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scaryman2u wrote:In Cardonald Cemetery the Jewish section have their headstones lying down or maybe that is done to thwart the vandals.
RDR wrote:scaryman2u wrote:In Cardonald Cemetery the Jewish section have their headstones lying down or maybe that is done to thwart the vandals.
If you look in the Jewish Cemetery at Glendufhill, all the stones are like that, so maybe it's a tradition?
I know for instance they don't allow flowers on the grave.
minxy wrote:RDR wrote:scaryman2u wrote:In Cardonald Cemetery the Jewish section have their headstones lying down or maybe that is done to thwart the vandals.
If you look in the Jewish Cemetery at Glendufhill, all the stones are like that, so maybe it's a tradition?
I know for instance they don't allow flowers on the grave.
This interested me, so had a quick search and found this..
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/england/article622569.ece
"The Jewish Cemetary opens out on your right. The cemetary is shared between the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue and the West London Synagogue (Reform). Sephardi Jews, of Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic background, have flat gravestones, while Ashkenazi Jews, from Germany and Eastern Europe, have upright stones".
alcon wrote:Can anyone help me here...I'm trying to locate a family grave in Sandymount cemetery where there was never a headstone erected. I initially phoned the council's bereavement services and got told that they only hold the burial records for certain years for Sandymount and recommended I phone The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the west end as they are the ones who have these records. I phoned them but they say they don't have them either. I also tried the Mitchell library who referred me back to the council!
Somebody, somewhere must know where a grave is in that cemetery!!
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