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Offline Irene Boyle

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Re: Bairds Square, Holytown
« Reply #27 on: Saturday 11 June 22 09:30 BST (UK) »
Thank you,,  I'll check those out as I hadn't heard of them before. Thanks again.

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Re: Bairds Square, Holytown
« Reply #28 on: Saturday 11 June 22 09:45 BST (UK) »
Both churchyards are less than a mile from Bairds Square

He may not have a headstone

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Re: Bairds Square, Holytown
« Reply #29 on: Saturday 11 June 22 15:02 BST (UK) »
Thanks again. They are not registered with Find a grave in there. As you say possible no grave marker. Dalbeth cemetery has quite a few Fairleys according to Scotland's People. Its a needle in a...  I'm working my way through the cemeteries.  Thanks again. 👌

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Re: Bairds Square, Holytown
« Reply #30 on: Saturday 11 June 22 17:06 BST (UK) »
He is not registered in Dalbeth 1881

When and where did his wife die?

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Re: Bairds Square, Holytown
« Reply #31 on: Saturday 11 June 22 18:56 BST (UK) »
Have you tried looking at St Joseph's Catholic cemetery in Airdrie? It would have been closer to Holytown than Dalbeth, it opened about 1860 and the records are with North Lanarkshire Council.

Holytown cemetery didn't exist in 1881 but it is possible that your ancestor was interred in the churchyard there in 1881. As far as I know, no records exist for the churchyard before 1912.

Wrangholm has records from about 1876 but the chance of Roman Catholics being interred there are slim, it wasn't within the mainstream Church of Scotland and only church members and their families would have been allowed to use the burial ground. Holytown, (about a mile along the road from Wrangholm), was made a Quoad Sacra parish in the 1860s and anyone living within its boundaries, no matter of what religion, would have had the right to be interred in its burial ground.
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Re: Bairds Square, Holytown
« Reply #32 on: Sunday 07 January 24 01:28 GMT (UK) »
Can someone tell me where Baird's Square was? Like, if I looked at a map today where was it? Thanks.

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Re: Bairds Square, Holytown
« Reply #33 on: Sunday 07 January 24 12:43 GMT (UK) »
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: Bairds Square, Holytown
« Reply #34 on: Sunday 07 January 24 12:54 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Irene Boyle on Saturday 11 June 22 15:02 BST (UK)
They are not registered with Find a grave in there.
It's not a case of not being 'registered with' FindAGrave.

FindAGrave is a volunteer web site. Whether or not a gravestone appears there depends on (a) there being a gravestone at all and (b) someone going out, photographing the stone and submitting it.

BillionGraves https://billiongraves.com/ is similar.

The best place to start looking for grave records is always the local authority, because local authorities are responsible for managing most burial grounds in Scotland, and they will know who manages any private ones. In the case of Holytown the present local authority is North Lanarkshire https://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/births-marriages-and-deaths/deaths/cemeteries/cemeteries-service (Historically speaking, i.e. before 1975, it is in Lanarkshire.)
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: Bairds Square, Holytown
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