This gave me a surprise. Just idly looking up one of my surnames on the Irish Family History Foundation website:
Birth Death Marriage Genealogy Records Ireland - Irish Family History Foundation
one of the matches it found was for my great-grandmother, listed under "Church Burials". I've paid to view the record and it is definitely her (all the info matches what I had already). It even gives cause of death (which I already had from her death cert) and grave owner, fee, and class ("military" - her husband was a soldier).
Very interesting, but she was buried in the Old City Cemetery, Belfast, and I had to contact a department of Belfast City Council when I was originally finding out where she was buried - surely the city cemetery wouldn't count as a church burial? Is it just a mistake in how the website describes this kind of record, do you think? (I see it gives her denomination as "Presbyterian")
Sorry, to avoid confusion, I should add that the actual record on the IFHF site says "City Cemetery".
Birth Death Marriage Genealogy Records Ireland - Irish Family History Foundation
one of the matches it found was for my great-grandmother, listed under "Church Burials". I've paid to view the record and it is definitely her (all the info matches what I had already). It even gives cause of death (which I already had from her death cert) and grave owner, fee, and class ("military" - her husband was a soldier).
Very interesting, but she was buried in the Old City Cemetery, Belfast, and I had to contact a department of Belfast City Council when I was originally finding out where she was buried - surely the city cemetery wouldn't count as a church burial? Is it just a mistake in how the website describes this kind of record, do you think? (I see it gives her denomination as "Presbyterian")
Sorry, to avoid confusion, I should add that the actual record on the IFHF site says "City Cemetery".
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