Carnmoney Cemeteries Newtownabbey

[julia.n]

Hi. I hope I'm posting this in the correct place. For several years now we have been trying to find a date and place of death for my husband's 2nd great grandfather James Saunderson. We know that his wife Eliza was a widow at the time of the 1901 census. Have searched in vain for a death record on GRONI. On a recent visit to Belfast we decided to try the Belfast Telegraph library as we knew Eliza's date of death was 16/03/1908. We managed to find a death insertion which stated that she was to be buried at 'Carnmoney Family Burying Ground'. I now realise that there are quite a few cemeteries this could be referring to. We've contacted Newtownabbey Borough Council but they could find nothing. If anyone has any suggestions or can offer any help that would be great.

[Girl Guide]

Do you have an address for her at the time of her death?  If so it might be worth finding out what church would have covered the area in which she lived.

If the church still exists they may have a record of her burial.  Worth a try.

Could James have been registered as Sanderson instead of Saunderson?

[Sinann]

Eliza is listed in the Will Calendars with her address as Prospect View Greenisland, son William postman.
Perhaps you should look for William's grave, as it's possible he is buried with his parents and perhaps their names were never put on the headstone.
http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/reels/cwa/005014915/005014915_00559.pdf

[aghadowey]

Is this the correct Eliza in 1901? If so, she's Presbyterian and Presbyterian churches very, very rarely would have kept burial records.
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Carrickfergus_Rural/West_Division/992040

[julia.n]

Thank you all for your useful replies. I have learned the hard way to check different spellings of surnames so always check for 'Saunderson' and 'Sanderson'. James and Eliza's daughter-in-law Mary (and presumably son William) is (according to Billiongraves) buried in Carnmoney Cemetery 1940. I still need to check with Newtownabbey Borough Council to find out how many are buried in that plot. As for finding where James and Eliza are buried my best guess is the Church graveyard. My reasoning for this is that James died pre-1901 and I believe Carnmoney Main and East were opened after this date. Aghadowey - yes that is the correct census entry. From rootschat I printed a copy of a map of the Church graveyard and have convinced myself (using a magnifying glass!) that I've spotted the name Saunderson. If anyone has copies of books or CD's of gravestone inscriptions for any of the cemeteries mentioned I'd be really grateful for a look-up!

[aghadowey]

A William Saunderson (d.1900) and wife Mary buried Carnmoney-
https://billiongraves.com/grave/WILLIAM-SAUNDERSON/16889176

Lots of Carnmoney headstone transcribed here-
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jeanmccarthy36/carnmoney_main_cemetery_section_d.htm