Ebenezer Chapel ( Primitive Methodist) Halifax burial ground 1890s?

[Nugirl]

Thanks for your help Pat and I will try to contact the gentleman you have mentioned.
Will let you know if I find it 
Beverly

[dobfarm]

Hi Nugirl,

My advice would be wait till me Mr Melia comes back off holiday, as I think he has a map of the old graveyard also you will have noticed how overgrown the graveyard is in the old side of the graveyard down the banking toward that big tower, also behind the modern later graves. Overgrown means close trees with bushes, creeping spiky thorny things and also the graves have sunk with headstones that maybe dangerously loose. Just green long grass can cover a multitude of sins of holes as I went down one about a 18 inch deep and nearly broke my leg in another graveyard. Kingscross is one of the most dangerous graveyards there is! If you do go or anyone? either take someone with you and work in pairs in eye contact all the time in the old section or at least let someone know where you are going or doing. Best call at the police station as they then know! as they keep look out for theft also your safety as they know Kingscross well! Last make sure your moblie phone is charged.

Some graves have numbers visable and some can be seen around the stone edge , so then you can workout in rows & by dates of burial.

Take great care and above all be safe. 

Dob's

[Nugirl]

Many thanks for all your advice Dob's.

When it gets to the time to go in search i will take very good care and follow all your advice. 

Beverly

[dobfarm]

Best take a walking stick to prod in front of your as footing, unseen holes, vines and gentle prod the stones also take a pair of sectors and good walking shoes with plenty of grip (I use them ice grips over my shoes -see them online as cheap to buy). Keep out of the falling range of stones.

On sunny days that banking can be very slippy on grass or or part dried mood 

Dob's

[lani10]

Hi Charlotte,

Are these not the people that Andy helped you locate in King Cross Cemetery, Halifax in 2009? He also helped me at that time. James died 1895 and Ann 1896. They are buried in grave 798. I have attached a photo that Andy took for us. He also sent another photo of the small stone. It wasn't personalized but I can't remember if it just said #798. Search King Cross Cemetery and look for post May 9, 2009 from drewhowson for more info.

Jan 

[dobfarm]

Hi  Jan, Pan & Charlotte

Sorry to intrude again! but from Jan's photo!! please note the grave stones part hidden in the trees, bushes, vines, low growth to the left & right of the opening terrest as just to show how dangerous that cemetery is.

Dob's.

[lani10]

Hi Everyone,

Think I answered an old post of Charlotte's but anyhow. Andy (drewhowson) was instrumental in locating my great grandparents' grave in King Cross in 2009. When I visited there he "blazed" the trail so to speak and led us to the grave. It was my understanding that he was going to make a map.
Might check with him as he is exceptionally helpful.

Jan

[drewhowson]

Anyone want a grave finding in King Cross methodist graveyard let me know, i will gladly search for them, as some of you  have said, you need a machete and stout stick in place to get through the overgrown jungle.
I have replied to Nugirl with the directions to the grave she is looking for.
Regards,
Andy

[dobfarm]

Hi Andy,

Hope the police don't catch you with the machete, but you may get away with a hand scythe! I always contact the police, churchwarden or cemetery owner to ask advice of them before I start seaching as any does and don'ts.

Dob's