British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

  This week I continue our summary of what's currently available to help locate ancestors who died in Scotland by listing locations covered on our database from Clackmannanshire, Dundee City, and East Ayrshire. The ruins of Old Dollar Parish Church, Clackmannanshire  Clackmannanshire  Alva Churchyard and Cemetery Dollar Churchyard Pool of Muckart Churchyard Tillicoultry Cemetery, Clackmannanshire Dundee City Dundee Western Cemetery Logie Old Churchyard Roodyards Burial Ground, Broughty Ferry St Aidan's Churchyard, Broughty Ferry St Peter's Churchyards, Invergowrie St Rule's Churchyard, Monifieth East Ayrshire Darvel New Cemetery Darvel Old Cemetery Galston Cemetery Kilmaurs Cemetery Kilmaurs St Maur's Glencairn Parish Church Mauchline Churchyard Muirkirk Cemetery Muirkirk Church Newmilns Cemetery Newmilns Churchyard Sorn Churchyard and Cemetery Photograph by Stephencdickson - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70217233 Have you f...

Thanks to all who contacted us after the Eureka Moments blog posted earlier this month. The personal stories highlighted proved so popular that we decided to reproduce more. In this week's examples, we hear from a New Zealander who found her family in London's Brompton Cemetery, a Briton who had success in another 'Magnificent Seven' cemetery, and an Australian who reconnected with his Scottish roots. Tree growing among gravestones in Brompton Cemetery, West London New Zealander, Vicki Houlbrooke (nee Leach) , was searching in central London burial records for her Westminster ancestor, George Leach . She had a transcript of the headstone, found in a letter from her Grandad's Great Uncle Fred, but there were no clues as to where the grave was located. The transcript read: Sacred to the memory of Mary Maria, Wife of George LEACH, of Vauxhall Bridge Rd, Pimlico, Who departed this life Sept 3, 1856, Aged 66 years. It is finished. Also Mr. George LEACH, Husba...