Your latest blogs about the Cemetery records made me revisit the site and this time I managed to work out how you see everyone buried in one grave. I don't know why I hadn't seen that before!
I was surprised when I looked at the grave of Elizabeth McIlhagga (nee Walker) in Roselawn Cemetery. She was the wife of Andrew McIlhagga who is buried with his parents Robert & Margaret (nee Craig) in Dundonald Cemetery.
Originally when viewing her record I assumed a typing error was made on the recording of the year of her burial as it was 2 years after her death. But all four people in the grave have the same error???
Elizabeth had a sister Margret one year older than her and a brother Thomas 3 years older but nothing indicates a link to them. I can see no link between the names in the graves except their death dates are close and two burial dates recorded indicate they were buried at the same time in lots of two.
I can only think of a couple of possible explanations. Perhaps their bodies were donated to science and this is the procedure. Or their bodies had been relocated due to some reason like landscaping/ renovating of this or another cemetery.
Occupants of grave T 2212, Roselawn Cemetery
Forename
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Surname
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Age
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Date of Death
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Date of Burial
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Cemetery
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Details
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Record Image
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Lizzie Brown
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Archer
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88
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2 July 1975
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1 July 1977
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Sarah
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Cadoo
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74
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31 August 1975
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1 July 1977
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Elizabeth
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Mcilhagga
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67
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18 October 1975
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18 October 1977
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Samuel
|
Smith
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68
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21 October 1975
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18 October 1977
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Do you know of any explanation? It is a mystery to me and although on the peripheral of my research it has me curious.
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