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Independent Islands => Isle of Man => Isle of Man Lookup Requests => Topic started by: Barrie Green on Sunday 06 April 14 23:13 BST (UK)
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Our daughter (from New Zealand) will be in IOM for a very short time in May and in between nursing shifts will visit/take photos any of the ancestral spots important to our Manx heritage.
One will be in the Onchan (St. Peter) Kirkyard where John Edward Flower who died 26 October 1923 at Douglas, was buried 30 October 1923 in Kirk Onchan (St. Peter) Churchyard.
We, here in New Zealand, wonder if there is a headstone, and is there a quick way to search the Churchyard e.g.plot and row numbers to identify the site.
Grateful for any suggestions - Faith (Cubbin, Cubbon, Claque, Quayle, Gill and Moore) and Barrie Green (Green and Flower)
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Could you please check your records ---I cannot find your relation in Onchan burial records??
Would be pleased to do other lookups for you I live close by Manx Museum library.
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I have found John Edward's burial --date is correct but burial place is Douglas Borough
Cemetery . Will provide number & row info . tomorrow for you plus MI if there is a stone.
It will be easy to find as it is a modern grave yard with clearly labelled rows & a map at
the main gateway.
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;) Hi Voirrey
Thanks for your data. It appears that I have had incorrect data re the Cemetery for the John Edward Flower and have now adjusted my records.
How kind of you to assist me. One never ceases to be amazed by the help of other folk re Family History.
Have been pleased to find a Manx connection for myself as Faith, my wife, has published a book on her great grandfather John Chubbin (Cubbon).
Again thank you for your ever so kind help.
Barrie green.
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In/ Memory of / John Edward FLOWER / of Manchester and Sale / who died 26th October
1923 / aged 81 years / Also of / Elizabeth Ann / wife of the above/ who died 1st February
1919/ aged 64 years / and was interred at / S. Luke's Church , Cheetham , Manchester.
Ref. no. D 37. Map on wall at gateway has blocks marked. Not far to walk.
/ shows end of lines on headstone.
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Hi Voirrey
You have really made my day with your data a great bonus to add to the first rain we have had for months. It never rains but it pours seems an apt description. Nice to see the material to his wife, a first cousin, buried with her folks in St. Luke's Churchyard, Cheetham Hill.
Shona, our daughter, will easily find the headstone from your directions when she visits shortly. She was last there in 1955. We visited Douglas some years ago before we were aware of the Flower grave.
Again, ever so many thanks for helping extend our records for our Family History.
Barrie Green.