Offer: Llangynwyd and Maesteg Cemetaries

[GarethMorgan]

Hello Halfasheep

How are you getting on with the Llan graveyard

Gareth

[halfasheep]

Incredibly slowly! Not fully realising the scale of this project, I may have severly underestimated the time required do undertake this huge task.

I've decided to do Maesteg first as GFHS have already covered the majority of Llan cemetery (albeit there are a few new internments and memorials popping up there).

It doesn't look like a lot of work, but it definately is! I have the majority of the work in notebooks at the moment - once I have started putting them into a computer spreadsheet, I'll let you all know.

[GarethMorgan]

Hello Halfasheep

What exactly are you doing. Transcribing or taking photos of the graves.

Gareth

From a sunny Maesteg

[halfasheep]

Transcribing, and creating a map showing where each grave is (yes this is going to be a lot of fun!).

I was going to do photo's, but I think I'll do them on a request basis only until I've finished the transcribing. I am hoping to eventually have burial dates, etc, as well

Luckily, the gravediggers/council workers there are VERY helpful, and so long as you know the year that someone died, they will look up the plot number, the date of burial, and they also have the last known address of the deceased too. Sadly, they're only there during the working week, so this will take some time to get burial dates, etc, off them (although it beats the £30 fee the council charge if you ring the offices!)

[GarethMorgan]

Hello Halfasheep

Both transcribed I did a rough map of Maesteg for GFH, not too sure if they used it.

No photos of the graves.

Gareth

From a sunny Maesteg

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[GarethMorgan]

Hello Halfasheep

What ancesters are you looking for.

Gareth

[halfasheep]

I didn't realise that Maesteg Cemetery had been transcribed? I knew Llan had - wish I knew sooner (not that I didn't enjoy tramping up and down the rows of graves with a notepad looking quite insane).

Think I found just about everyone I was looking for, but suspect a few of them are in unmarked graves as I know they're not in Llan - still looking for deaths in the records to try and locate the plots - not easy when you know that they were still alive in 1901, but no idea after that!

[GarethMorgan]

Hello Halfasheep

Give me some names. I will see what I can do.

Gareth

[halfasheep]

Lovely - in work at the moment, all my stuff is in the house, so will have to find the names - only two of them, both Buckley, I would have thought that they had died before 1940 (given approx DOB's), but after 1901. I haven't found the grave yet, so I suspect it may be unmarked