St Joseph's Cemetery, Airdrie

[Maggie1895]

I'm sorry as well Tony.  It seems we have taken you in a wrong direction but perhaps because we made assumptions, as you posted such general information originally, without any detail.   I think sancti, Chris5856 and I were all under the impression that you were trying to track down her death so that you could find her burial.    Your initial mention of 'about 60 years ago' led us to think we needed to identify her name and date of death for you before you could find her burial, if you can follow that, and that's what we were doing.     We didn't appreciate that your mother already had the death certificate. 

Chris has done a huge amount of work on St Joseph's, Aidrie and when he's back on the board he may be able to look her details up for you - if you remember, when he was last on he asked for her name and date of death.

If she wasn't buried in St Joseph's then you probably need to approach the cemeteries around the area (using the links Monica posted) and ask them to search for you.   Good luck with it

[tony1129]

Ok she died October 1956. Her name was Catherine Boyle. I am trying to find out where her grave is. I am not sure if she was in St Josephs in Airdrie.

She was reg under 259 in the register book i'm not sure if that would help. Do you guys know if she will have a plot number ?

Many thanks for your help

[Chris5856]

Ok she died October 1956. Her name was Catherine Boyle. I am trying to find out where her grave is. I am not sure if she was in St Josephs in Airdrie.

She was reg under 259 in the register book i'm not sure if that would help. Do you guys know if she will have a plot number ?

Many thanks for your help

I dont have a headstone pic for her, but she will have a plot number for a burial in 1956. If she's buried in North lanarkshire the Heritage Centre in Motherwell should be able to help. Their details are as follows.....

North Lanarkshire Council Archives
North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre
High Road
Motherwell
ML1 3HU
01698 524712 / 01698 274597

[tony1129]

That is great I'll call them tomorrow. Do you think she would have been buried in North lanarkshire ? Would they have took her out of the area ?

Thanks so much for all your help.

[sancti]

I'm going to the Heritage Centre tomorrow so I'll check for you

[tony1129]

Thank you !

[tony1129]

Hi sancti

Hope to hear back from you today.

[sancti]

Confirmation of pm sent to inform of burial place

[Chris5856]

St Joseph's RC Cemetery, Airdrie. That's the first 100 pages of Lair book UN/2/26 transcribed. It covers the 24 year period from 30 January 1860 to 30 June 1884. In that time 3,475 souls were interred in the cemetery.The most popular surnames during that period are as follows......

 Quin(n) 52
 Gallagher 40
 McGuire/Maguire 38
 Murphy 38
 Smith/Smyth 37
 Burns 34
 Boyle 33
 Kelly 33
 Campbell 31
 O'Neill 31
 Donnelly 30

107 children were still born. A further 1,819 children did not make it to the age of 15. The oldest internment was that of the widow Campbell from Louden Street in Airdrie who died on 7 April 1872 aged 105.