Graveyard St Andrews

[elaine gray]

Morning, my gtgt gran is buried in the churchyard down beside sea (there's a ruined building there too (sorry can't remember the name). Few years back I contacted maybe somewhere in Cupar to get details to help me find grave but sure that place is now closed. Does anyone know where I contact now?
Everytime I visit the town I do try to look for the grave def needle /haystack!!
Thanks
Elaine

[Forfarian]

Any surviving burial records should be in the care of Fife Council https://www.fife.gov.uk/

[elaine gray]

Hi, have now been sent form to fill in and have asked for wee map as I realised I had cemetery and plot no on my tree!
Thanks

Oh, have other St Andrews related question. Does anyone of a certain age remember where the shop was that had all the buckets and spades etc hanging outside?? We went to St Andrews for our holidays in the 1960s and me and the wee sis were shopping there recently and could not agree on its location!! What's there now would help!!!
Cheers
Elaine

[Andrew C.]

I have a picture in my head that there was a shop on the corner of South Castle Street and North Street that used to have buckets and spades etc hanging outside. This would have been next to the Castle public house. I presume you are talking about the cemetery at the cathedral which is just along the road.

[elaine gray]

Hi, OK, I'm trying to think where that is. Will def look next time I'm down shopping. I thought it's where the wee cinema is now?? Are you talking about diagonally opp fat face? That's where my sis thought it was?
Regarding the cemetery, yes, I actually found the grave about a month ago. I got plan from council. Sadly as the stone is made of red sandstone? All the lettering had come away was its a blank stone. Would love to have seen her name. Her sisters stone, adjacent, was OK. What a lovely graveyard, amazing setting.
Thanx
Elaine

[Andrew C.]

In the corner where you sister is talking about there was a toy shop, not sure what is there now. I could be wrong but I was thinking of a shop on North Street which looked down towards the castle across from the Episcopal Church. I’m also wondering if the shop next Janettas has buckets and spades outside before it was a hardware shop.

[elaine gray]

Hi the problem I have is that I don't know the names of the streets, shameful as I visit often. We went in the 60s!!! I've got it in my head it's where wee cinema is. I will have a look at the church you mention next time.
You mention hardware shop, the owner of the plots my gt gt grandmother and her sister are
 buried in were owned by William? Wilson, the sisters husband. He had a hardware shop on North Street, oh that would be 1890s, seems to have been quite well off. Don't expect anyone to remember that.
Elaine

[Andrew C.]

The cinema is on North Street, Market street in the middle where Fat Face is and South street is where Madras College was,

[elaine gray]

Hi, that's great. Well I'm sure it was North Street, there's a kind of large entrance to something next to the cinema, pillars? Thet always stuck in my mind. Tho as it was a long time ago I could be wrong!! I envy my ancestors living there! Lovely place.
Thanks for taking the time to try and solve this. Might try and find some old photos or postcards!
Elaine