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Morley Road Cemetery Rhyl - Tombstones
« on: Thursday 16 August 12 21:11 BST (UK) »
The Morley Road Cemetery,Rhyl was landscaped and the plan and Monumental Inscriptions can be seen at Rhyl Library.
Does anyone know what happened to the tombstones/memorials?
Are they in store somewhere/can they be viewed?
An initial enquiry to Denbighshire C.C. suggested that those in sufficient condition were positioned around the perimeter,but that does not appear to be the case.

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Re: Morley Road Cemetery Rhyl - Tombstones
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 19 August 12 16:40 BST (UK) »
Word has it that they were buried.
Hill in Tavistock, Twose and Coles in Halberton, Flower in Havant and Wells.
Negus in Polebrook  Jones in Kingswinford, Phillips in Chirk, Dodd in Cheshire

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« Reply #2 on: Sunday 19 August 12 18:50 BST (UK) »
Thanks for your response.Denbighshire C.C. suggested  that was the fate of those in poor condition,perhaps it was true of all.Perhaps I will try to find a contemporary newspaper account.

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« Reply #3 on: Monday 20 August 12 20:24 BST (UK) »
I have sent you a PM which may assist you.
Hill in Tavistock, Twose and Coles in Halberton, Flower in Havant and Wells.
Negus in Polebrook  Jones in Kingswinford, Phillips in Chirk, Dodd in Cheshire


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Re: Morley Road Cemetery Rhyl - Tombstones
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 01 September 12 17:38 BST (UK) »
Morley Road Cemetery -   I too am looking for burials there.
I have telephoned the Library at Rhyl, but sadly the person who knows all about them
(and it appears no-one else)  is on holiday.  There is a transcript I hear.
Not sure when she will be back ???????????????

I am lookiong for the burial of David Conway who died 1865 in Rhyl -  late of Liverpool

Joan

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Re: Morley Road Cemetery Rhyl - Tombstones
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 01 September 12 18:55 BST (UK) »
Yes,there is a book of monumental inscriptions and a hand drawn scale map of the relevant positions.I will probably be nearby next week and will call in to look for your record unless you post in the meantime that you have the info.
The cemetery was closed to new plots(but not new burials in the same plot) in 1891.

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Re: Morley Road Cemetery Rhyl - Tombstones
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 01 September 12 23:47 BST (UK) »
David Conway died in June 1864 in Rhyl
For background,in case you don't have it,census refs as follows:-

1861  4296 38 12  Bryn y Wal (between Rhyl and Rhuddlan)
1851  2189  71 47  Haigh St. Liverpool
1841  560  13/13  19   Jones Court Liverpool
(amongst his family is John Conway,here an apprentice at law who goes on to become an attorney/barrister,but dies before his father)

1851  2183  502  46  Joy Street,Liverpool (articled clerk)
1861  2725  86  42  Holly Hedge,Moor Lane,Great Crosby (attorney at law)

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Re: Morley Road Cemetery Rhyl - Tombstones
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 02 September 12 10:06 BST (UK) »
Hello Roger -  I went to Hawarden on Friday last and checked out some burial places i,e.
Rhyl, Abergele -    -   do you know what happened to the other children of David/Elizabeth
Some of his early children died in Liverpool and are buried in St. John, Liverpool churchyard
If you want these, let me know please.
I am in the process of looking back to the family of the parents of David -  i.e.  Robert Conway and Ann Williams of Bodellwyddan..... he was a slater.  The family go back to Abergele/Rhuddlan area...in the 17thc.
Robert was born c 1751 - but appears to be much older than Ann his wife who was born c 1776.
She died 1875 aged 91 years
Joan B
My story is from John Conway born 1799 and bapt. St. George - he married Elizabeth Jones in Liverpool 1824 and it is their daughter Jane who married Joseph Borrowscale in Liverpool
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Re: Morley Road Cemetery Rhyl - Tombstones
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 02 September 12 10:23 BST (UK) »
Morley Road Cemetery -   I too am looking for burials there.
I have telephoned the Library at Rhyl, but sadly the person who knows all about them
(and it appears no-one else)  is on holiday.  There is a transcript I hear.
Not sure when she will be back ???????????????

I am lookiong for the burial of David Conway who died 1865 in Rhyl -  late of Liverpool

Joan