More Aberdeenshire Records

Look out for thousands more burial records from Deceased Online's Aberdeenshire Collection

By the end of Friday 2nd May, the Deceased Online database will hold over 75,000 burial records from Aberdeenshire in North East Scotland. All the burial grounds from this collection are managed by Aberdeenshire Council.

The magnificent 17th century Craigievar Castle lies close to the village of Alford, which features in the latest release

Aberdeenshire is a large county, covering 8% of Scotland's land mass, and is steeped in history. The parishes covered in the new release are predominantly rural, with a number, such as Alford, Udny and Cluny, lying in the shadows of great castles. Unfortunately, neighbouring Towie Castle now lies in ruins.

Auchindoir, which features in the latest records, takes its name from the Gaelic Auehindoir, or 'field of the chase'. This is associated with the flight of Macbeth's successor, Lulach, who is believed to have run through the parish to escape his foes. Sadly for him, he was unsuccessful, being executed in nearby Essie on 17th March 1058 (ref. © The Editors of the Gazetteer for Scotland, 2002-2013.).

This brings the total of Aberdeenshire burial grounds and kirkyards on the database to more than 50. The collection include scans of registers and grave details identifying all those buried in each lair. We hope to complete the collection within the next few weeks, and will include records from the old county of Kincardineshire. There are still more than 150 sites to be placed online.

New Competition

Thanks very much to everyone who entered the recent competition to win a copy of my latest book, My Ancestor was a Woman at War (SOG, 2013). Congratulations to the winner, Pam Smith from Harrogate.

For those who missed out, the good news is that the Society of Genealogists has kindly given us another two copies of the book for prizes. For another chance to win, simply answer the three multiple-choice questions below by midnight BST Friday 9th May and email info@deceasedonline.com:

(i) Who was known as 'the lady with the lamp'?

A Lady Canning

B Florence Nightingale

C Mary Seacole

(ii) Aethelflaed was the daughter of which famous English King?
A Alfred the Great

B William the Conqueror

C George III

(iii) Women killed in the First World War are named on memorial screens in which cathedral?

A Canterbury Cathedral

B St Paul's Cathedral

C York Minster

Competition Rules

entries by no later than midnight GMT on 9th May 2014

email your entries to: info@deceasedonline.com with heading: 'Woman at War competition'

entrants should provide full contact information including full postal address and at least one telephone number

only one entry per person/email address

the winning entry will be drawn by Deceased Online

judges' decision is final

the prize will be sent to the winner by post as soon as possible

We'll be adding more details on the Aberdeenshire data on our Facebook and Twitter pages over the coming week. Do 'like' and 'follow' to keep up to date!

Cluny Castle

New Maps Online for St Peter's Cemetery and Churchyard

New data for Scotland will be appearing on Deceased Online over the next couple of weeks. Here we give you an insight into our holdings on the cemeteries of Aberdeen. The ‘Granite City’, as Scotland's third largest city is known, features strongly in the Deceased Online database . You can search around 248,000 records from nine cemeteries and burial grounds, including St Nicholas Churchyard, Trinity Churchyard, Nigg Cemetery, John Knox Churchyard, St Peter's Cemetery - linked with Spital Churchyard, St Clement's Churchyard, Old Machar Churchyard, Grove Cemetery and Nellfield Cemetery. We have just added detailed grave location maps of Spitak (aka St Peter’s) Churchyard and St Peter’s Cemetery. Located in the north of the city, these two cemeteries form one vast graveyard. The Deceased Online database contains registers, which date from 1767, for over 160,000 burials. Besides the registers are the Dues Books. For the earliest dates these cover the date of burial...

Lambeth Cemetery

Records from the London Borough of Lambeth's Lambeth Cemetery in south London are now available to view on www.deceasedonline.com . Lambeth Cemetery , originally known as Tooting Cemetery , is home to a great many species of wildlife, including goldcrests, sparrowhawks, and woodpeckers, and provides the final resting place for over 250,000 people, including many famous music hall Victorians. Lambeth Cemetery The music hall was a popular Victorian brand of theatrical entertainment, and involved songs, comedy, speciality acts, and variety entertainment. One giant figure of music hall was George Wild Galvin, better known as Dan Leno (1860-1904) , who was buried in Lambeth Cemetery. Dan Leno was a leading comedian and musical actor within music hall, and was also well known for his pantomime dame roles. His first solo stage appearance was at nine years old and, as a teen, he became the star of his family's act. By the late 1800s, Dan Leno was one of the highes...

The conventional daughter of one of the 19th century's most notorious couples

Horatia Nelson Ward (29 January 1801- 6 March 1881) Horatia Nelson kneeling before her father's tomb, by William Owen (after 1807), (c) Wikimedia Commons: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14358.html We hope you have found some of your ancestors in the recent releases from Deceased Online . We were interested to find that the latest batch of records from the London Borough of Harrow includes the grave details of Horatia Nelson Ward. Horatia, the illegitimate daughter of Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton, was buried at Paines Lane Cemetery (or the Old Cemetery, Paines Lane), Pinner in Middlesex on 11 March 1881. Burial Register Scan from Deceased Online Horatia had an unconventional start to life, being born at the home of her mother’s husband, Sir William Hamilton, in Piccadilly, London. As both her parents were married to other people, they had their daughter christened as “Horatia Nelson Thompson”, but later adopted her. Neverth...

British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

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