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Topic: Headstone search - Rosehill Cemetery, Montrose (Read 1280 times)
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lyndyloo6
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 343
My Great Grandmother, Susan Allan Welsh,Bervie
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Hi Jamjar,
your anccester died after mine. She died in 1856. My Gt GRanny is buried in there. Can you think of any other ancester who died after that date (the recording point) as they may be in there. All round the edge of the cemetry are what I call the monied headstones. These all relatate to the people who were well to do and had money, business. I am just wondering if they buried people in lines as they died as that would make the search easier. (Rosehill is very regimented and dare i say crowded....all the headstones are close together, if you know whaat I mean.....
I will be bac up soon and all the details are in my car, so if it has a headstone, I will find it.
You take care,
Lynda
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Welsh, Allan, Wemyss, Caird, McAllister,Gibb, Kincardineshire,
McDonald, Brechin, McConnachie, Pirie, Welsh, Angus
Gibb, Allan, Ross, Stewart,McRobb, Aberdeenshire,
Robertson, McKay, Blyth, McHale, Begg, McCann, McCabe, Horan, Edinburgh.
McGoohan, Conway, Kelly, Meechan, Edinburgh, Ireland
Goodfellow, Hodgson, Birtley,Chester le Street Durham.
Logie, Seater, Swan/Swanny, Kirkwall,
Sutherland, Dingwall
McLaughlan, Michael, Edinburgh Ireland
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Forfarian
RootsChat Veteran
Posts: 700
I HAVE edited my profile - several times!
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May just be the constant rain that causes it. 
The rain isn't constant in Angus. Eastern Scotland is in fact a relatively dry part of the country. Average annual rainfall at RAF Leuchars is 28 inches. This compares with 23 inches at Greenwich, 34 inches in sunny Blackpool, 42 inches at St Mawgan in Cornwall, 32 inches in Rome (Italy) and 51 inches in Orlando (Florida, USA).
It's the type of stone. Sandstone is relatively soft compared to granite, and therefore it was easier for the stonemason to carve in, and probably cheaper too.
Both Dumfries and Angus are in the Devonian sandstone, which is sand laid down about 400 million years ago and partly held together as stone by calcite. Calcite is the commonest form of limestone, and it dissolves in water, especially if the water is acid.
QED
The moral of the tale is, if you want your descendants to be able to find your headstone, get it done in granite. It won't last for ever, because even granite will eventually erode, but it will last a lot longer.
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robnewt
RootsChat Pioneer
Posts: 1
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hi this is my first chat on roots so hope you receive. Was searching Rosehill cemetery and noticed you were looking for a Robb headstone. I have a copy Angus monumental inscriptions which includes Montrose Rosehill. Checked it for David Robb but only Robb entries are for two wives. If I can check any other names or cemeteries in Angus let me know. I'm also in Australia.
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