by Marian Press Although I live quite close to the Necropolis Cemetery, I had, until recently, never been inside its gates. During the past months, the shut-in phenomenon induced by the COVID-19 lockdown made a walk through the cemetery seem like a good idea. I was astonished to find very […]
Toronto Trust Cemeteries
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Jane E. MacNamara It is about a year, now, since our FamilySearch indexing team completed the Toronto Trust Cemeteries project, making some 368,000 names from the burial registers of four major cemeteries available for free to researchers around the world. As we quickly realized it would, it has become an […]
Fifty-two people are listed on page 183 of the register of Prospect Cemetery in Toronto. Fifty-one of them were buried in Prospect from May 2 to 11, 1935. Their ages ranged from 1-month-old Margaret Mech to 91-year-old Frances Hubble. There were four stillborn babies, but very few infants and children—perhaps […]
by Jane E. MacNamara I’ll admit to getting sidetracked from time to time with an intriguing entry in a burial register—hard to resist digging a little further into some of the stories. But sometimes the information is almost too easy to find. A burial register page for Mount Pleasant Cemetery […]
Thank you to all the volunteers who found time to work on the Toronto Trust Cemeteries indexing project in 2012. Every name indexed is appreciated and it has been gratifying to see part of our efforts available for researchers. In fact, a few grateful researchers are now volunteers on the […]
We’ve had exciting news from our partners in Salt Lake City today (August 29). Another installment of the index we’ve made with the help of our partners at FamilySearch.org will become live and searchable on FamilySearch.org overnight. (It may take a little longer to update the intro page.) The new […]
One of our FamilySearch indexing volunteers, Vera Reed, came across a familiar name while working on the burial registers of Mount Pleasant Cemetery for the Toronto Trust Cemeteries project. Vera writes: Luigi Von Kunits was born in Vienna in 1870 and died in Toronto in October 1931. He is buried […]
By Jane E. MacNamara While arbitrating a page of the Mount Pleasant Cemetery records, today, I came across Captain James K. Harbottle. James Keith Harbottle died on April 1, 1897, age 37 years, 11 months. He was buried in plot C 17 12. Harbottle was the popular master of the […]