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Midlothian / Re: Burial Index's for Newbattle and Newton
« on: Monday 18 May 09 03:04 BST (UK) »
Although I've lived in NZ since 1956, I've been 'home' a number of times. About 1997 I was driving towards Newtongrange where my fathers family had lived. I was smoking and threw my butt out of the window. The butt landed in the backseat and I stopped in a hurry. After getting rid of the cigarette butt I noticed cemetery gates across the road. It was the Newbattle cemetery!
I went over and spoke to some workmen and told them that I thought my grandfather (Alexander Nicholson McKenzie Fraser SNEDDON) and grandmother (Elizabeth Gibb SNEDDON nee WALKER) were buried there. They looked up the register book and took me to their unmarked graves!!!!!!!!
Talk about coincidences.
I see from one of the previous posts there was and inquiry about William Sneddon and Janet Easton - they are both antecedents of mine.
Alastair
I went over and spoke to some workmen and told them that I thought my grandfather (Alexander Nicholson McKenzie Fraser SNEDDON) and grandmother (Elizabeth Gibb SNEDDON nee WALKER) were buried there. They looked up the register book and took me to their unmarked graves!!!!!!!!
Talk about coincidences.
I see from one of the previous posts there was and inquiry about William Sneddon and Janet Easton - they are both antecedents of mine.
Alastair