Mt Pleasant Scottish Presbyterian Cemetery

[annejay]

Does anyone know where I would find burials for this church.I believe it no longer exists.my gggrandmother died 1886 in this area and the Scottish Presbyterian Church would have been her home church.
Thanks Annejay.

[MaryA]

I don't know if any of the following are specifically the Scottish Presbyterian but there are Epitaphs for these churches on the Gibsons CD

Presbyterian C of E, Shaw Street
Presbyterian Church, Canning Street
Presbyterian Church, Mount Pleasant

Please give her name if you would like me to check it for you.

[Hilary]

Mount Pleasant has no burial records lodged at the Record Office. I can find no references so far that it had a burial ground.

A possibility would be Low Hill Cemetery weich opened in 1825 as a cemetery for Non Conformists. It closed in 1898. Their burial records can be found on www.lan-opc.org.uk.

By 1886 there were a number of municipal Cemeteries and she may well have been buried in one of them.

[annejay]

Thankyou both for your replies.Her name is Barbara Sullivan Rooney b1823 d1886.
Annejay

[MaryA]

Sorry nothing in the Gibsons.

What was the address on the death certificate? perhaps we can suggest the nearest other place.

[Katie]

There is a John Sullivan Rooney aged 3 years buried 1863 buried in Toxteth Park Church of England Section
No Barbara Sullivan Rooney
http://www.toxtethparkcemetery.co.uk/db ... &section=R

[annejay]

John Sullivan Rooney was her son.The address she died at is 3 Bittern StreetShe was attended to by her niece who lived atTiber Street.Her daughter Janet emigrated to NZ 1877.
Anne

[Tina]

1861 looks like Rehoboth Terr Tockie Park
2 house: John bn Ire 40 mariner, Barbara 38 Janet Barbara 3 John Sullivan 10 mnths all bn Lpool.
1871 Janet B 13 servant Kirkdale, Brewster?? St
Barbary as spelt wid visitor 47 upholsterer.

[Tina]

Little John Sullivan was born 17.2.1860, wasn't baptised until 14.1.1863 at St Peter's.
s/o John & Barbara of Everton

[annejay]

I have just received John Sullivan Rooney's death cert and he died of small pox,certified.Nobody else seems to have died of any sort of disease.Was it a common death?
Annejay

[dickiesam]

I have just received John Sullivan Rooney's death cert and he died of small pox,certified.Nobody else seems to have died of any sort of disease.Was it a common death?
Annejay

Because Liverpool was a major seaport smallpox outbreaks occurred relatively frequently with the disease being 'imported' by a carrier. There would not be a single isolated case. Cases would occur in small 'clusters' with the 'common denominator', the initial carrier, at the centre. If it was not recognised early it would develop into an epidemic.

See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article ... figure/F1/ for the timeline on the 1902 epidemic, and note the constant small number of background cases in the months before the disease was declared an epidemic. Given the poor sanitation conditions etc, smallpox, like scarlet fever and diphtheria, was always around.

[annejay]

Thanks for that information.His father was a merchant seaman whose death occured before 1870 and after John's death in 1863.Have yet to locate it.
Annejay

[dickiesam]

Thanks for that information.His father was a merchant seaman whose death occured before 1870 and after John's death in 1863.Have yet to locate it.
Annejay

Edited to remove misleading post in connection with deaths at sea.

[annejay]

His fathers surname was Rooney.Will contact you off line later
Annejay