Mary Henderson (Stevenson) Garden

[Chalfont]

Can anyone please help me find her burial location? She and her husband James Garden lived in Cornhill Village, Banffshire. A family photograph of her grave contains the folowing inscription:
Erected by
JAMES GARDEN
CORNHILL
IN LOVING MEMORY OF HIS WIFE
MARY H. STEVENSON
WHO DIED 2nd JUNE 1926
AGED 33 YEARS
The land is flat and open so it is not Ordiquhill Parish Church graveyard. On visiting Cornhill in 2011, I was told there was no burial ground at the church in the village. Was this correct?
Thank you. (from Ontario, Canada)

[MonicaL]

Hi Chalfont

Could you perhaps post the photo here? It might help people to recognise the burial ground (hopefully!).

Monica 

[Chalfont]

Thanks Monica. I would have attached the photo earlier but couldn't find it! (I've been away from this line for a long time.) Give me a couple of days and I should be able to dig it out.

Thanks for your interest.

[Chalfont]

As promised. The inscription is transcribed in my first post. Perhaps the picture will provide someone with a clue about the location.

Mary died of tuberculosis in Chalmers Hospital, Aberdeen,  so there's a possibility that it is a city graveyard. (But it looks deserted of other graves.) Other possibilities: Cornhill (If there's a graveyard there - I don't think it's Ordiquhill): Portsoy (where she was born), or Banff (where they were married in 1924).

Their wedding certificate lists them both as residents of Ordiquhill parish - Mary in the village of Cornhill, James at "Leathermills."

Thanks for you interest.

[MonicaL]

Have you seen Mary's actual death certificate? Apart from stating where she died (Chalmers Hospital, Aberdeen), did it also include her usual residence? Just trying to get down any more info that may help others with local knowledge.

Monica 

[Chalfont]

Yes, I have a copy of her death certificate. It states her usual residence as Village of Cornhill. A puzzler.

[nw_whiskers]

Dear Chalfont,  I have done a lot of work on the Stevenson of Deskford, Fordyce and Marnoch, Banffshire so I have been in some of the Churchyards around there so I can help you rule out some of them from the photograph.  It is NOT Banff as it is on a moderate brae near the School in Banff.  That is a busy Cemetary and some of my wife's relatives are buried there.  It is NOT at Fordyce (either of them (two)!) more of her relatives there or at Deskford around the Old Church or at Ordiquhill as it is also around the Church as I remember it.  It is NOT Marnoch I (more relatives there!) and I do not think that it looks like Marnoch II.  The Portsoy one is not far from the sea so the picture does not appear to promote that one.  It is a lovely Headstone and there must be a better way of finding it.  Perhaps a search of the Aberdeen Press & Journal or the Banff Paper around 2 June 1926 would yield a gem or two.   The space running out so best wishes for now,  nw_whiskers   

[Forguette]

Chalmers Hospital is in Banff, not Aberdeen,

[nw_whiskers]

Dear Chalfont,  The Banffshire Journal around 2nd June 1926 looks a good bet for where she is buried.  If I were in past the Aberdeen Family History Society, 164 King Street, Aberdeen I would look it up for you but that could be Feb or March time frame.  The tapes are on the LHS just past the reception desk so that would be easy.
I see Nethermills on the map just south of Cornhill but no Leathermills.
The Cemetry at Fordyce is a logical choice from Cornhill but your picture kind of rules it out or is very deceptive.
If the Hospital was in Banff as somebody else has posted then the Cemetry could be somewhere outside Banff.  It does NOT look like the Cemetry at the School in Banff as it slopes away to the South from where I have seen it and is a busy place.  It is NOT Alvah (more relatives in there!).
I have tried the MIs at  http://anesfhs.org.uk/ but no Mary H Stevenson to match your criteria.

Sorry if it sounds "negative" as we rule out the less possible but the "correct result" will come if you persist with it.  It was in June 1926 so it can't be that difficult!

Keep at it,  nw_whiskers.