<<snipped>> My ancestor, George Watson, was buried in Howff Cemetery, Dundee in April 1847. ... However, his burial record on Scotland's People (which shows the original record and is not a transcript) says he died in April 1848! I've asked SP if they can check this, but all they did was to look at the previous and following page, which also says 1848. ... Can anyone tell me what I might find if I order the "Extract" from SP please? ... <<snipped>> 1) Looking at what I presume is the photo of the correct stone (1323) on http://www.dundee-howff.info/images/stones/1323.JPG my personal *guess* is that the most reasonable explanation is that the inscription with 1847 is not contemporary with his death but with a later one. The depth of cutting on the letters and their size *suggests* that at the very least the 1847 and 1853 lines were cut at the same time. Although the provision of a full stop at the end of the top line (1847) does suggest otherwise! Whether the lines were cut with the 1857 line, I don't know - gut feeling says there are slight differences in size and certainly depth, but that might be an effect of the letters being further down the stone so viewed differently. Fundamentally - I'm guessing but we have an anomaly, as you say, to explain. 2) Unless I'm very much mistaken, the SP Extract will consist of no more than the image of the line that you've already seen but done on officially embossed paper to make it a legal record. There is no more to be had, after all. 3) Re Carole's suggestion: "have you checked the cemetery burial registers, rather than Civil Registration??" For those unfamiliar with the workings north of the Border, in 1847/48, Civil Registration had not yet started in Scotland and burial registers are all there is. And in many, many places - not even them. Adrian B