Temple Village Midlothian

[Templar75]

Hi Dell,

           Lichen is the only way they can determine age and it concerns the whole of the UK, I would say headstones are different because they have dates on them, the secret is, if they are not there wipe it off, the old sandstone Stones you use your hand and no tools the problem is the hand gets sore.

Cheers.

Archie.

[ev]

This is the original link found in 2011.
Guidance Notes: Lichens, Algae and Mosses.

http://www.scottishgraveyards.org.uk/downloads/5lichen.pdf



ev

[Templar75]

Thanks ev that should help to explain why we can't touch them.

Cheers.

Archie.

[SquireofHistory]

Dear Templar75,

I was wondering if you have any records of anyone by the last names of 'Reid' or 'Jenkinson' buried at Temple.

I was up at Temple and Borthwick Graveyards yesterday, but struggled to read a lot of the headstones. My ancestors lived at Stobbsmills in Gorebridge in the mid-1800s, so I guess they would probably be buried at Temple, as it is quite close?

Thanks,

Joe

[MonicaL]

Joe, welcome to RootsChat 

Archie has this amazing site here too https://sites.google.com/site/templevillageburials/  Can't see your surnames on the list that Archie has included on surnames https://sites.google.com/site/templevillageburials/list-of-names-and-pages

However, as mentioned there:

  Not all of the names of those buried at Temple are recorded, this is because
the burial book was not kept up to date properly and in fact it is a total mess.
All the names below are on the respective stones.

Monica

[Templar75]

Hi SquireofHistory,

                   thank you Monica for addressing this, when I first went to Temple some stones were already in decay and unreadable and to be honest the site is not that well kept by the Council as you will have seen.

Stobbs had its own Church so by the 1800's there were probably burials started within the grounds, I have never been up there to check but might do it one day.

Cheers.

Archie.

[SquireofHistory]

Dear Monica and Archie,

Thank you very much for your reply, and the welcome 

I didn't realise there was a website with the names from Temple - thanks for the link.

Archie, I didn't realise Stobs had it's own burial Ground, I shall have a wee look up there when I have time.

Thanks for the help,

Joe

[Templar75]

Hi Joe,

       I am sorry about saying that Stobbs had a burial site but I was thinking of something else so please discount that.

Can you give me any more details on your ancestors please for instance full names, Where they were born and married they may have lived at Stobbs but did they die there is the big question, in those days people moved about quite a bit.

There really are loads of burial sites that they could have been buried in but go to this site first which I hope the link works works.

www.midlothian.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/2796/...

Cheers.

Archie.

[SquireofHistory]

Hi Archie,

Thank you very much for the link - it is fantastic!

My ancestors was Stewart Reid, I'm pretty sure he was born in Borthwick between 1808-1811. He married Catherine Jenkinson in Dalkeith in 1830 (although they were both from Borthwick). Catherine was born also between 1808-1811 to William Jinkinson and Elizabeth White.
Their son, Thomas, was born in 1831 in Dalkeith. They were living at Stobbsmills by the 1841 census. Stewart was a Shoemaker. He was buried in April 1851, in the Borthwick OPR burial it simply says 'Stewart Reid, Gorebridge'. I don't know anything of his parents.

Catherine continued to live at Stobbsmills until her death in 1877.

Thanks,

Joe