Manchester General Cemetery Transcription Project

[Viktoria]

Thanks,Ken.

Hope you areO.K.

Viktoria

[NDS]

Hello,

I'm Nija Dalal-Small and I'm a radio producer. I am working on a documentary about Robert Rose presented by Testament. I'd love to talk to someone at the Transcription project about the gravestone of Robert Rose, which I understand was uncovered in 2012.

Is the Transcription Project still going? Or can I talk to someone who was involved??

Please let me know - I'd love to have a brief chat and I won't take too much of your time.

Thank you,
Nija

[NDS]

Hello,

I'm a radio producer and I'm putting together a BBCR4 documentary about Robert Rose.
Will someone from the MGCTP please contact me?

All the best,
Nija

[BushInn1746]

Hello,

I'm a radio producer and I'm putting together a BBCR4 documentary about Robert Rose.
Will someone from the MGCTP please contact me?

All the best,
Nija

Hello Nija

I am not part of the project, but a Robert Rose and the uncovering of this memorial can be found here on the Web Archived site about the cemetery ...

Main Menu Archived on 2 January 2018
https://web.archive.org/web/20180102122035/http://www.mgctp.moonfruit.com/home/4546104223

From the Site Menu, click on Notable Burials1 , there is a Robert Rose image cutting and Memorial photgraph etc., direct link:-
https://web.archive.org/web/20180102122051/http://www.mgctp.moonfruit.com/notable-burials1/4548986750
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Some web archive links also posted at Reply 132 on this thread ...
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=637264.msg7404751#msg7404751

Mark

[NDS]

Thank you, yes, this is exactly what I'd love to speak to someone from the project about. It's a radio documentary so my presenter may like to interview someone from the project about this discovery. I hope someone from the project will respond here.

[beannie]

Hi Nina
I’ve sent you a personal message
It’s very exciting, her deserves to be known
Kind regards
Beannie

[Barbara.H]

Hi Beannie, been a long time, hope you are well!

I remember seeing Robert Rose's grave before we covered it up again, it was a real thrill and such a lovely headstone. John Bolton Rogerson (one of Robert's poet friends) was registrar of the General Cemetery wasn't he?   Hope the radio documentary goes well, I'm sure lots of people would find it fascinating.

Barbara

[beannie]

Hi Barbara
It’s good to hear from, we all worked so hard on the project!
I will let you know what happens re ; Robert Rose.
The project is still ongoing and we hope to get up to the cemetery sometime, we will let you know when, Cancan it still working very hard transcribing.
Hope you are well
Kind regards
Beannie

[Shazbaz]

Is there any way of finding out which graves are listed in your project please? I'm helping a friend to find out about her family history and we are trying to trace her great grandma Elizabeth Rodgers who is listed on the 1911 Welsh census with her husband Joseph Rodgers and their children but she left her husband and moved to Ashton with her children sometime around the mid 1900’s, my friend was told by her mother that her great grandma passed away from the Spanish flu in Ashton along with at least one of her children but we can't find her death recorded anywhere, if anyone can help I would be very grateful.
Unfortunately, we don't know Elizibeth’s maiden name and if she reverted back to her maiden name before she died we have no way of knowing.
Thank you for reading and to anyone who can help,
Sharon