Graveyard in Glasgow

[anniedwyer84]

Hello - I'm just wondering if anyone would know if there is a graveyard near Martha Street, Glasgow please?

Cheers,
Annie

[IMBER]

Not sure what period you are interested in etc but on the off chance here is a link to a previous thread:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=391868.0

Imber

[scotmum]

Was just about to post the same, 1 Martha Street is the Registry office.

[anniedwyer84]

Thank you both...will be ordering the death cert next week and hopefully that will give what graveyard she is buried in 

[Forfarian]

Thank you both...will be ordering the death cert next week and hopefully that will give what graveyard she is buried in 

It won't tell you the graveyard unless it's between 1855 and 1860.

[Skoosh]

The nearest graveyard to Martha Street is the Ramshorn Kirkyard in Ingram Street which belonged to the merchants. The nearest cemeteries will be the Necropolis & Sighthill.

Skoosh.

[anniedwyer84]

Thanks Forfaria and Skoosh...I might give the cemeteries an email and see what comes of it

[Forfarian]

I might give the cemeteries an email and see what comes of it

A request for money, most likely

There is a CD-ROM of the inscriptions on the surviving stones in the Necropolis.

[Skoosh]

Annie, I take it your folk lived in Martha Street and you assume they'll be buried in the nearest cemetery? It might not be that simple, if they were Catholics they might be as far away as Dalbeth and if not they could be anywhere in the city. A search of the records without knowing which cemetery would, as Forfarian says, be expensive if not impossible. Check the Glasgow cemeteries on here,  the site concentrates on monumental inscriptions not burials but you might be lucky.  If they lived in Martha Street, which is just above George Square, they possibly had a few bob for a stone. 

 http://memento-mori.co.uk/

Skoosh.