Newly added data
increases Deceased Online's Scottish database to nearly 200
cemeteries and burial grounds
The transcripts and photographs have been made available to search online for the first time, as part of the Deceased Online national database of burials and cremations. You can read more about the SMI data on the website here
In a joint project with
Scottish Monumental Inscriptions (SMI) we have uploaded monumental inscriptions together with photographs
(of headstones dating back to 1632) for 13 cemeteries and burial
grounds as indicated below:
SITE NAME
|
EARLIEST READABLE YEAR
|
New Calton Burial Ground, Edinburgh
|
1746
|
Invergarry Cemetery, Highlands
|
1957
|
Cromdale and Advie, Morayshire
|
1768
|
Old Monklands Cemetery, North Lanarkshire
|
1632
|
Biggar Churchyard and Cemetery, South Lanarkshire
|
1700
|
Larkhall, South Lanarkshire
|
1900
|
Lesmahagow Churchyard, South Lanarkshire
|
1622
|
Stonehouse Churchyard, South Lanarkshire
|
1651
|
Stonehouse Old and New Cemeteries, South Lanarkshire
|
1876
|
Strathaven Cemetery, South Lanarkshire
|
1676
|
St Mary's Churchyard, Dunblane, Stirling
|
1833
|
Abercorn Churchyard and Cemetery, West Lothian
|
1662
|
Adambrae Cemetery, West Lothian
|
1932
|
The transcripts and photographs have been made available to search online for the first time, as part of the Deceased Online national database of burials and cremations. You can read more about the SMI data on the website here
In addition, images and
inscriptions of the headstones and other memorials for Kildalton on
the stunningly beautiful isle of Islay in the Inner Hebrides and
Roshven Burial Ground on the Morven Peninsula in Highland, are
now available.
There are around a
hundred names in this new data for Kildalton. Although there are no
burial registers, the details do include photographs as well as
memorial inscriptions. The Kildalton records date back to 1830 but this wonderful cemetery has much older associations and is
of historic national importance.
The parish is believed
to be named after one of the stepsons of the Macdonalds, the family
who ruled the island in the Middle Ages. The power of the MacDonalds
was tempered by John Mclan (or MacLan) of Ardnamurchan who captured John Mor MacDonald (executed 1499) on behalf of the King James IV. John Maclan's
great grandson is buried at Kildalton under a stone bearing an effigy
of him in his armour.
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| Kidalton Cross is one of, if not the best example of a Celtic Cross, in the world. The cross is estimated to have been carved in the second half of the 8th century. |
The SMI collections
dataset now totals around 100 cemeteries, kirkyards and burial
grounds with the oldest records dating back to the 1530s. Deceased
Online also has more comprehensive burial details for 86 cemeteries,
all of which include burial registers and grave details and many also
have cemetery maps. Our records cover most of the old counties of
Scotland and altogether, there are around one and a quarter million
names in our Scottish records.
If
you have Scottish ancestry, do check back over the next few months,
as we shall be doubling the data to almost 400 grave inscriptions and
other records. We’ll keep you posted on this blog, our newsletter,
and on the Facebook and Twitter pages.
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