Burial plots Scotland before 1930 help needed

[Forfarian]

Thanks very much, when l spoke to the girl at Stranraer they said they only had them from 1930 but surely the previous years must be somewhere?

Not necessarily. They could have been lost or destroyed, assuming that they existed in the first place.

I remember a similar quest for records of burials in a particular kirkyard in Banffshire. I had to give up after being told (by the person in whose custody the records would now have been) that the minister in the had chucked the burial records books on a bonfire because he didn't think they would be any more use to anyone.

And there's a book for a kirkyard in Moray that doesn't record the names of people buried there as late as the 1940s.

[imchad]

Hi, I was once told by a retired undertaker that most of the old burial registers were in the hands of Solicitors. It seemed that the undertakers all knew who, so why not try a local undertaker.  Try http://www.alexmccleary.co.uk/ he is based in Newton Stewart.

[STODDIE]

Thank you l will give it a go, much appreciated