New Dalry Cemetery, Edinburgh

[K44ENF]

I have an ancestor who died in 1890 and the Cemetery Registers have him buried in New Dalry Cemetery. Online, I can only find references and sites dealing with Dalry Cemetery which opened in the 1840s and looks as though it is having some fantastic restoration work done at the moment.

Is anybody aware if Dalry Cemetery and New Dalry Cemetery are one and the same? The ancestor died in St Cuthbert’s Poorhouse, if that adds to the picture at all.

[MonicaL]

Hi K44ENF

No, they are separate cemeteries although pretty close to each other.

New Dalry is now known as North Merchiston Cemetery. It opened sometime between 1874 and 1881 (different dates quoted).

See www.edinburgh.gov.uk/directory-record/1098660/north-merchiston-cemetery

Dalry Cemetery is just slightly north east of there if you are looking at a map.

Monica

[K44ENF]

Thank you very much for that, Monica. Another entry on my list of Edinburgh graveyards to visit.

Karen