Aberdeen St Mary's with St Peters - Sepultum est in coemeterio "Innitatis Dielo"

[markharrison1973]

Hi,
Wonder if anyone can assist. i have found a burial record for my Great Grandfather Michael Scully 1923 from Aberdeen St Mary's with St Peters. It says Sepultum est in coemeterio "Innitatis Dielo" which i understand is Buried in the cemetery of Innitatis Dielo. Is "Innitatis Dielo" the Latin name of a cemetery in Aberdeen or does it mean something else. Any help appreciated. Regards Mark

[GR2]

"Innitatis Dielo" is meaningless in Latin. Perhaps it is a misreading for Trinity Cemetery. "Trinitatis" would be Latin for "of the Trinity".

Have you checked for a funeral notice in the newspaper?

[markharrison1973]

Thanks for that is looks like it could be Trinitatis. The T looks very like the I in Isabella further down the document but further down again it is also identical to the T in Thomson. So that would be Trinity Cemetery near Pittodrie then.

[Forfarian]

Is the second word 'dicto' rather than 'dielo'? This would make sense because it would then mean 'in the said cemetery of the Trinity'. is this from a page with lots of burials, some of the earlier ones also in Trinity Cemetery?

1923 seems very recent for the burial to be recorded in Latin. Is the rest of the page also in Latin?

[GR2]

Dicto makes perfect sense, as Forfarian says, especially as there are inverted commas round "Trinitatis".

[markharrison1973]

Thanks for the help. Got there in the End. There are several burials all recorded in Latin. However the cemeterys are all different. St Petri I would assume is St Peter's, and what looks like Nellfield. There is another Trinitatis further up but it's in different handwriting and easier to read. Regards Mark.

[markharrison1973]

In answer to the other question if haven't checked the Newspapers. I'm not sure of the resources for Aberdeen. I would doubt there would be a death notice as there was no family in that area and family story has it that his wife was so poor she had to basically walk back to Greenock. I will need to follow that up though. Are there any transcriptions of Trinity Cemetery that anyone is aware of. Regards Mark