Anyone know anything about this website - Ros Davies?

[Leon47]

I found this site while researching and saw that it could potentially supply some detail of a burial on the Blaris Old Graveyard, Lisburn. I sent the author an email but it bounced. Perhaps the site is now too old and is unused/supported.

Does anyone know anything about it - how to get the information suggested?

Here is a link to the page I mean:

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~rosdavies/genealogy/PHOTOSwords/BlarisAll.htm

Thanks.

[aghadowey]

Looks like you are using an old link. Try this one:
https://rosdavies.com/PHOTOSwords/BlarisAll.htm

[Leon47]

Thank you. Your suggested site gives a better email for Ros.

[Jon_ni]

Leon
Ros Davis has retired from adding new research data to the site as of 2023, but was still prepared to enter into correspondence and add info sent. https://www.rosdavies.com/WORDS/WhatsNew.htm
She is Australian and has compiled much of the info from there which you should be able to find elsewhere, and from her personal visits and research
http://www.thedownrecorder.co.uk/pages/?title=Australian_visitor_with_a_passion_for_the_history_and_heritage_of_Co_Down
There is a source abbreviation list on her site https://rosdavies.com/WORDS/ReferenceBookslist.htm

She says her source for Blaris is 'RSJ Clarke's Co Down gravestones' the book https://ulsterhistoricalfoundation.com/library/gravestone-inscriptions-co-down-vol-5-baronies-of-upper-and-lower-castlereagh-ballygowan-blaris-comber-kilcarn-killinchy-killysuggan-kilmood-raffrey-ravara-2
UHF database https://ulsterhistoricalfoundation.com/genealogy-databases/northern-irish-gravestone-inscriptions

Blaris Old Graveyard, Lisburn burials/headstones are on https://discovereverafter.com/cemetery/377 the data from Lisburn Council.

[Leon47]

Thanks for this Jon_ni. Very useful.

I used the last link you provided and through a search found grave details and a gravestone image of the person I'm interested in. The writing on it isn't legible however and I can't download the image. I tried using the UHF database you mentioned but it can't find my person by Surname.

So I now need to see if FindaGrave covers that cemetery and if someone can help with transcribing it.

Edit: I've found it on FindaGrave and have requested an image of the gravestone and also asked if the writing on it can be transcribed.

[Jon_ni]

I can't download the image

you can save the image, despite the absence of an option or button with 'download' on it.
Having viewed the profile of the person from the search click on the headstone thumbnail photo and a new window opens. Right click on it & 'save image as'. Open & increase magnification/zoom if necessary with any photo viewer.
I'm using Firefox but will be a similar option in Chrome etc.

You could be waiting months/years for a photo on Findagrave and if someone uploads they do not necessarily transcribe themselves, others frequently do that from the uploaded photo - is a collective effort by those registered.
The reason it is likely not photographed or transcribed is because someone has pulled the data in from elsewhere - that is why all the Belfast City and Roselawn names are indexed on Findagrave, someone imported from Belfast Burials, is a number competition for some. The 'Creator' or 'Manager' of the entry is not necessarilly local, could be in USA or Australia and they need to approve any suggested edits.

Check Billiongraves too https://billiongraves.com/cemetery/Blaris-Old-Cemetery/269947 but you only get a low resolution image there unless pay.

[Leon47]

Thanks.

I had tried your suggestion but it simply saves the image item as just a number - 8302, with no file extension. So it wouldn't then open as an image.

However, after reading your reply I thought of just adding .jpg to the end of the number while saving and that has worked. I now have an image, fairly low 480 X 640 pixels but good enough.

It's very hard to read but seems to say "Here Lies The Remains of Gxxxx". No immediate mention of the woman's name I was expecting.

I'll check Billiongraves.