Edit Glasgow's second Necropolis
Glasgow's Eastern Necropolis was opened in 1847 to cater for the growing population in the east end.
It was the third of the four great burial grounds in the city that were not linked to any church or religious group.
It opened 15 years after the first and most famous necropolis, next to the Cathedral, which was followed by the Southern (1840) in the Gorbals, and the Western in Lambhill (1882).
Sited to the south of the Gallowgate in an area known as Easter Camlachie, the burial ground was built on part of the old Tollcross Estate.
Today it is also called the Janefield Cemetery, derived from the street that borders it to the south.
Janefield itself comes from the name of a country house built there in 1764 by wealthy grocer and Glasgow eccentric Robert McNair. He named the mansion Jeanfield after his wife and business partner Jean Holmes.
Covering just under 25 acres, the Eastern Necropolis is the last resting place for many working-class people who moved to the east end during Glasgow's 19th century industrial boom.
One of its first and best-known memorials is to Alexander Rodger, the Bridgeton poet, songwriter, political satirist and journalist.
Born in Bridgeton in 1784, he died the year before the cemetery opened. A public subscription was raised to erect a monument in his honour.
It was the third of the four great burial grounds in the city that were not linked to any church or religious group.
It opened 15 years after the first and most famous necropolis, next to the Cathedral, which was followed by the Southern (1840) in the Gorbals, and the Western in Lambhill (1882).
Sited to the south of the Gallowgate in an area known as Easter Camlachie, the burial ground was built on part of the old Tollcross Estate.
Today it is also called the Janefield Cemetery, derived from the street that borders it to the south.
Janefield itself comes from the name of a country house built there in 1764 by wealthy grocer and Glasgow eccentric Robert McNair. He named the mansion Jeanfield after his wife and business partner Jean Holmes.
Covering just under 25 acres, the Eastern Necropolis is the last resting place for many working-class people who moved to the east end during Glasgow's 19th century industrial boom.
One of its first and best-known memorials is to Alexander Rodger, the Bridgeton poet, songwriter, political satirist and journalist.
Born in Bridgeton in 1784, he died the year before the cemetery opened. A public subscription was raised to erect a monument in his honour.
I have come across an old Certificate of Burial belonging to my father, James Wotherspoon, who has/had a perpetual right to be buried in Jeanfield in lair 705. The document with its Regulations was signed in 20.1.1902 by the then directors, James Smith and James Waddel. Robert C Wotherspoon. 20.6.2008