Anne Wemyss ms. Valentine

[suzilad]

I am hoping someone can help me find where Anne is buried or her obituary .
 All I know is that the cemetery is somewhere near Dunfermline as I visited it as a child .

Anne died on 17Th June 1948 at 15 Kirkgate Dunfermilne  which was her home address .  Her husband James Wemyss was the manager of The Abbey Public House and I believe this is where she died .
James did remarry and died many years later .
I have contacted several places in Fife trying to get this information including their bereavement services but they have never ever replied to my requests.

suzilad

[Rosinish]

Sorry, no help re burial.

From the VRs (Valuation Rolls), 1940, earliest online, the Old Abbey Tavern at 17 Kirkgate...

COWAN CHRIS Proprietor Occupier
OLD ABBEY TAVERN 17 KIRKGATE DUNFERMLINE - 1940 - VR002600059-

HYND JAMES Tenant
HOUSE 15 KIRKGATE DUNFERMLINE - 1940 - VR002600059-

HYND JAMES Tenant
SHOP 15 KIRKGATE DUNFERMLINE - 1940 - VR002600059-

There are several others at 15 as 'Tenant', suggesting possibly a tenement block above a shop?

I think if the death was in the 'Inn' it would have stated the name of the Inn.

I have one such where a woman (a worker) died in an Hotel/Inn, the name of which is recorded on her death cert.


Annie

[Rosinish]

I have contacted several places in Fife trying to get this information including their bereavement services but they have never ever replied to my requests.

It would be an idea to state the 'places' you've already contacted so people don't include those in their suggestions.

Edit to add...

You say "the cemetery is somewhere near Dunfermline" i.e. what makes you think it isn't in Dunfermline?

If it is outside Dunfermline, this may include a different County?

Do you know where Anne's parents are buried, could she be buried with them?


Annie

[MonicaL]

I had a look here, but couldn't see anything unfortunately. There is mention of the Old Abbey Tavern and a previous landlord but that was it www.dunfermlineheritage.org/uploads/1/5/6/2/15623980/1_new_ground__database.pdf

Monica

[suzilad]

Thank you both for your replies .

I have written to various cemeteries and the Fife bereavement services over the last fifteen years
I don/t remember her but an older cousin remembers  staying with her and her husband James at a flat above the "pub " towards the end of the war.
I have them in 1935 on Valuation Roll in Albion Road  Edinburgh he was James Tait McLaren Wemyss but not on 1940.
Anne or Nan as she was called was only 44 when she died . Her parents are both buried in Edinburgh .I have been to their graves and she is not buried with them as it is only the two of them in it. I received this information via Mortonhall Crematorium
I remember going to her grave with my parents but I was very young .

suzilad

[Rosinish]

Where & when were James & Anne married?

This may give a clue to where she may be buried e.g. if Protestant/Catholic there may be different areas around where she lived/died which might determine where/which?

Annie

[suzilad]

They were married 14 th September 1934  11, Royal Terrace Edinburgh  according to the Forms of Church of Scotland,

suzilad

[Rosinish]

It might be worth emailing/writing/phoning these with all details?

Dunfermline Cemetery, 90 Robertson Rd, Dunfermline KY12 0AP

Hillend Cemetery, Clockluine Rd, Dunfermline KY11 7HS

Torryburn Cemetery, Cairneyhill Road, Torryburn, Fife


Annie

[Rosinish]

Could this be James in 1940...

WEMYSS JAMES T - Tenant
HOUSE 74 QUEEN ANNE STREET DUNFERMLINE - 1940 - VR002600059-

Annie