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    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".
    KiteRunner

    Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh"
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    did the presbyterian,s have there own churchyard?brenda xxx

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      Bren, she wasn't really a Presbyterian, I'm sure. But surely the City Cemetery wasn't a churchyard at all, that's why I'm confused to see it listed as a church burial. If her name wasn't so rare for Ireland I would have assumed it was somebody else and not paid to view it.
      KiteRunner

      Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh"
      (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")

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      • #4
        KiteRunner - Thanks so much for the link!

        I have found the marriage of OH's great-uncle Cecil Herbert Newton to Mary Staunton in 1902! We never knew the name of his wife before.
        Elizabeth
        Research Interests:
        England:Purkis, Stilwell, Quintrell, White (Surrey - Guildford), Jeffcoat, Bond, Alexander, Lamb, Newton (Lincolnshire, Stalybridge, London)
        Scotland:Richardson (Banffshire), Wishart (Kincardineshire), Johnston (Kincardineshire)

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        • #5
          Glad it was useful, Elizabeth.
          Something else strange is that the "church burials" don't seem to be available on the Ulster Historical Foundation website.
          KiteRunner

          Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh"
          (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")

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