Hi, I agree that to ask the Superintendent of the Cemetery if they still have original records of burials to include George Watson is a very good idea to find his year of burial. I'm investigating a Gullick family in Mississippi and came across some dates on Find A Grave where the people were definitely Gullick but the accompanying photo of the gravestone bears the name Gullett! As it was for husband and wife perhaps it was a replacement stone but I would have thought it rather a big mistake for the stonemason to have made, or whoever instructed him. I suspect once a mistake has been made the person responsible is unlikely to have said 'never mind I'll inscribe another stone for free'. It is always possible that family members who know the names and dates of the people who have been buried never go back to see the gravestone. As family historians we go and visit the burial places of our ancestors or arrange for a photo to be taken if we are unable to travel. I went to visit the cemetery in Bath, Somerset where my Gullick great-grandparents plus a daughter and her husband had been buried, hoping for a gravestone, but there wasn't one so had to ask for the plots to be pointed out to me. Later I met an elderly family member and mentioned it, he looked rather embarrassed and said next time I visited there would be a gravestone as he had been charged with arranging it about thirty years earlier. So, yes, when I next visited there was a nice stone, approximately where I had been shown, but one date was incorrect according to the certificates I had been given. I didn't mention it, just said I had seen it and appreciated that it had been erected. From Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. E-Mail: merryl.wells@one-name.org GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Theresa Green" <t.green@britglass.co.uk> To: <sog-uk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 12:15 PM Subject: Re: [SOG-UK] SOG-UK Digest, Vol 9, Issue 87 (new query) > Hi > > I've come across an anomaly with regard to the death of an ancestor and > wonder if anyone might have a theory as to solving my problem please? > > My ancestor, George Watson, was buried in Howff Cemetery, Dundee in April > 1847. I have a picture of his gravestone and can confirm it is he from > several other inscriptions on the tombstone. 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. As far as I'm aware, we are not related to Lazarus > (though I haven't gone that far back yet)! I'm really puzzled by this but > can't imagine the family would not have noticed such an error when the > headstone was put up - or equally that the original record is wrong - am I > going mad or can anyone think of an explanation please? Can anyone tell > me what I might find if I order the "Extract" from SP please? (apparently, > there is a 20 day delay due to backlogs, but I'm not sure what it would > tell me). > > Much obliged fellow hunters. > Thank you > Theresa