Deceased Online Scottish Launch at Glamis Castle

Angus Council hosted a launch event at Scotland's world famous Glamis Castle in the Autumn to celebrate the inclusion of all their burial records on the Deceased Online website. The event was opened by Provost Ruth Leslie Melville and hosted and presented by TV and radio historian Dr Nick Barratt.

To add some local historical colour to the proceedings, many Angus staff donned period costume and the famous writer and author of Peter Pan, James Matthew Barrie, made a surprise 'personal appearance'! J M Barrie was born in the Angus region and after establishing worldwide fame, went on to live in London. However, he left instructions that on his death in 1937, his body was to be returned to Scotland and he was buried along with many of his family in the beautiful Kirriemuir Cemetery. His burial records including a scan of the burial register, a map giving the exact location of his lair (grave) within the cemetery and a photograph of a family memorial stone are contained on the Deceased Online database.

Speaking at the launch event, Dr Nick Barratt told the audience: "Burial records are often seen as the end of one trail, but in fact they can be the start of another as they frequently reveal so much about generations of a family, opening up new and previously unknown avenues in an ancestral search. So having the records online provides a wonderful new research tool for people trying to unravel their family history".

Angus Council now has nearly 200,000 records available on www.deceasedonline.com. There are burial records from over 70 cemeteries across the region and these go back to 1630 right up to the present day. Maps for all the cemeteries will be added in due course.

Deceased Online will shortly be announcing more regions and councils in Scotland that will be placing their records on the UK's first national database for burial and cremation records.

See also the news item Deceased Online at the Roots Festival.

 

Provost Ruth Leslie Melville, TV historian and researcher Dr Nick Barratt and a youthful looking J M Barrie inspect
some of the nearly 200,000 burial records now available through Deceased Online.

 

Angus Council and Deceased Online team up outside Glamis Castle. Dr Nick Barratt (centre, red tie) hosted the day
while Provost Ruth Leslie Meliville opened the event that celebrated the inclusion of all Angus burial records on
www.deceasedonline.com.