Riddrie Park Cemetery

[jonwarrn]

Details of A9026 at Riddrie Park from the lair book on Family Search
First one buried was Alex J Crawford, age 9, 13 July 1912

Last entry on page
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS1G-JQXD-C?i=408&cat=1318291

[C. Macdonald]

Hi Leanne, thanks for replying to my post, I have included the email from the csg archives when I made the enquiry to find my Gt Grandfather Daniels grave it was listed as A9026, I will try and find more detail from them, I don't have the burial certificate which would have helped to pin down the grave. Many thanks and take care.
Colin.

[lcar]

Thanks for that extra info.
It looks like the lair number is A9026. I just thought it seemed like a certificate number rather than an actual lair number.

I’m not entirely sure when I will be going to Riddrie. Hopefully in the next week or so.

I will comment back once I have visited.

Thank you

Leanne

[C. Macdonald]

Cheers Leanne I really appreciate your kindness to look for and checkout this lair if you get a chance and have the time. I've sent an email with the cemetary plan if it is of any help.
Very many thanks.
Colin.

[jonwarrn]

I don't think I'll bother to look up any more lairs!

[Skoosh]

Passed by Riddrie Cemetery yesterday, the western section adjoining Provanmill Road, from the Jewish burial ground to Cumbernauld Road, is fenced-off & abandoned. Presumably still regarded as dangerous & remedial works too expensive.

Bests,
Skoosh.

[lcar]

Passed by Riddrie Cemetery yesterday, the western section adjoining Provanmill Road, from the Jewish burial ground to Cumbernauld Road, is fenced-off & abandoned. Presumably still regarded as dangerous & remedial works too expensive.

Bests,
Skoosh.

I went to Riddrie Cemetery last week it looks like the grave C MacDonald is looking for is in the section that has been abandoned. This section is so overgrown. It is impossible to see any of the gravestones even when standing at the edge of the fence that has been put up to keep people out.

L

[C. Macdonald]

Thanks for that detail Skoosh, Leanne kindly sent me some pictures of that area by email when she visited and I thanked her by email and thanks to everyone for their input.
Cheers
Colin.

[Skoosh]

It's just a stock-fence Colin & pretty ramshackle, some big monuments therein. It's been erected after the tragedy & just left but wouldn't deter a determined researcher with a machete! 

Skoosh.

This was a very old pit probably dating from the late 18th century and not on a map. The land-slip site is only a few hundred yards from the Monkland Canal which was built to break the monopoly of coal-owners like the Gray's of Carntyne by shipping coal into Glasgow from the Monklands. There will be many such pits as yet undiscovered, one opened up in Hogganfield Park, adjacent to the cemetery, when a path was being laid out around the same time.