Check for Plot at Douglas Borough Cemetery

[JayneD33]

Thank you!  We'll head there tomorrow.

I've also passed the information (re confusion of Onchan/Douglas cemetery) on to the parish clerk at St Peter's who may get other queries of this sort.

[JayneD33]

Good luck with your search Jayne. I have yet to make it to the Isle of Man, but it's on my list!

Thank you!  It's my first time here, and it's a lovely place with friendly people.

So far we've managed to find two houses which the husband's grandparents lived in. And have been invited to look round one of those tomorrow evening!

To visit the grave and pay our respects before we leave would be so good. So thanks again for breaking doown the brick wall and helping us towards achieving that!

[KGarrad]

Thank you!  We'll head there tomorrow.

I've also passed the information (re confusion of Onchan/Douglas cemetery) on to the parish clerk at St Peter's who may get other queries of this sort.

Possibly Ancestry got confused?!
Before Douglas was a parish in it's own right, it was split between Onchan parish and Braddan parish.
Although 1944 was rather late in the day

[KGarrad]

Follow up:
I met with JayneD33 and her husband today,and sorted things out!
Douglas Borough Cemetery; MI found; Grave reference found.

A satisfied couple!

[JayneD33]

Thank you so much for your help and guidance, Kevin. It was lovely to meet you and share genealogy and life stories!
After we left you we went to the Borough Cemetery, paid our respects and planted a rose tree on the grave. So good tp be able to do that before we left to go back home to Somerset.

Jayne

[Blue70]

Thanks for this thread it explains why we couldn't find a grave at Onchan Cemetery last year, they're at Douglas. Onchan is a nice cemetery though so not a wasted trip.

C