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Family History Beginners Board / Southern Necropolis, Lanarkshire
« on: Tuesday 01 October 24 18:42 BST (UK)  »
A Youth Opportunities Project was held in the 1980s to photograph and record the headstones in Glasgow's Southern Necropolis.  The photographs were taken and the recording work started, presumably on a computer at a college or other institution - no p.c.s in those days and no cameras on mobile phones.  The student doing the inputting developed carpal tunnel syndrome and the project was put on hold.  No one knows where the data/photos from the project ended up, but the Family History Society would dearly like to find them.

Please does anyone remember this project and knows where the results are?

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Lanarkshire / Re: Burial records for Elvanfoot, South Lanarkshire
« on: Monday 12 September 22 18:05 BST (UK)  »
Are the slabs still visible?

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Lanarkshire / Re: Burial records for Elvanfoot, South Lanarkshire
« on: Friday 09 September 22 18:31 BST (UK)  »
It sounds as if the local people (even in the middle of a typhus outbreak) did the decent thing.  A site was bought for the burials, the ground consecrated and the graves marked.  It is sad but perhaps understandable that their names were not recorded.

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Lanarkshire / Burial records for Elvanfoot, South Lanarkshire
« on: Wednesday 07 September 22 17:03 BST (UK)  »
There was an outbreak of typhus around July 1847 which brought a heavy death toll, including among the local population and Irish navvies in Elvanfoot.  I cannot find a record of any of the burials - parish records for Elvanfoot only seem to start in 1906.  Did parish records for the area ever exist and, if so, where can they be found?

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Lanarkshire / East Park Home, Maryhill
« on: Friday 03 June 22 11:16 BST (UK)  »
In the Glasgow Necropolis there are lairs and a headstone for the children who died in East Park Home during the 19th century.  After the lairs were filled, no more burials from the Home appear to have taken place in the Glasgow Necropolis.

Does anyone know if the Home then acquired plots in another cemetery?

Chudleigh

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Lanarkshire / Re: Lost Graveyards and cemeteries
« on: Monday 12 October 20 11:06 BST (UK)  »
Hi Lodger
Could I just clarify - the First Relief Congregational Church (United Presbyterian) became the Muir Street Relief Church and then became Auchingramont Church, before the congregation moved away, presumably in the first half of the 20th century?  You've probably seen it, but there was a fascinating photo of the burial ground in The Hamilton Advertiser, including Keiths Buildings in the background.
Chudleigh

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Lanarkshire / Re: Lost Graveyards and cemeteries
« on: Monday 05 October 20 17:12 BST (UK)  »
Lodger

Thank you for your help, and Hamilton Central Library has kindly sent me a copy of the lair plan of the burial ground at Lower Auchingramont Road.  I noticed on an earlier post that you have a photo of the former UPCS premises and I wondered if I could have your permission to copy it for my article for the FHS web page?  I will of course acknowledge you as a source.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Lost Graveyards and cemeteries
« on: Wednesday 30 September 20 18:28 BST (UK)  »
Thank you - I picked up the Airdrie ones from your excellent post in 2018, though I wondered if any others were covered in the 'Raddle' article "The Churchyards of Airdrie Burgh"?  The Central Library in Hamilton is presently looking out information for me on the Lower Auchingramont Road site.

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Lanarkshire / Lost Graveyards and cemeteries
« on: Wednesday 30 September 20 11:23 BST (UK)  »
Many old graveyards (attached to ecclesiastical buildings) and cemeteries have disappeared from Lanarkshire.  Often, burial records, lair plans and M.I. records remain with the local authorities and can be consulted by family historians.  I have written up brief histories on Glasgow City's lost burial grounds for the GWSFHS's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/gwsfhs/) and am now trying to identify more in the Lanarkshire area.  Can anyone help with other local burial grounds that have now disappeared?

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