http://www.catholiccemeteries.org.au/rookwood/rookwood.html http://rookwoodcemetery.com.au/ Two webpages for Rookwood - Catholics are separate Hayley. Good luck with your research. Don't give up on the newsgroup - we are mostly very nice and helpful people. Vicki Hayley wrote: > Hi All. > > I took a trip to my state library today to research my gggrandparents graves > (John Marshall & Mary Marshall (nee Forsyth). They were buried in a Family > Vault Devonshire Cemetery. After looking up records in the Johnston & > Sainty burial ground register, found 4 others that I did not know were > buried in the vault. (Exhumation Permit was issued to their daughter) 3 > of the 4 I have in my tree. However there is a James McNeil death 1878 of > Wahroonga also listed (no age). This name did not ring any bells so I came > home to research him. But there are no deaths for that year. Did his death > simply not get registered??? > > > > So then I thought I would do a look up at Rookwood. Nothing!!! Not even my > ggggrandparents are listed there but are listed on my Rookwood Cemetery > disc. However no others that were in the Vault are listed on the disc. > Why is this?? (PS also looked up the Rookwood Necropolis site) Is there > another cemetery in Rookwood?? > > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > > > Many thanks > > Hayley

Could this be your man. 2011/1878 MCNEILL JAMES ABRAHAM MARY SYDNEY ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vicki Smith" <vjsmith@alphalink.com.au> Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.australia+nz To: <genanz@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: Help Please - Burial Devonshire Street Cemetery > http://www.catholiccemeteries.org.au/rookwood/rookwood.html > http://rookwoodcemetery.com.au/ > > Two webpages for Rookwood - Catholics are separate Hayley. > Good luck with your research. > Don't give up on the newsgroup - we are mostly very nice and helpful > people. > > Vicki > > Hayley wrote: >> Hi All. >> >> I took a trip to my state library today to research my gggrandparents >> graves >> (John Marshall & Mary Marshall (nee Forsyth). They were buried in a >> Family >> Vault Devonshire Cemetery. After looking up records in the Johnston & >> Sainty burial ground register, found 4 others that I did not know were >> buried in the vault. (Exhumation Permit was issued to their daughter) >> 3 >> of the 4 I have in my tree. However there is a James McNeil death 1878 >> of >> Wahroonga also listed (no age). This name did not ring any bells so I >> came >> home to research him. But there are no deaths for that year. Did his >> death >> simply not get registered??? >> >> >> >> So then I thought I would do a look up at Rookwood. Nothing!!! Not even >> my >> ggggrandparents are listed there but are listed on my Rookwood Cemetery >> disc. However no others that were in the Vault are listed on the disc. >> Why is this?? (PS also looked up the Rookwood Necropolis site) Is there >> another cemetery in Rookwood?? >> >> >> >> Any suggestions would be appreciated. >> >> >> >> Many thanks >> >> Hayley > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENANZ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:27:38 GMT, Vicki Smith <vjsmith@alphalink.com.au> wrote: >http://www.catholiccemeteries.org.au/rookwood/rookwood.html >http://rookwoodcemetery.com.au/ > >Two webpages for Rookwood - Catholics are separate Hayley. >Good luck with your research. >Don't give up on the newsgroup - we are mostly very nice and helpful people. ... and in the same friendly vein I would like to remind you of a 3rd webpage for Rookwood at http://www.rookwoodindependent.com.au/ just in case others may read your post and be mislead. -- Bob