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Glasgow Burial Records?
« on: Saturday 28 June 25 23:30 BST (UK) »
Hi I’m wondering who to contact to retrieve old burial records for Glasgow? Specifically the Southern Necropolis in Gorbals. Thanks!

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Re: Glasgow Burial Records?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 28 June 25 23:36 BST (UK) »
How old?
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Re: Glasgow Burial Records?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 28 June 25 23:44 BST (UK) »
Quote from: CaroleW on Saturday 28 June 25 23:36 BST (UK)
How old?

1850’s - 1900 I have quite a few. I know one was buried there for sure it’s listed on their death cert, the others died in Gorbals so I’m assuming they were buried there as well. Would like to look up records online if possible

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Re: Glasgow Burial Records?
« Reply #3 on: Yesterday at 05:53 »
Might not be relevant, but was looking for some pauper burials in the 1840s. Glasgow archives replies that they had some early records but they were not indexed. So you'd need to actually go in and look through them. A bit trick from Australia, so haven't done that yet.

Don't know exactly what 'early' meant, but certainly little online for the 1840s.

Might be worth contacting them directly with a general question??

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Re: Glasgow Burial Records?
« Reply #4 on: Yesterday at 06:11 »
Try this page on GenUKI:
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/LKS/cemeteries-gla

"Cemetery Registers
The Special Collections Room of the Mitchell Library holds the records of some twenty Glasgow cemeteries covering the period from the 18th century to the 1990s."
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)

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Re: Glasgow Burial Records?
« Reply #5 on: Yesterday at 06:14 »
Glasgow City Council Bereavement Services:

https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/3742/Genealogy-Enquiries
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)

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Re: Glasgow Burial Records?
« Reply #6 on: Yesterday at 08:16 »
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: Glasgow Burial Records?
« Reply #7 on: Yesterday at 09:58 »
Southern Necropolis on FamilySearch (free, need to be logged in)
https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/1322281

You can browse the films via the camera icon, or search them via the full text icon.

Earliest register from 1840-1843
How well does the full text facility read the entries? Judge for yourself here
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSH8-G9C3-T?view=fullText&lang=en&groupId=M9MP-6HD

It may not be a straightforward search!

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Re: Glasgow Burial Records?
« Reply #8 on: Yesterday at 10:55 »
Quote from: jonwarrn on Yesterday at 09:58
Southern Necropolis on FamilySearch (free, need to be logged in)
https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/1322281

You can browse the films via the camera icon, or search them via the full text icon.

Earliest register from 1840-1843
How well does the full text facility read the entries? Judge for yourself here
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSH8-G9C3-T?view=fullText&lang=en&groupId=M9MP-6HD

It may not be a straightforward search!

Thank you! I was able to find the record for one of the others on the death certificate (there are 3 as you probably know). However I couldn’t find my ancestor. Upon closer inspection there is a distinction - this person has “Southern Necropolis”, mine specifically has “Gorbals Cemetery”. I thought these were the same thing. Do you know where to access the Gorbals Cemetery records specifically? For context this record is from April of 1859.
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