Good Morning everyone from a very wet and damp Invercargill in New Zealand.
Some further information that may or may not assist. A few years ago I considered that Robert Bryce may have been buried with his wife Isabella and consequently made several inquiries, including a few telephone calls to the Glasgow City Council and the Mitchell Library.
From here I established a death record for Isabella Bryce at the Eastern Necropolis. This read :- "Isabella Bryce mother of John Bryce, 184 Finneston Street, died aged 64, cause heart disease, Lair purchase number 9356, Lair owner John Bryce, Lair number 1463".
The Mitchell Library were unable to supply any record of the death or burial of Robert Bryce. I did establish that John Bryce's wife Elizabeth Robertson died in 1940 and her burial is also recorded at the Eastern Necropolis, Lair location unknown.
Lair number 1463 that contains Isabella Bryce was purchased by son John Bryce in 1891.
John Bryce died on 08.09.1928 aged 73 years at the family home in 69 Hillview Street, Shettleston, Glasgow. I have this record in the Family Bible, also the Death Notice from the newspaper and I think somewhere a Death Cert.
I also visited the Eastern Necopolis 12 months ago and have several photographs of the Bryce Lair. There is no Headstone. The Lair is near the boundary of the Eastern Necropolis that borders Gallowgate Road.
I don't know any way specifically to search the Eastern Necropolis unlike many cemeteries in New Zealand that can be searched online (i.e. Invercargill's Eastern Cemetery) but wonder if it worth considering again that Robert Bryce is still interred there somewhere like the rest of the Bryces.
From other information I established that the Eastern Necropolis first opened in 1847.
Alex G
