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anne
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My mother says that as far as she knows all her ancestors are buried in Berwick Civic Cemetary,i wonderd if they didnt die there but maybe died within 10 miles of Berwick,would their family have had to pay to have their body taken to that cemetary and would there be another charge to have them buried there.I would have thought that they would have to be buried in the nearest cemetary to where they died.Can anyone tell me what it might of been.
Also does anyone know if the burial indexes for Berwick Civic Cemetary are on line or in book form,and where is Trinity Church Cemetary in relation to the Civic Cemetary,or is it the same place just a different name.Anne.
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Ayrshire,Kennedy,Faulds,Cuthbert,Crawford,Young,Edgar,Bell
Dundee,Nicol,Cant,Kennedy,Jamison,
Dumfrieshire,Wilson,Maxwell,Lammie,Cowan,Young,
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emjay
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Hello Anne
The Holy Trinity Church is the parish church of Berwick and is more or less in the centre of the town. The old graveyard is there.
When the graveyard was getting full, a new cemetery, the Civic Cemetery was opened at North Road, Berwick, which is on the road out of the town to the north, but within walking distance of the town centre.
The burial indexes for the Civic Cemetery are held at the Berwick Record Office in Wallace Green. There are also burial records for Holy Trinity Church and Memorial Inscriptions for the old graveyard at the Record Office.
People whose family originated in Berwick, or who had themselves been born there could have been buried at the Civic Cemetery if they had bought a plot, so it wouldn't matter where they had died, but presumably they would have had to pay the costs of transport etc. themselves.
Myra
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Thankyou Myra for your reply.I think there is a chance that they could be buried in either cemetary,i know they have no headstones,i have been to Berwick Civic Cemetary with my mother and she took me to the burial plots of her ancestors,its just a big open piece of land where maybe 30 burials are.Mam said that she doesnt know the real reason why there are no headstones just that she was told that they couldnt afford a headstone,i know they werent rich people but i wouldnt have thought they would have been that hard up,other people seemed to be able to afford a headstone.Anyway thankyou again for your reply.Anne.
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