on it was "Negro", although he was classed as British.My mother lost the passport which was given to her  a few years before she died. what is interesting is that Camara was a ship stoker. Quite a few West Africans did the same  job.  Some stayed on in Scotland, but no without experiencing racism. After WW1 many of these  african workers where almost demobbed from serving on  ships for GB during the war. There was a race riot in Glasgow 1919 involving the african shipworkers. Not sure if he took part. But shots were fired, and my mum  said she thought her dad had a gun. This may be true as a lot of the ship workers had guns, especially just after the war. My aim is to find Camara's grave and put a memorial on it if not already got one.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Camara Momo
« on: Tuesday 03 January 17 22:28 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, Camara Momo had another child a few years later called Mary(deceased several years ago). Mary was my mother. My mother also told me she had another  sister who died of whooping cough while a still a baby. Camara ( my grandfather and granny never married as far as I know,although she had been previously married with children whom she had little in life. My mother has little recognition of her dad as he died when she was  an infant.

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