Cemeteries - Shankill

[Esther]

Could someone please tell me which cemeteries a person living in the St Anne's Shankill area would be buried in? The burials would be dated in the early 1800s.

Thanks,
Esther

[DixieDee]

Hi Esther.
Check out the website below.
www.glenravel.com
It has the burial registers for Clifton St., Cemetery online.

The Shankill Graveyard on the Shankill Rd., is another possible, but I don't know if there are burial records for it. If you contact the Cemeteries Office, Belfast City Council, they may have some info. Email address,
parksinfo[at]belfastcity.gov.uk

Regards,
Dixie

[aghadowey]

Esther- I have Gravestone Inscriptions (Belfast, vol. 1 ) which includes Shankill Graveyard. Let me know what names you are looking for and I can chek to see if there's a headstone listed.

[Esther]

Hi,

Thanks for the replies. I had a quick look at the Clifton St Cemetery Online site which I will search properly later.

The names I am looking for are:
GORDON Thomas and Jane
GORDON Adam
GORDON David
According to a marriage record I have, David Gordon died before 1865.

Esther

[aghadowey]

Esther- none of those names appear in the book. If they are buried there perhaps there's no headstone.

[DixieDee]

Hi Esther.
The site below lists a lot of Gordons resident in Belfast in mid 1800's.
www.failteromhat.com/
Select the Griffiths Valuations from the index, then search Antrim.
Down has quite a few as well. I never tried any other counties.
If the family originated outside Belfast, it's possible the burial took place in the area the family originally came from.
Regards,
Dixie

[Esther]

Thanks for all the help with the Gordon cemetery search, it is much appreciated.

Esther

[r1b1c7]

I don't know how well people know the Shankill Road area but if not a little info on the graveyard. It is very very old - I mean 700 years old, perhaps older. (Shankill means Old Church, and the original old church was on this site. When I was young it was completely overgrown. In the 70s, I think, the council cleared most of the gravesones and made it into a little park - just for walking in - leaving some of the gravesones in place. However, most of them have gone. The Graveyards Inscriptions volume is very useful but I am not sure it is complete. My g grandmother was buried and had a distinctive headstone, there but is not in the book. I tried the Cemeteries office a while ago for the records but they said there had been a fire some time ago which had destroyed them. Might be worth trying again though. You might get a different story.

[Esther]

Thanks  r1b1c7, for the background info on the cemetery at Shankill Rd. I have become used to the limited information to be found in Ireland but I remain hopeful of tracking down these elusive Gordons. I must admit it is nice to hear that the cemetery has been turned into a park as most cemeteries I come across seem to make way for motorways.
Many thanks once again,
Esther