Shankill Graveyard - records "all burned"???

[Northdowngal]

No problem!

Northdowngal

[Kiltaglassan]

Indeed, a very good pdf listing.

Just found my OH's gt gt grandmother's death record.

KG

[chrimfe]

Hi all. If it’s not too much to ask I wonder if any can help me find information about a relative buried at Shankill. James McFetridge, father to Lily McFetridge, lived in Broadbent Street and passed away in 1892. Would anyone be able to source headstone inscriptions- if they were recorded anywhere? From public records he would have been 59 years of age. Many thanks.

[Jon_ni]

He is not listed in the pdf I printed 2018 from the now expired domain on page 4. Many were interred without headstones.
You could try Familysearch see https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/02/more-on-familysearchs-new-digital-image.html

[libbybee85]

I was wondering if anyone could please look up Rev James Somerville Wilson who died 11 Nov 1951. I know he is buried at Shakill in Belfast but was wondering if he had a headstone and if his wife Hilda (who died July 8th 1974) is buried with him. Unsure as I'm not sure if the cemetery was closed for burials by the 1970's. Thank you.

[Jon_ni]

I was wondering if anyone could please look up Rev James Somerville Wilson who died 11 Nov 1951. I know he is buried at Shakill in Belfast...

Think you have the WRONG Shankill Graveyard, was Shankill Graveyard, Lurgan, Co. Armagh.

According to https://www.belfastentries.com/places/places-to-see/shankill-graveyard/ the last interment in Shankill, Belfast was in 1934. But https://cambraistreet.co.uk/ has various notes at the end of the pdf "In August 1938 The Shankill Graveyard was closed save for 106 owners of plots. Before the creation of the rest garden in the 1960's a few were still not filled. The owners either relinquished their rights or were given sites in the City or Roselawn"
Cambrai street lists quite a few burials in the 1940's when text search for '194' but only 10 in the 1950's (no James Wilson) and none later.
Belfast City Council site just says Shankill Graveyard was handed over to the public (them) in 1958, after it had fallen into disrepair following the decision to no longer accept new burials.
https://belfastmedia.com/shankill-cemetery-the-desecration-of-1500-years-of-belfast-s-oldest-graveyard

Suggest you look for their death notices on the Belfast newspapers online on British Newspaper Archive or Findmypast.
There is no GRONI death index entry for a Hilda Wilson. There is for a Sarah Wilson 8 July 1974, born 17 Aug 1892. And a Belfast index entry for James Wilson 11 Nov 1951, aged 62.

10 July 1974 Belfast News-Letter [do not have a sub currently to open & view]
WILSON - July 8, 1974, at Hospital, Hilda, wife of the late Rev. J. S. Wilson of Duncairn [Presbyterian], and mother of Basil and Gregory. Strictly private. Funeral from Melville & Co., 43 Bedford Street, to-morrow (Thursday) after service at 2 pm....
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL/0005119/19740710&page=0002&article=032

There are a half dozen OCR newspaper index entries for Rev. James 1951 and they indicate funeral to Shankill Burying-ground, LURGAN. https://www.rootschat.com/links/01tox/
Also 3 entries in the Portadown Times Nov 1951 indicating family were originally from that area - son of late James of Edenderry, Portadown and grandson of Samuel, handkerchief maker.

That graveyard is also old and more or less closed now, superseeded by Lurgan Cemetery, Newline Road. Browse the images on https://historicgraves.com/graveyard/shankill/am-snkl or contact Isobel Hylands on Friends of Shankill Graveyard (Lurgan) https://www.facebook.com/groups/friendsofshankillgraveyard

[libbybee85]

Thanks so much Jon-ni. You are right. I thought it was Belfast Shankill but it is lurgan! No wonder I was getting myself confused. Thank you so much for clearing that up for me.