Lochgelly burial records 1925. Help needed

[foxfire]

Can anyone tell me how to access the cemetery records for Lochgelly. I am trying to find Simpsons and Wyse families. Thanks

[NorrieG]

Hi Foxfire   I have 900 headstone photographs for Lochgelly Cemetery
who are you looking for need more than just Simpson & Wyse

Norrie G

[foxfire]

Many thanks for your reply. We have been to the cemetery but couldn't find what we are looking for. It is for a stillborn baby born in 1925. We have been to the records office in Edinburgh but it wasn't necessary to register stillborns till after that. I was just following a hunch that he may have been buried with one of her family (Simpson or Wyse)

[NorrieG]

Hi Foxfire   these are the Simpson & Wyse inscriptions from Lochgelly Cemetery

Lg      301   Andrew   Simpson   Jeannie   Barnes
301   Jeannie BARNS wife of Andrew SIMPSON
      died 22.5.1942 age 54
      Andrew SIMPSON died 14.9.1957 age 69


Lg      1069   James G L    Simpson   Jean   Gair
1069   A dear Mum Jean SIMPSON or GAIR died 17.9.1958 age 45
      1st wife of James C.L.SIMPSON  who died 16.11.2000 age 77   


Lg      155   William Butler Simpson   Isabella Johnston
155      William B SIMPSON died 27.5.1960 age 62
      wife Isabella JOHNSTONE died 20.6.1978 age 82
      son Robert SIMPSON died 6.3.1989 age 59


Lg      41   Henry   Beattie         Helen   Simpson
41   Henry BEATTIE died 25.11.1960
      wife Helen SIMPSON died 3.1.1984 age 80   



Lg      817   Robert   Wyse   Margaret Forrester
817   Robert WYSE  husband of Margaret FORRESTER
      died 19.2.1960 age 54
      grandson Henry WYSE died 3.12.1981 age 18

Norrie G

[foxfire]

Many thanks for your help, the information is so good . I will enter it into my family history.

Foxfire

[dawnone]

Hi Norrie!
I am trying to find the family of my grandmother, Bridget Murray Gorman or "Betty" , Born Dec. 30, 1898 in Lochgelly, Scotland (or Cowdenbeath) . She had a younger sister, Elizabeth, or "Peg"
Her mother's name was Reilly, I believe, and she died age 42 of dropsy in Lochgelly, Scotland (or Cowdenbeath) .  Is there a Reilly in your collection of photographs which might be a match?. Can you tell me where i might find information to track down the maternal side to their origins in County Cork? Also, I heard that the father subsequently remarried and had more children with the second wife.
Thanks!
Linda Hammond

[NorrieG]

Hi Dawnone
its not as easy to check the index with that information

what I need is your Grandfather & Grandmothers Names

eg Thomas  Reilly   Mary - Ann Millar

Norrie G

[diddymiller]

found a lot of the info today - look on other posting:

Lochgelly - cowdenbeath.

Diddy

[dawnone]

Hi!
Diddy just found that information (which I didn't have!) so-
my great grandmother was (1901 census:)
Bridget Gorman (nee Reilly)  Head. age 22 b. lochgelly (1879)
and
Great-Grandfather was Edward Gorman, married 31/12/1897 Auchterderran


but from 1881 census:
Michael Reilly h. 46 b. ireland (1835)
Bridget Reilly  w.36 b. ireland (1845)
Mary          "     d.  5      Auchterderran (1876)
Bridget       "         3      Auchterderran  (1878)
Catherine    "        7mth   Kinghorn       (1880)

There's a difference in her birth year from one census to the next. If she lived to 42, as my grandmother told me, she'd have died around 1920-1921
Her husband, Edward Gorman, remarried feb 18th 1921 lochgelly, listed as widower. I wonder why Bridget was listed as the head of the household in the 1881 census if she was married to Edward and subsequently had another daughter...

My great-great grandmother, Bridget Reilly  w.36 b. ireland (1845) is whose maiden name (possibly Murray??) I'm trying to discover. as she must be the one who came from Cork - the story is that she was the eldest of 3 children, who were the only survivors in their family of the potato famine, and she arrived as a girl in Lochgelly with a younger sister and brother in tow. She was born the year the famine began- i wonder if this makes sense.

I have some photos of my grandmother, Bridget Gorman, and her family on a site I created for my father after he died, if anyone's interested.
http://www.dawnone.com/adman.html

Thanks for helping!!
Linda Dawn Hammond