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Aberdeenshire / Cemetery admin records - help required please
« on: Wednesday 25 December 19 11:51 GMT (UK) »
Hi all
Merry Christmas to you all.
Last night I was reading a fiction book and it got me thinking. I've been trying to find the birth, marriage and death of a great great aunt. It's a complex story (when isn't family history complex!). My x3 great grandfather (James Watt b 1822, d 1879 - cabrach) fathered my x2 great grandfather with his cousin (Ann Henry).
He later went on to have a daughter (Jessie Watt) with ?. In the 1861 census they lived in Huntly (Jessie was 7) and 1871 she was 15, again living with her father in Huntly.
I can't find her birth or death records but I have visited James grave on which she is mentioned.
The gravestone was erected by James's sister who died in 1919.
My queries are:
1. How can I find out if Jessie is actually buried there? Would a gravestone give details even if she wasn't buried there?
2. How can I find out when the inscription was placed there?
The inscription states "in loving memory of James Watt, Merchant Huntly who died at Chalmers Hospital Banff 17.03.1879 aged 55 years. Also his daughter Jessie".
Hence I'm wondering if she was buried there - Dunbennan Cemetery.
Any advice would be gratefully appreciated.
Thank you
Karen
Merry Christmas to you all.
Last night I was reading a fiction book and it got me thinking. I've been trying to find the birth, marriage and death of a great great aunt. It's a complex story (when isn't family history complex!). My x3 great grandfather (James Watt b 1822, d 1879 - cabrach) fathered my x2 great grandfather with his cousin (Ann Henry).
He later went on to have a daughter (Jessie Watt) with ?. In the 1861 census they lived in Huntly (Jessie was 7) and 1871 she was 15, again living with her father in Huntly.
I can't find her birth or death records but I have visited James grave on which she is mentioned.
The gravestone was erected by James's sister who died in 1919.
My queries are:
1. How can I find out if Jessie is actually buried there? Would a gravestone give details even if she wasn't buried there?
2. How can I find out when the inscription was placed there?
The inscription states "in loving memory of James Watt, Merchant Huntly who died at Chalmers Hospital Banff 17.03.1879 aged 55 years. Also his daughter Jessie".
Hence I'm wondering if she was buried there - Dunbennan Cemetery.
Any advice would be gratefully appreciated.
Thank you
Karen
