Rosebank Cemetery Leith Headstone Photo Request - Marion Edmonston Seggie

[kathyc]

Hello there,

If anyone happens to be wandering through Rosebank Cemetery (Pilrig St) with time to look for a stone, I would appreciate the help. I spent some time there when I was across the pond in the spring and failed to find it, and fear it might be face down as a few in the section are, but am hoping maybe I just missed it or was looking in the wrong place. It's been niggling at me since I got home that I should have spent more time hunting, which is why I'm reaching out.

The stone is for Marion Edmonston Seggie (married name Lugton) 1811-1906, my 2x great grandmother. The Edinburgh and Leith (Rosebank) cemetery register lists her as being buried in Compartment I, number W 93 in a private grave.

Her sons had money, and all of them have stones on their graves (also in Edinburgh), so it seems very likely there is a stone on the plot.

Thanks very much to anyone who's able to help. I appreciate your time.

Kathy

[oldfashionedgirl]

I could have a look next time I’m over that way.
Do you have a map of which which area as often the lairs aren’t numbered.
You can get one from the council I think.

[kathyc]

Thank you! That's very kind of you.

I have a photo of the map that's posted at the Pilrig Street entrance, attached.

Kathy

[harrywrag]

Hi just a thought looking at map you posted could the grave you are looking for be in section IW grave 93 found left hand side of map and not compartment I  number W93

                                Harrywrag

[kathyc]

Thanks for that. Your post made me realize I have a typo in the location in my original post. It's N rather than I.

It appears in the cemetery register like this (see attached):

[oldfashionedgirl]

Great thanks for that, I will go and have a look when I have someone to come with me.
Will be in touch.

[Tickettyboo]

Great thanks for that, I will go and have a look when I have someone to come with me.
Will be in touch.

Don't know how well you know the cemetery but this may help to find Section N

Look on Google maps and the cemetery is marked, switch to satellite view and you can clearly see the
'circular' area. Below that the staggered line across N, W & O on the section map is, if you zoom, there is what  seems to be a wall which matches the shape of that line, so from there it should be easier to find Section N?

Boo

[kathyc]

Thanks again, oldfashionedgirl. Here's hoping you get lucky!

Harrywrag, thanks.

[oldfashionedgirl]

Hello Kathy,
I have been to Rosebank cemetery this morning with my son and we thoroughly scoured section N.
Sorry we had no luck finding the grave you are looking for.

In that section there were two headstones face down and one very small one whose inscription had completely worn away. You would be very unlucky if it was one of those amount the 70/80ish graves we looked at.

As with many cemetery’s the grave numbers aren’t marked so you can’t go straight to it.

My suggestion is that if you contact Edinburgh council they will preform a search and email you a map of exactly where it is.

I did this once before a few years ago and I think it was about £25 and they would look up a maximum of four graves. They give you the exact location and tell you all the burials in the lair.

So if you have some others to look up i.e. the sons you mentioned or her husband it would be worth it. Your dates suggest she was 95 when she died so she was likely to be pre deceased by her husband and possibly her sons?
I am happy to go and look again if you do decide to get a precise location.

Last thought that occurred to me was her address, 223 Easter Road is very likely to a tenement flat, not a ‘wealthy’ address, that would merit a costly headstone. It depends who organised her burial I suppose. Who was she living with in the 1901 census?

Sorry not to have found it for you, happy to try again, and for others, if you decide to buy the info.