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I have visited St Kentigern's several times searching for family graves. With my ancestors, many have no headstones at all and for those lairs which do, they are broken or lying face down. The council does not remove broken or damaged headstones, they just ensure that they are not a hazard to visitors.

Finding the location of a lair within any particular section is no easy matter. The council do not provide detailed maps. In my experience, and this goes for all the other cemeteries I have visited, one needs to visit in person and ask assistance from the ground staff. I have always found grave diggers and groundsmen very helpful. If you are unable to visit in person you may have to rely on someone doing you a favour. Headstones and memorials usually have the lair number chiselled into the base somewhere. This can help to narrow down the search area.

Good luck.

Thanks RJ. That's very helpful and I would agree with your line of thought.
Perhaps searching newspapers and church records might be more fruitful in obtaining details.

Annie was born in England 06 Dec 1876 and moved to New Jersey with her parents in the 1880's. They lived mainly in Jersey City. Both parents died of Typhoid before the turn of the century and Annie became de facto mother and father to her younger siblings.

The last trace of her I have is the 1930 census still unmarried. Can anyone help beyond this date?

From Ancestry I have a hit for a Life Claim in the US Social Security Applications and Claims Index for 11 Apr 1952 but I don't understand how to use this. All notes on Ancestry refer to getting a copy of the SS-5 Application from the Federal authorities but isn't this just the initial SSI application for a number? What I want to see is the claim application.

I have her SSI number but no death details come up using this on the SSDI.

Any advice or ideas would be welcome.

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Hi to all you people interested in St Kentigern's. I found this thread purely by chance.I don't know why I haven't tried to find family graves in Glasgow before, I just assumed it would be a difficult task. So I visited The Mitchell this week on a whim and within 20 minutes of using their microfilm records found four family members in two graves in St Kentigern's.
I have section 2 lair 1471 and section 6 lair 2167. The family name is McElhinney.

I asked about the lair registers and was told that they are still in Edinburgh for digitisation. I note in this thread a similar comment from four years ago! I was also advised that for a fee of about £10 I can ask for the info I'm seeking but it could take up to 8 weeks for a reply. I'll pass.

Today I visited the cemetery for the first time (I've recently moved to the Maryhill area, so I'm close by). I doubt if there will be any headstones so this visit was more to get an idea of the look of the place. I have copy of the Glasgow City Council's cemetery map from the Mitchell's Family History website. I've noticed a slight difference between this and the one originally added to this thread. The council's map shows part of section 2 next to section 13, whereas the other shows this part as section 12. Could someone check for me please?

I didn't find the grave locations and trying to find the numbers on those stones still existing was not easy. I'd be grateful for any advice otherwise I'll visit another time when there might be staff around.
Denis