St Joseph's RC Cemetery, Airdrie. The year 1883.
There were a total of 201 burials this year. This was an increase of 12 on the previous year, giving an average of 16 burials a month. Of them 104 were children under 15. Two of those children were still born. The oldest was Daniel McAleese from Longriggend who died aged 77. All the burials were in sections B & D, which is the old railway line. Only 15 of the burials had a plot number recorded against their name.
Over the year there were internments from people who lived in outlying towns and cities such as Motherwell, Blantyre, Glasgow and Kilsyth. The person(s) recording the burials are starting to increase the recording of plot numbers against the names. During 1882 there were only 8 records that had plot numbers marked against them. This year there were 15.
The most repeat surnames were Docharty, (4) Quinn (4) and McGee (5)
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