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Surrey Lookup Requests / Re: 'Lost' graves in or around Peaslake......
« on: Friday 16 August 13 12:54 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks for those links Dawn, which I'll pursue when we get there. Let's hope there's some headstone to be seen.
I should think I'll find more information from the electoral rolls which might show where they were living, and working, at the time.
As before, I'll post an update.

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Surrey Lookup Requests / Re: 'Lost' graves in or around Peaslake......
« on: Thursday 15 August 13 20:22 BST (UK)  »
'Deceased Online' for Surrey gave me this, maybe the final clue;
Entry # 26427... John Bain Gardner (aged) 62, Nelson Hospital, (buried on) 10th February 1943 (in) Common (Grave #) VC252   blank column    blank column  (in which Parish) 1 Balfour Rd Wimbledon.

Looks as if I might not find a headstone after all, if I'm reading the 'Common Ground' bit correctly, but at least I've found where he'll be.

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Surrey Lookup Requests / Re: 'Lost' graves in or around Peaslake......
« on: Thursday 15 August 13 19:43 BST (UK)  »
A very important piece of paper arrived today; Grandad John Bain Gardner's death certificate!

He died aged 62 years on February fifth at Nelson Hospital, Merton, and lived at 1 Balfour Road, Wimbledon. He is given as a Roof Watcher at an aircraft factory, and Ethel was present at his death. Seems his death was put down to Respiratory and Cardiac Failure.

A few 'phone call and an email I'm awaiting a reply to may be leading me to St Mary the Virgin at Merton, and with luck the Church Officers may have a register of burials.

I'll look around for where he may have been employed as I should think aircraft factories will be listed.
Maybe Electoral Rolls exists too so that might point to where he and Ethel were living during the lost years..........'more questions than answers' I know, but I'll have reached the end of my quest soon I hope.

I thank everyone who has helped me get this far............

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Fife / Re: HEADSTONES in Kirkcaldy Cemeteries(Part 2)
« on: Sunday 11 August 13 22:14 BST (UK)  »
Like I said "We're a' Jock Tamson's bairns"!

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Fife / Re: HEADSTONES in Kirkcaldy Cemeteries(Part 2)
« on: Saturday 10 August 13 18:01 BST (UK)  »
Well done Norrie!
You're far better at this than I am, having spent a few hours in Kirkcaldy trying to source Skinner info from the reference section (what a missed opportunity with the revamp eh? Just a 'money maker' cafe added and the REAL stuff hidden away; BOOKS).
Sheila has a slow 'net connection up there in Tweed so she may not have seen this yet. I think the system is steam powered!

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Fife / Pathhead Cemetery location please? SKINNER family d1871 sought....urgent!!
« on: Saturday 10 August 13 10:53 BST (UK)  »
Some Canadian visitors arrive on Monday 12th August for one day and we'll be taking them around variuos locations looking at a few sites where family were born and died.
With Norrie G's help we've traced a few but still have some outstanding and a line of thought is that maybe they have graves in Pathhead/Feurs cemetery, or in their home towns of Falkland, Auchtermuchty and Strathmiglo, despite seeing out their last days in Kirkcaldy.
Names are as follows, from Sheil Dodd-Fernley in Canada;

Margaret (Paul) Skinner died June 11, 1867 age 83 years at Pitmedden Wynd , Auchtermuchty.
Her Husband John Skinner Sr. died on Jan. 7th, 1871 age 71 years at St. Clairtown, Dysart.

Their son, John Skinner Jr. died Jan. 10th 1871 age 49 years at St. Clairtown, Dysart.
And his wife Janet (Logan) Skinner died Jan. 17th 1871 age 46 years at St. Clairtown, Dysart.

Joseph Logan, father of Janet Logan Skinner, died Jan. 23rd 1836 at age 39 years at Cash Feus, Strathmiglo.
(He married Elizabeth Wishart of Cash Feus at Strathmiglo parish on Jan. 27 1823. Daughter  of John Wishart and Janet Birrel of Cash Feus.)

Euphemia Stubbles mother is Margaret Brown died November 15th 1879 at Links St., Abbotshall. She was attended by her son-in-law Joseph Logan Skinner living at 3 Schemt? Wynd, Abbotshall.
Her mother Elizabeth (Turnball) Stubbles died November 23rd 1872 age 62 years at 130 Gas ?ank Wynd, Linktown, Abbotshall.
Her Husband John Stubbles died March 14th 1882 age 67 years at the Combination Poorhouse Kirkcaldy in Kinghorn.

Can anyone point me in the direction I need to go to find any likely grave sites, or fill in any of the blanks? I have two days to find as much as I can so I'm off, camera in hand, to have a look around!

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Fife / Re: HEADSTONES in Kirkcaldy Cemeteries(Part 2)
« on: Saturday 10 August 13 10:20 BST (UK)  »
There's no reply from Cupar where they offered to check the Strathmiglo and Auchtermuchty graveyards and I reckon they'll be busy doing this sort of thing right now with lots of visitors to Fife, so as its Saturday and they'll be finished for the week I think we'll need to go it alone to find anything by Monday morning!
I can check Falkland Cemetery on foot over the weekend if I get time; its only 15 minutes or so away.

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Surrey Lookup Requests / Re: 'Lost' graves in or around Peaslake......
« on: Friday 09 August 13 16:05 BST (UK)  »
Fabulous news about Ethel's grave location, tempered a little with no sign of JBG, and I'm indebted to you for finding this for me.
We should be in the area around Monday 19th and will have three days there so I think that'll be ample time to find what I need, and I'll certainly be anxious to meet up with the Church Warden.
The 1943 death certificate, ordered and en route soon, will hopefully show John's last address, and I can take it from there to seek his final resting place if he proves not to be at Peaslake with Ethel.

These other Gardner names are worthy of a bit of research, though I can't see that they are a 'second family' for JBG............though after all this time I'm not discounting it!!! Maybe a subscription to Ancestry will be required after all to find THEIR parents names.

You're well named Dawn; you brought light where there was but darkness!

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Fife / Re: HEADSTONES in Kirkcaldy Cemeteries(Part 2)
« on: Thursday 08 August 13 23:28 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks Norrie, I suspected that we'd find difficulties with the Skinner 'typhus' graves. Maybe Cupar Records Office will have records for their return to 'Muchty or Strath' cemetery, which I'll check in the morning, or it could be that there was a typhus dedicated graveyard in Kirkcaldy?

I'm working to find Goodsir's Row, (1861 Census) and I think it'll have been near the Hawkleymuir Linen Mill up Lawson Street/Park Road. That was a paper suppliers (McGrouthers?) when last used I think.
There looks to have been rows in this shot http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/spw042549 which is all built over now.

You've done a power of work Norrie, I'm due you a beer!

Relation in the Library would be Wendy, Christine's second cousin. We get around a bit!

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