Photos of Old Dalbeth Cemetery

[Moulton6063]

HI,
I am veynewto this and very unsure that I am doing allth right things so willing to take constructive critisism - any help would b great.

Gerry Farrel listed a number of names from gravestones some time ago 2008/09. Among them was Carlin. Would like to have information on the three quoted. My Grandmother Died the year before I was born. I am named for her but live in New Zealand. She is buried in Dalbeth Cemetery and was joined by my grandfather. The Also had  an infant daughter buried about 1923/24. I know my Grandmother was buried in re-burial ground and died December 31st /January 1st  1947/48. My randfather died March 1969. I wold be very grateful for any information.
carpe diem
Grace

[gerryfarrell]

Have sent reply via private message

Gerry

[Hodgkins Hoskins]

Hello to all chatters on the subject of St Peters, Dalbeth cemetery. I ony happened on this site looking for info on St Peters Dalbeth cemetery as I have now found where my Glasgow ancestors were almost all buried, thanks to Scotlands People website which now lists Catholic burials. What a shame I didn;t get the info a couple of months earlier as I was right there in Glasgow during June on holidays from Australia.

Does anyone know the rough dates of when the "old" cemetery was in use, my ancestors & relatives(Reillys, Milloys, McGowans) wer buried there from the 1860s through to the 1940s ? For relatives buried there from the 1920s on, the St Peters records show Sections & Divisions within the cemetery. Do you know where Division W, Sections 17 & 18 might be ?

So it seems St Peters Dalbeth was the main Catholic burial place for East Glasgow,

Any help appreciated

Sean

[gerryfarrell]

Hi Sean,

The old part of the cemetery was certainly in use from around 1860. The last interment that I have found on a headstone is 1920 and that was a priest the main lairs seem to have stopped around the 1900 - 1905. I'm dont know actual dates of 1st and last years for the older part or the newer St Peter's part although I do know from gravestones I have passed that the newer part was in use at the ed of the 1800's.
The cemetery office has a map of the sections of the newer cemetery, but alas no plan exixts for the older part.

Gerry

[Montana272]

Hey Garry did you ever find out if we were related?  LOL  I am from the Eliott's in Ireland and Scotland.  John and James Eliott

[gerryfarrell]

Hi Montana,

I havent came across any James or John Elliotts in my tree so far. Its all been Benjamins and Matthews.

Gerry

[Montana272]

Thanks.  I don't even know who their brothers were.  I have not been able to find any.  If you ever come acrossed any let me know. 

[William Hook]

Does anyone know the rough dates of when the "old" cemetery was in use, my ancestors & relatives(Reillys, Milloys, McGowans) wer buried there from the 1860s through to the 1940s ? For relatives buried there from the 1920s on, the St Peters records show Sections & Divisions within the cemetery. Do you know where Division W, Sections 17 & 18 might be ?

I do not know where Division W is. However Sector 18 is where my great grandparents (died 1936 & 1960) and other more recently dead relatives are. To find it you enter the main new part of the cemetery from London Road. Shortly after entering the road splits ahead and right. You need to turn right over a bridge. Follow the road and do not leave it. Several yards after the bridge the road turns 90 degrees left around a corner.

The road runs parallel to a fence / shrubbery on your left. The fence / shrubbery are separated from the road by a row of single graves on your left. On your right the cemetery is much wider.  Keep going for what seems like you are heading to the far end of the cemetery.

Sector 18 is on the right of the road you have been following. You will find it at the point that the cemetery seems to open up on both sides of the road. In other words there are several rows of graves on both sides of the road ~ rather than the single row of graves that you have had on your left since you crossed the bridge quite some distance behind you.

Sector 18 is quite a distance from London Road and is probably closer to the far boundary wall. Travelling at funeral speeds in a motor vehicle you are probably several minutes beyond the bridge. However, it is not right up against that far boundary as you are still a fair distance from that as well.

I can only hope that Sector 17 is next to Sector 18. However, I do not know for definite.

[MonicaL]

From another of Gerry's posts here www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,495487.0.html, there are some useful marked up maps (replies 3 and 4).

Monica