350 graves to be exhumed

[OmahaBoy]

Could you please take a peak for John Pollock (died 1869) and his first wife, Marion (Greenshields) Pollock (died about 1848-1851)? Thanks very much.

[damnonii]

Thanks very much Lodger.  I think I'll just need to accept my Airdrie lot were too poor for gravestones.

That's a horrible thought that people were parking on top of a graveyard without even knowing.  No matter how people feel about the bodies being reinterred at least now people know they are there and presumably a plaque or stone will be set up to commemorate them.  It won't right past wrongs but it's something.

[Robert Murray]

Lodger can I suggest there could well have be an article in the Advertiser regarding the lairs concreted over? We only need what year it was to make the search easier.

[Ogleway]

I recently discovered that my ancestor was buried in Broomknoll Churchyard in 1855.

She was Ellen Orr aged 3 years and 10months.

Do I take it she is now under a carpark, or would have her remains been re-interred somewhere else?
Does anyone have any more info on her and any other Orr family members who might have been buried in Broomhill Churchyard?

Many thanks
Ogleway

[Lodger]

OmahaBoy & Ogleway, I am not at home this week, will check for your ancestors when I return on Thursday evening.
robert, if only we knew when the car park was made!  I searched the burgh council minutes but could find no mention of it, although I did find mention of the Chapel St exhumations. 
There was a law passed by Airdrie town council, cant remember offhand just when, but I think it was in the 1880s, restricting internments in the 3 churchyards of the town to lair owners and children of lair owners.  No new lairs could be purchased from that date, and so by the 1920s burials in the 3 churchyards were very few and far between.  The parish church was not within the town limits so burials continued there and a new municipal cemetery was opened next to it, not too sure when, probably in the late 19th century.  I have the exact date at home.  There is a Catholic cemetery, St Joseph's in the New Monkland/Airdrie area too.

Lodger

[Ogleway]

Thank you for your help, Lodger.
Much appreciated.

Ogleway

[barkie1]

I know for a fact my great grandmother x 3 is in that graveyard as it's on her death certificate from 1856.

Never been able to find a lair record and i assume she was buried in common ground.

[Lodger]

OmahaBoy, no luck with your querry, sorry.
Ogleway, the only thing I could find was in the list of lair owners for Wellwynd, a Mrs Joseph Orr, Airdrie, purchased a lair 5th Feb 1843.  Also a James Orr 129 Graham St Airdrie who purchased a lair 13th July 1850.
Not much to go on but these purchases could have been made around the time that a family member died.

Lodger.

[Ogleway]

Lodger,
Thank you so much for your effort.
Ogleway