The Rev Doctor William Taylor b.1748 d. 1825 St Enoch Church Glasgow

[Sylvia Paterson]

Looking for burial information please I.e., cemetery

[Sylvia Paterson]

Can any one help

[relatedtoturnips]

Can any one help

Have you got a more specific location for it? There are old Scotland OS maps online, I can take a look at.

[Skoosh]

Sylvia, the nearest was probably the Ramshorn kirkyard but that was reserved for the city's merchants, across the Clyde is Gorbals parish so I think the Cathedral would be the best bet for Glasgow & the Barony parishes. There is a burial ground at St Andrew's on the Green which is just east of St Enoch's but that was for Episcopalians.

 Dunno if St Enoch's had a kirkyard of its own, the church has completely disappeared.

Skoosh.

[Sylvia Paterson]

This is a request I have had by email from NZ.  Trying to find a Rev Dr William Taylor, Minister at St Enoch Church, Glasgow who died at St Enochs d.1823/5

[johnwhite]

Ramshorn as was said before or Southern Necropolis.

[Sylvia Paterson]

Thank you - will see what I can find.

[Skoosh]

The Necropolis was opened in the 1830's by the merchants as the Ramshorn was full. The Southern Necropolis wasn't opened until the 1840's when municipal cemeteries became essential due to rising population in the city combined with epidemics like cholera & the scandal of private mass-graves in the east-end.  There was a parish kirkyard in the Gorbals though.  Two small burial grounds in Anderston & another in North Street, were all built over.

If this minister was off a merchant family in Glasgow, the Ramshorn is likely but have you considered that he might have been returned to his home parish if that wasn't Glasgow.

 If I was a betting man I would start at the Cathedral.

Skoosh.

 

[Sylvia Paterson]

Found a website with a list of burials in Ramshorn - he's not there.  Will try and find where he came from.  Many thanks.