Moneyglass graveyard.

I don’t think they are on-line anywhere. However I live beside the graveyard. What name are you looking for?

Thank you Elwyn.

There is a Keyland grave. When you go in first right and down at the end. Unless new paths made. My Mum is there under Quilkin 1955 but trying to figure date of Grandads's death James Keyland.  Also my Mum's sister Mary Cecilia married John Darragh and she passed early 2000s. Don't know if her name on their stone but it was to the left about 4 or 5 maybe rows in.

I found your Keyland grave easily enough. The date of James Keyland’s death is recorded there as 13th November 1948 aged 84. His death certificate is on the GRONI website and gives his age as 83 but neither age might be quite right. Mistakes on gravestones and death certificates are quite common as the information was only as accurate as the informant’s knowledge. Photo attached.

Cecilia is credited on the gravestone as having erected it, but is not named there herself. I didn’t see her grave today but I’ll have another look for it in the next day or so.

Thank you so much Elwyn. That is so good of you to do that. Bonus photo too. Amazing how the ages can be off. Spent years thinking my Granny was 3 years younger than she was. Then doing the research found her registered as born 1885 in about 4 different places. Made sense though as she was 44 when she had her youngest child and not almost 48.

I think Cecilia would be in Darragh's grave. There would be 2 others opened in that plot in the 1990s so don't know if that makes a difference. 

Are you from around that area?

Thanks again Elwyn. 

Eileen,

Photo of your Darragh grave attached. It wasn’t quite where I expected which is why I couldn’t find it the other day.

You ask if I am from around the area. Yes I live in Duneane parish, not too far from Moneyglass chapel. I live about 3 miles from Millquarter where your Darraghs lived.

This is absolutely wonderful.  Thank you so much Elwyn. 

I lived over in Tamnaghmore with Granny and Cecilia.  Then Cecilia got married and I lived with them in Darragh's Hill from 13 to 18 and then went off to Uni. We used to frequent Cargin a lot and my Grandads's siblings and his parents are buried at Cranfield.  Then once we moved to the Hill Moneyglass was our stomping ground or sometimes Ballyscullion. 

I owe you a bouquet if I'm back that way.

Hello,

I am trying to find the burial ground of my Grandfathers grandparents, Robert and Elizabeth (Eliza) Carleton, I would believe in the grave are the following:

Patrick died 17th July 1889 aged 9 months in Millquater townland

Margaret died 13th November 1900 aged 7 days in Millquater townland

Eliza Jane died 5th May 1911 aged 24 years in Millquater townland

Sarah died 17th October 1911 aged 20 years in Kilvillis townland

Felix died 17th February 1924 aged 26 years in 6 Concord Street, Belfast

Mother Elizabeth (Eliza) died 25th May 1925 aged 59 years in 6 Concord Street, Belfast

Father Robert died 3rd September 1932 aged 67 years in Belfast City Hospital.

I could only find an obituary notice which states he is buried in Moneyglass cemetery so would presume that is where the rest of his family are interreed, would be great to see if there is a headstone. 

Thanks,

Stephen

Stephen,

I had a look in Moneyglass graveyard this morning but did not see any Carleton graves. There are inevitably graves that have no marker and others where the gravestone has fallen forward flat or is illegible, so they could well be there but there’s no obvious gravestone. Plenty of folk from Millquarter are buried there, so it’s a logical place for them to be.

I think the gravestones in that graveyard have been transcribed and are now on the Ulster Historical Foundation site. I checked it and there are no Carletons listed for Moneyglass.

Elwyn,

Thank you so much for going out and looking, it was such a kind thing to do. I'll keep searching but given the tough economic times I would doubt there is a headstone.

Many thanks,

Stephen

Stephen,

Yes. I notice he died in the workhouse hospital, so suspect money was tight. Though that said, someone paid for the newspaper notice.