East Chapel Graveyard location?

[bleckie]

Nice work Lodger
Yours Aye
Bruce

[sancti]

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[Lodger]

Thanks for checking my work Sancti, God forbid I should make a mistake!

[Forfarian]

At the risk of incurring the opprobrium of those better informed than I am, was the kirk at Clarkston ever referred to as the East Chapel?

Clarkston had been a parish quoad sacra since 1836, 20 years before Mary Mullarkey or Marley died at Clarkston. The kirk was built in 1837, and it has a kirkyard. It may have been the furthest east of any kirk or chapel in the parish of New Monkland.

Why, if there was a parish kirkyard in Clarkston, where Mary lived all her life and died, would she have been taken for burial into the town of Airdrie?

[Lodger]

2 good questions Forfarian. The only "East Chapel" I ever found in my research into the churchyards of New Monkland was the one on Chapel St, Airdrie. It was erected as a chapel of ease towards the end of the 18th century and a burial ground had been established right at the time of opening. So probably around 50 years before Mary died. Could she have had family interred there?
Clarkston parish was formed, as far as I know, in 1836. The church must have been built a few years after that but I don't know when the churchyard was established. Also, Clarkston would have been given its own parish after the Quad Sacra Act of 1834 and would never have been known as a chapel.

There must have been some connection with the East Chapel for Mary, I wonder where her parents are buried because if they predeceased her they are unlikely to be in Clarkston, unless they died after about 1840-ish?
The East Chapel became the East Parish Church after the Quad Sacra Act but, unsurprisingly, the couthy burgers of airdrie still referred to it, until its demolition, as the Auld Chapel.

I'll try to upload a scan of the Burgh Engineer's record of exhumations from 1934 - 35. If you are ever in the discovery Room at Airdrie Public Library ask to have a look at the original.

[joemcl]

Hi folks, not holding my breath but I have various ancestors according to Death Certs, that were buried in the following places Wellwynd graveyard, East Chapel graveyard, Chapel Street Church graveyard and Broomknoll graveyard the dates for these burials are 1858,1866,1868, 1870, 1874 Surnames - Feely,Kevany, Kilday and Shearin (all have had various spellings in different records).
I was wondering does that place them among the people who were exhumed and if so would anyone be able to do a look up to see if any of those surnames were recorded.

Much appreciated, Joe

[Skoosh]

The Abbey of Newbattle which owned the Monklands had a chapel & grange by the Kipps burn, from where they administered their property, a road ran from there in East Monkland to Newbattle & much later was the site of a loco depot!

Skoosh.

[Lodger]

Hi Joemcl,

Couldn't find any of those names in the MI's I have for the 3 churchyards, sorry.
East Chapel graveyard and Chapel Street Church graveyard refer to the same burial ground.

[joemcl]

Thanks for looking Lodger it's much appreciated