Family History Day

Today is our last full day in Scotland.  We are up early tomorrow to fly to London.  So one reason we came to Glasgow was to do some tracing of. Barb's family. Carol we hope you are reading along like we know Jess is. Barb's Dad was born up around Airdrie, actually he was born in Bellshill which is very close to Airdrie.  So we headed out in the car today, first stop was at Motherwell for the North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre.  We are very new to genealogy so when the lady looked at us she could see that we had no idea where to begin. We knew where her grandparents were buried but that was about it. Such helpful ladies at this heritage centre, they took us to a computer and very quickly with the information we had, brought up the local Death records for the approximate years, and found the government records for her grandfather.

Next we were allowed to view the Bothwellpark Cemetery records, three rather large ledger books where the cemetery administrators wrote the information for every person who was buried here. Look what we found.

 

These are the hand written entries for Barb's Grandfather and Grandmother, Scotch Granddad and Scotch Gran.  Pretty impressive to us.  Now off to the cemetery where we knew they were buried.

A msn who worked there helped us find the burial plot, it took him a while to find it. We didn't know if we would find anything and initially all he pointed out was a grass area where they were buried with no stone or marker.  The area is very old and many stones have fallen.  Then all of a sudden I found it. The gentleman was kind enough to place it back on the gravesite.

Very emotional but we were both extremely pleased to find this. The stone says at the top

 A Token of Respect

To

Frederick William Worton

 

From Andrew Allan and Sons.  New house

There is no mention of his wife but we know from the family that she was cremated a few years later after he passed and was interned in the same plot.