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Hi Carol,

There is only one cemetery in Beith located at the bottom of King's Road and I don't think there is anything online for it. There is an older, small burial ground, now the BB Hall in Head Street which was originally a church dating from 1784 with graves listed on happyhaggis and has a Love recorded. The Auld Kirk was also a burial ground dating back even earlier, no specific graves but general info on the Beith website if you haven't already found it.

www.beith.co.uk
www.happyhaggis.co.uk

For more recent dates the King's Road cemetery is the most likely place.

Helen

I've just checked all the names I have so far on the snedden tree but I don't have them at the right age to be these witnesses. My Janet would only have been 3 years old then. Have you had a look through the link Alan put up for Douglas Grant's tree in a previous post? If you click on the father's name it takes you back a generation and you can see all the siblings names.

Good luck,

Helen

Helen, I haven't heard from my Stanners friends yet.  I'm not sure whether that means they are uninterested, but they may be on holiday.  I'll let you know if I hear from them.

Alan, I sent you a PM re Rooneys earlier.

Dave

Hi Dave

Thanks for trying them anyway. The Grant tree is great. I've been taking a while to trace Snaddons as I first thought they were Sneddons, then found out it was Snedden and now Snaddon.  It should be  a bit more straightforward now.

Regards,

Helen

Hi Meggy,

Thank you very much. That all sounds very interesting. Would the daughter in law be Helen Stanners, wife of Gilbert by any chance? She was the only wife I noticed named in the WW1 records.

I haven't got anywhere near as far back as you yet, I am working on Janet Stanners family at the moment but it is very slow. I still haven't managed to trace all her children yet. Five of them show up on Douglas Grant's tree (the link provided by Alan) and I found them on Scotland's People too but I haven't had any success with the rest yet. I now know she had at least 10 children, one died in infancy. Janet married Richard Snedden in 1896. She was a domestic servant and he was a stonemason. 

There is a story in the family that there is a swedish connection through Janet so I would like to find out if it is true. I have a copy of a photo of Janet with her husband Richard Snedden and 6 children which must have been taken around 1906, if you would like a copy let me know. At the time her husband was a master builder in partnership with a Mr Charles Jipps in Bo'ness and they built a number of properties which were tenanted. They lost the business, I don't know if they actually went bankrupt or not and then moved to Linlithgow.   

My grandfather Richard Snedden was born in 1904 at Hopetown Terrace, Bo'ness, married Margaret Bain in Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire in 1931 (name became Sneddon) and died in 1949 after a car fell on him (he was a motor mechanic). I believe he would have been your mother's cousin. Two of his sisters moved to Saltcoats in Ayrshire and Janet's husband also moved there to live with his daughters, no mention of Janet though. I'll let you know when I find out more.

Regards,

Helen

Hi everyone,

I have just started tracing my family tree and thought I'd post on here to find out if anyone had any information about these families. Unfortunately my grandparents died long ago so I know very little. I have ancestors in common with Meggy1 through Thomas Stanners and Christina McCallum but I don't have much info on their children and grandchildren.

The info I already have is
Richard Snedden married Janet Williamson Stanners (daughter of Thomas & Christina) in 1896 and had 9 children that I know of.

George, Thomas, Joan or Johan or Johanna, Richard (my grandfather) and Robert. I have a document showing these people were deceased by 1980, the other 4 I haven't listed as I don't know when/if they died. 

My ggrandfather Richard Snedden is listed as a stonemason and master builder and was one half of the partnership of Jipps & Snedden in Bo'ness. His parents were George Snaddon and Johanna, possibly Lumsden.

I tried to search for both George Snedden and Joan's death cert  (she became Joan Calder) on Scotland's people but had no success. 

If anyone has any info or family stories about these people I would be very grateful if you could share them with me.

Thanks,

Helen