James Maghie's Grave

[aspin]

James Maghie was killed on 5 .8.1867

He and his family lived at Scotsby Cumberland

Can anyone help as to where James might be buried

I don't think there will be a head stone as James was the father of 10 children

I am not sure but I think the Church at Scotsby was built after 1867

Elizabeth

[GeoffE]

Did you mean Scotby?

Apparently part of Wetheral parish http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CUL/Wetheral/index.html

If you search for Scotby at www.old-maps.co.uk the 1868 map has the Church marked close to the railway, so I guess there was a church there in 1867.

The first household in the 1861 census of Scotby was headed by (living at the Parsonage) ...
John McALLISTER 34 Perpetual Curate of Scotby, Ireland

[GeoffE]

Google maps shows a churchyard.

[bobgraham]

I don't have to prowl around Scotby graveyard as well do I?
 
bob

[aspin]

Geoff,

This looks great

I thought of having a day over that way and thought if I could get a plot number or some help I would try to find James's grave

As i say with 10 children there will be no headstone

I wrote to Scotby a few yeas ago ( this was for the marriage of James and Ann 1847) unknown to me at the time they ran away to Gretna , and I was told the church wasn't built then .

They are in the 1861 census and then in the 1871 census Ann is a widow in Carlisle .
I have all this and also James's coroners report and his death certificate

It would be nice to have a photo of his grave to finish the story off

Bob wish you could find him that would be great


Elizabeth

[bobgraham]

Oh! It's nearly Christmas and I know the local copper so my time in questioning won't be as long.! So I'll give it a try but it won't be this weekend as the grandkids are coming and they seem to think I'm fairly normal.
I'm only doing it cos I dropped geoff in it the other day.
bob

[GeoffE]

I'm only doing it cos I dropped geoff in it the other day.

Perhaps if you were to start the trip in a canoe, you could "disappear" and be absolved from any further responsibility.  (Don't forget to take a supply of sandwiches.  You should also decide whether or not to tell the missus.) 

[aspin]

Good morning both

I seem to be missing something here 

Elizabeth 

[bobgraham]

No you're not missing anything.  But I'm definitely not telling the missus anything. Why break the habit of a lifetime? Well 5 years!
It hasn't been that wet here Geoff to take the canoe. We live right on the river/bridge at Lanercost so we are fairly clued up on river levels.
I'll try to make it one morning this week on my way into work, Elizabeth, if only to work out the size of the graveyard and the state of the gravestones which was the problem at Brampton.
bob