RootsChat.Com

Thank you so much for this information on my Sligo relatives in Greyfriars burial ground. 👏

In the Summer of 1959 while my parents were honeymooning in Scotland, my Grandfather asked Mum to take a side trip to Perth to find this grave. Funnily enough, she said ‘no’. 😆
65 years later, I’m now in Perth for the first time, and I found them. 👍 Grandfather would be very pleased indeed!

For others who might be looking and stumble across this post in future years, it is closest to the entrance off Tay St. if you enter off the main entrance, walk left and follow the path around to the right until you just about reach the other entrance. It will be on your right, two rows in, lying flat on the ground. There is no upright section to this grave marker. It is behind one that has, at this stage, a very clear 1840 at the top of its headstone.
Thank you again for your help! It was invaluable.

Oops, I've just reread the title of this thread and realise that it's pre-1855, so don't worry about it.

Thank you. Colin Gollan and Mary Waddle are Mary Gollan's parents. :-D

buckhyne, what a wealth of generous information you are!

If you are easily able, would it be possible for you to help me with an enquiry? Years ago I saw a report from the early book of cemetery records. I'm guessing that they might be among those whose tombstones are no longer extant or at least legible. The report I saw years ago, but can't now find, spoke of multiple sides of the upright tombstone having different names and generations.

My people were Sligo, (but not Irish).

I have the following detail for my great-great-great-grandfather, Alexander Sligo, who died 25 Feb 1827:
Greyfriars Cemetery, Perth, Block D Plot 158
He was a Hostler to Mr Christie? Vintner at George Inn, Perth in about 1805.

His wife Janet (Meek) was buried in the same plot on 13 Jan 1842 having died on the 10th.

Their son Archibald (a shoemaker who lived and worked in High St) (d.1876) outlived both of his wives (Grace Skellie d. 1847 and Mary Gollan d. 1867) and they are all listed as having been buried in Greyfriars. If I remember correctly from my earlier reading, they might have been in the same plot, or at least Grace and Archibald.

When my parents married 60 years ago, they honeymooned in Scotland. My Mum's Dad wanted her to go to Greyfriars to find the graves of his grandparents. Funnily enough, my Mum declined. My Grandfather died in 1965, and he'd already taken his paternal line back into the 1700s. With all the computing power now available, I've only been able to take his line maybe one generation further back, and I'm not even sure about that, because it seems that at least one of the Sligos had an alias of Forbes. Or maybe it was the other way round.

At some point I will travel from Australia and would love to have a more specific idea of where my ancestors are. buckhyne, are you able to help me out here?

Thank you so much, Alison