MIs in DUNFERMLINE Lays Road Cemetery

[NorrieG]

Hi Moo your headstone photos from Dunfermline

Norrie

[moo]

Thank you Norrie


Regards
Moo

[rustyr]

Hi Norrie

I would very much appreciate if you could look up the following for me in your indexes:

James WATT died Dunfermline 1870 aged 67
wife Margaret HUNTER died Dunfermline 1870 aged 63

Robert WATT died Dunfermline 1877 aged 35
wife Elizabeth MUIR

Many thanks
Rebecca

[NorrieG]

James WATT died Dunfermline 1870 aged 67
wife Margaret HUNTER died Dunfermline 1870 aged 63

Nothing on Headstone index

Robert WATT died Dunfermline 1877 aged 35
wife Elizabeth MUIR

no headstone on index can't find any of the children on 1881 census
who did Elizabeth Muir remarry after Roberts death?
there is a James born Dunfermline & a David Watt in an orphan hospital Edinburgh.

Norrie

[rustyr]

Hi Norrie

Thanks for taking the time to look at this.

I think you've got the correct children there in Edinburgh.
Elizabeth MUIR died prior to Robert in 1877 and they did have sons James born 1870 & David born 1871.

Address on the death certificates of James WATT & Margaret WATT/HUNTER was Knabbie St, Dunfermline
Address on the death certificate of Robert WATT was South Inglis St, Dunfermline

Further information on the family can be found here:
http://mowatfamilyhistory.ca/2159.htm (not my site).

I think James & Margaret were in the 1861 census at Inverkeithing as Toll collectors (with children James & Catherine) and in the 1851 census at Burntisland.
In 1871 Robert & Elizabeth with sons James & David were at Reform St Dunfermline.

If not at Dunfermline I wonder if James & Margaret may have been buried at Inverkeithing? I would be interested if you have any ideas on where I could look next.

Many thanks
Rebecca

[NorrieG]

Hi Rebecca  I would suggest that you contact  , Cemeteries Department, Dunfermline Crematorium, Masterton Road, The current lair registers are administered by Fife CouncilDunfermline

you can contact Contact Margaret Lyle online
explain you are trying to locate the cemetery in which your ancestors  are buried
explain that your ancestors lived and died in Dunfermline
include the information

Compartment M Lair No. 66
Date of Certificate 1870, Feb 7.
Lair Holder’s Name- Robert Watt, Knabbie St, Dunfermline
Interments:
4 Feb 1870 James Watt age 67
3 Jun 1870 Margaret Watt age 63
29 Mar 1875 Alex Watt age 3 months
14 Apr 1877 Elizabeth Watt age 37
5 May 1877 Robert Watt age 35

Norrie

[rustyr]

Hi Norrie

Brilliant, thanks for the lead and ruling out the Lays Road Cemetery for me.

Much appreciated.

Rebecca

[NorrieG]

Hi Rebecca  not ruling Lays road I was only saying that I have no record

Of a headstone for your Watts there,  If I was to take a chance on where they
Are buried it would be Lays road.
With all the deaths in such a short period could they really afford a stone.
Norrie

[rustyr]

Hi Norrie

Thanks for the clarification.
Agree that finding a headstone was always going to be optimistic.

I'd not realized the significance of that Lair information on that site - certainly pays to have someone who knows what they are doing to take a look!

Many thanks
Rebecca