Drumgauty House Bready County Tyrone

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As I live overseas and my geography is not the best is anyone able to help me please?.  William Meredith Miller lived at Drumgauty House Bready County Tyrone and died 26 June 1958. Would anyone know where he is buried ie is there a cemetery at Bready?
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[joemc]

Hi, he may be buried at Dunnalong parish church graveyard, or possibly Mountcastle graveyard about 2 miles to the east of Bready.

Regards

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Thank you for your information re the burial grounds.  I will check it out and see what can be done. Have just received the death certificate of Margaret Theodora Miller of the same address so that gives me more to go on.

[joemc]

Hi again,

I got a chance to visit the 2 graveyards mentioned but did not find a grave for William Meredith Miller, in fact neither graveyard contained any Miller memorials (that I could see)

Regards

[glensman]

Judging from their will abstracts, William and his wife were well off. So it is very likely that they would have a headstone somewhere :

http://applications.proni.gov.uk/DCAL_PRONI_WillsCalendar/WillsSearchResults.aspx

Maybe an obvious thing to say but a newspaper obit is your most likely source of the information.

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Sorry I have taken so long to reply but we needed to go interstate to look after a sick daughter who had a rather urgent operation.

Yes I am sure there will be a headstone somewhere unless their son, who lived in Cheshire, England never bothered to erect one. I do appreciate your help. If you do ever find out anymore I would be most appreciative.  Ongoing

[aghadowey]

Many people didn't put up headstones and many old ones are illegible or didn't survive.

Have you tried searching for a death notice and/or obituary in the local newspaper? Quite often they will list place of burial. Also, if Church of Ireland burial there might be an entry in the birth register.

[dathai]

was the sons name William Peter
http://kabristan.org.uk/kabristan-indexes/sri-lanka-indexes/66-sri-lanka-formerly-ceylon-births-baptisms-indexes/ceylon-births-baptisms-sri-lanka-nuwara-eliya/1155-nuwara-eliya-birthbaptism-records-ceylon-sri-lanka-m

[joemc]

I can see William and wife recorded on a passenger manifest from 1949 London to Columbo, age 48, occupation Planter, address given as Yardley Court, Tonbridge, as far as I can see Yardley Court was/is an preparatory school for boys in Tonbridge, Kent?

He was 57 when he died, so probably not retired, do you know why he came back to Ireland?

Looks like him in the 1911 census

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Donegal/Buncrana/Buncrana/491768/


 He may have been buried in a family plot in the Buncranna or Londonderry city as both parents were born there

Update: see parents grave in city cemetery but William not mentioned:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=miller&GSiman=1&GScid=2139939&GRid=102901179&

Quite a nice little bio of his father accompanying photo of grave.

Update 2:

Looking at the Will Calender entry for father Sir Francis Miller I see the administrator was Barry F McCorkell, he was married to Mary Eileen Miller, sister of William Meredith Miller ( I have more information on that line if your interested)