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Missing burial records
« on: Tuesday 18 June 13 10:26 BST (UK) »
If anyone comes across the burial records for St. Michael's in Linlithgow in some dusty second hand book shop, can you please hand them in. ;D

I had run out of ideas on finding exactly when my 3xG grandparents died. They are buried in St. Michaels and with them having a stone thought surely the burial would have been recorded. The stone itself is too worn to make any dates out. A call to the West Lothian Local History Library revealed the reason, the burial records for 1829 - 1855 are missing. So I suppose that's it. I will have to put died between 1841 - 1851 for one and died between 1851 and 1855 for the other.

The folks at WLLHL were very helpful on this and on other enquiries I've made so I'll add a link just in case there's anyone doesn't have it.

http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/sitecontent/libraries/localhistory
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Missing burial records
« Reply #1 on: Friday 05 July 13 23:06 BST (UK) »
Would help if you gave the family

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Re: Missing burial records
« Reply #2 on: Friday 12 July 13 20:20 BST (UK) »
Hello Seoras,

Don't know if you have looked at this site. It has St Michael's Churchyard.

www.momento-mori.co.uk

Mags

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Re: Missing burial records
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 13 July 13 10:42 BST (UK) »
Hi terianne, I didn't put names as I was just making a comment really. Anyway I have one of them now as she died two years later than I thought. The other however falls in the period of the missing records but it is for John Pate or Peat who died sometime between 1841 and 1851 in Linlithgow. I have what's left of the MI and have seen the grave, just don't know when he was put there.

Mags, thanks for the link.
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Missing burial records
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 13 July 13 18:58 BST (UK) »
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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« Reply #5 on: Saturday 13 July 13 21:00 BST (UK) »
Cheers Forfarian, I wondered why I wasn't getting anywhere when I clicked on it. He is on there sure enough, along with wife Isabella but no dates. I know when Isabella died however. It also mentions son George but as far as I know he isn't buried there but had the stone erected. He may even have made it, he was a mason.
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Missing burial records
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 14 July 13 10:33 BST (UK) »
Thanks Forfarian, you are being kind thinking it was a "slipped finger" - some slip across 5 or so keys!
Glad you found info Seoras. Got your PM, will reply.

Mags
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