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New Zealand Completed Requests / Eleanor Ernestine Beaumont (nee Stewart)
« on: Tuesday 12 December 17 22:15 GMT (UK)  »
My great aunt Maude Stuart emigrated from Ireland to NZ in 1898 and married Arthur Hill, or Holmes, in 1902.  She died in NZ in 1909.  I have all the relevant certificates for Maude.  In a newspaper article after her death, mention is made of Eleanor Beaumont who was apparently a first cousin of my great aunt.  I can find an entry for the marriage of Arthur Edwin Beaumont and Eleanor Ernestine Stewart in 1897 on the NZ BMD website and various entries on the electoral roll in the Lyttleton and Otago areas, but no further information.  Does anyone have any info about Eleanor - sometimes spelled Ellinor?  If I could trace more about her parents this might lead me to a connection with another branch of the Stuart/Stewart family.  Many thanks.

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Midlothian / Re: Burials in Mount Vernon Cemetery Edinburgh
« on: Sunday 15 October 17 13:42 BST (UK)  »
Thank you all for the extra comments.  Such a shame that I was in Edinburgh last year at the Tattoo and could have found the plot for myself.  I shall have to make another trip!
Regards

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Midlothian / Re: Burials in Mount Vernon Cemetery Edinburgh
« on: Tuesday 22 August 17 09:17 BST (UK)  »
Hello again, the three names have been checked and are on the headstone and I think I have partially solved the mystery.  Robert Norman married Mary Margaret Leahy in Cork in 1920.  Mary had a sister Catherine Frances.  She married Wilfred Mather (a soldier stationed at barracks in Cork) in 1921 in Cork. They had a daughter, Amy M Mather, whom I assume married Mr Malone but I cannot find the marriage. The only puzzle is why you would want to be buried in a plot with your brother in law's mother, so no blood relation, when your sister had already moved to London!  I cannot find Wilfred or Catherine/Frances Mather on the Scottish electoral rolls, but there is an Amy M Malone living in Edinburgh at the right time.  As they are not blood relatives I will not pursue this line any further.  Thanks for your help and interest.  Regards

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Midlothian / Re: Burials in Mount Vernon Cemetery Edinburgh
« on: Monday 21 August 17 11:13 BST (UK)  »
I spoke to Anna Culwicka (Superintendent?) at Mount Vernon this morning who was very helpful and checked the records for me while I was on the line.  She couldn't give me any details about the three mysterious burials as they receive a request from the undertaker with details of the plot number if there is one specific one to be used.  She does not have the correspondence with the undertaker on file so has suggested that I contact them direct.  One was St Cuthbert's Co-operative Society (now Scotmid Funerals) and the other Thomas Marin.  I will try emailing them.  Ms Culwicka is going to send one of her staff out to the plot to see if there is a headstone and whether the three names are on it.  She says that if they are, a relationship is implied....  Thank you for the offer of taking a photo.  Let me try to find out some more info and I might take you up on that!  Watch this space   Regards

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Midlothian / Re: Burials in Mount Vernon Cemetery Edinburgh
« on: Sunday 20 August 17 12:17 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks for those replies.  I will ring the cemetery office and make enquiries.  I expect the answer will be that they tried to contact the lair holder and had no reply (the family had moved to London in about 1946) and that the grave was reused to maximise the space available! Regards to both

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Midlothian / Burials in Mount Vernon Cemetery Edinburgh
« on: Saturday 19 August 17 17:26 BST (UK)  »
My great aunt was buried in this cemetery in 1945 in a lair held by her son. I found the burial list and register, and the latter shows subsequent burials in 1951, 1973 and ashes in 2004. The names have nothing to do with my family. Is there a system in this cemetery/Scotland generally whereby burials can be made in a lair held by someone else?  Do they have to have permission from the lair holder?  My first cousin once removed died in 1978 in London so would have been alive when two of these burials were carried out.  Any information gratefully received.  Thanks

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Cork / Re: Jane Stuart died Corkbeg 1908
« on: Tuesday 10 January 17 11:10 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for that info. I didn't know that about nursing homes and non registration of deaths.  That might explain a lot!

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Cork / Re: Jane Stuart died Corkbeg 1908
« on: Monday 09 January 17 22:08 GMT (UK)  »
The RIC data is taken from the service record and is correct.  Looks like Jane's death data is not on record.
Thanks to all for trying to help.

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Cork / Re: Jane Stuart died Corkbeg 1908
« on: Monday 09 January 17 16:39 GMT (UK)  »
No, according to his RIC record, William died in 1916; daughter Jane on the 1911 census married in 1918 (a month after her new husband's first wife died - oops) and died in 1923. Thanks

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