"New" cemetary Cardiff 1923 COMPLETED

[marinerclark]

Hello   I'm in the US trying to firm up my Mom's memories. Her grandmother was buried in the New Cemetary in 1923.
               Rachel Morgan   d. 14 May 1923 age 62.  could be buried with Moses Morgan 22 Feb 1944 age 85
Other possibilities are John Gilbert Morgan  1928   Nellie Pitman died 1944
  Looking for Moses Mother Mary Morgan  alive in the 1891 census   age 76
 Thank you very much  What is the name of this cemetary now?  LizR

[osprey]

Could be Llandaff as that opened in 1922. There's a database for the period you need - email address here

www.rootschat.com/links/05mb/

[marinerclark]

Thanks for the link.  Jogged my Mom's memory and she came up with Cathays which matches the data base.  Can't afford searches so glad I have most of the dates.  Maybe it will be digitized someday  LizR

[osprey]

But it's only the manual searches for burials up to 1912 that you pay for. After  that, it appears to be free. 

 

[marinerclark]

You are right so I sent off the email   Thank you for keeping me on track   LizR

[ambers]

Hi marinerclark,

I found the people at Cathays  exceptionally helpful when I was searching for my grandparents buried there in 1913 and 1925...one search was free but not the other.

I asked for help in having a photograph taken of the Headstone, this they did for at no charge to me  (how kind is that). So I received two beautiful photographs from them, with the Inscription re-typed so I could see clearly who else was buried in the grave.  So I got all the information I needed without having to pay  for searches at all.

They even offered that when I was able to travel to Wales, that they would meet me at the gate and take me to the grave if I let them know when and at what time I would be there.

Ambers

[marinerclark]

Thanks Amber   My Mom took me to Saint Mary's in Grangetown in 1990 but the cemetary she didn't want to go that far?    Bet it was close.          LizR

[osprey]

If you didn't have a guide or some reference to the graves, you would have been very lucky to find them. The cemetery is huge - 110 acres! 
 
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/52831

 

[marinerclark]

Hi Heard back from the e-mail at Cathays Cemetary with dates and names.  Also those all important numbers and sections  Thank you for your help.  Wouldn't have got there without you  LizR