A significant new release from Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) for those with Edinburgh ancestry:
Edinburgh, Scotland, Cemetery Registers, 1771-1935
www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/62334/
Source: Edinburgh Burial Records. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh City Archives.
About Edinburgh, Scotland, Cemetery Registers, 1771-1935
General collection information
This collection consists of registers from Edinburgh, Scotland, cemeteries dated between 1771 and 1935. Individual records include the deceased person's name, other family members, and important dates in their life.
Using this collection
The following information is included in the collection:
Name of deceased
Name of spouse(s)
Names of parents
Birth date
Death date
Burial date
Last residence
Parish and cemetery of burial
Cemetery records can provide a wealth of information about a deceased person's family. Learning the names of spouses and parents may lead to new branches on a family tree and can also lead to their burial records, which may reveal grandparent names.
Cemetery records that include a person's last place of residence and the cemetery where they were interred narrow down the geographic search for other records, such as birth certificates, marriage licenses, and wills.
The following cemeteries are included in the collection, with the year range covered stated:
- Calton, 1841-1887
- Canongate, 1855-1885
- Colinton, 1885-1914
- Comely Bank, 1896-1923
- Dalry, 1846-1906
- East Preston Street, 1820-1872
- Edinburgh and Leith/Rosebank, 1846-1927
- Edinburgh Southern Cemetery-Grange, 1846-1923
- Greyfriars, 1771-1842
- Liberton, 1862-1900
- Morningside, 1878-1935
- North Leith, 1855-1911
- North Merchiston, 1874-1921
- Portobello, 1877-1933
- Restalrig, 1818-1901
- South Leith, 1843-1889
- St. Cuthberts, 1804-1890
- Warriston, 1843-1903
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A warning - I couldn't find my 3G-GF who'd died 29 August 1875 (GROS cert.) and was buried in Warriston (I'd been told). I failed totally to find him on a search for name and death 1875 +/-1. I then search by name and approx year of birth and found him - first entry. When I checked the Ancestry index record, the index for Death date had *no* year (it's at the top of the page!) Hence a search by death date didn't find him. You might expect a search of cemetery registers to look at the burial date - but it clearly ignored it.
ReplyDeleteI think that using the Browse facility on this collection is likely to be problematic. My 3G-GF (buried in Warriston according to the text on the original image) can't be found by doing a browse of Warriston. Such a browse brings up a set of registers that I think are from South Leith Churchyard. To browse Warriston, you need to go and browse "Calton, 1841-1887". I worked this out by (a) looking at what the original printed pages said (except that the presumed South Leith pages don't mention the site!) and (b) using things like Wikipedia to find noted people buried in a given churchyard then looking for them in Ancestry to see where Ancestry thinks they are.
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