I just received a copy of the death notice from the NY Municipal Archives for my ancestor Robert McGuire, who died in 1854. He was an Irish Catholic who was born in Ireland. The book has a category, following, cause of death for "Cemetery". It has "Williamsburg" listed for him (and several others). I have googled it and have only found a reference to a Methodist Cemetery in Williamsburg. Can anyone tell me what the Williamsburg cemetery would have been.

Google Old Methodist Burial Ground Brooklyn. Bodies buried there were moved to another cemetery and the old cemetery was built over with houses. Try Find a Grave. Kelly On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Deb Woolley <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just received a copy of the death notice from the NY Municipal Archives > for my ancestor Robert McGuire, who died in 1854. He was an Irish Catholic > who was born in Ireland. The book has a category, following, cause of > death > for "Cemetery". It has "Williamsburg" listed for him (and several > others). > I have googled it and have only found a reference to a Methodist Cemetery > in > Williamsburg. Can anyone tell me what the Williamsburg cemetery would have > been. > > ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== > Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website. Also, > check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Deb, I googled 'Catholic cemetery Williamsburg Brooklyn ny' and got this most interesting result for Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, opened 1841. http://www.mhtbrooklyn.org/en_cemetery.htm This related website has the history of this parish-- http://www.mhtbrooklyn.org/  Hope your ancestor is there. Let us know. Virginia   From: Deb Woolley <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2014 7:14 PM Subject: [NY-IRISH] Williamsburg I just received a copy of the death notice from the NY Municipal Archives for my ancestor Robert McGuire, who died in 1854.  He was an Irish Catholic who was born in Ireland.  The book has a category, following, cause of death for "Cemetery".  It has "Williamsburg"  listed for him (and several others). I have googled it and have only found a reference to a Methodist Cemetery in Williamsburg.  Can anyone tell me what the Williamsburg cemetery would have been. ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website.  Also, check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry:  http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message