St Kentigerns Cemetery, Lambhill, Glasgow

21/04/2026

That's section 19 transcribed. In total I took 1,801 photographs. Most of the plots in this section appear to be opened between 1961 & 1967. Still a lot of stones broken, damaged or face down. The database is at 21,945 names. This section has the memorial to babies, briefly known. I will now try to marry up as many of the photos to their plot numbers. Section 18 is next

18/04/2026

Spent early afternoon up at the cemetery assisting a family from Canada find a grave they've been looking for, for some time. Took the opportunity of no rain to take 978 photos of the remainder of section 19. Thats the whole thatsection photographed. Section 18 is next. Chris

09/04/2026

Made it up to the cemetery this afternoon and managed some photographing of Section 19. I only managed 750 photos due to heavy rain showers, but its a start. Chris

11/02/2026

A story of Robert Downie VC who is buried in Section 21 plot 506. of St Kentigerns.

b. 12/01/1894 Glasgow, Scotland. d. 18/04/1968 Glasgow, Scotland. Robert Downie (1894-1968) was born at 611 Springburn Road, Springburn, Glasgow, Lanarkshire on 12th January 1894. His father was Fr…

03/02/2026

That's Section 17 transcribed. From the 2,036 photographs taken I've added the names recorded to the database which now stands at 20,589. Most of the plots in Section 17 appear to have been opened between 1953 and 1955.

Ive made a start on Section 19 but will wait for the next dry day to have a good go at this section.

Chris

28/01/2026

I took advantage of the bright yellow thing in the sky today and photographed the rest of Section 17 this afternoon. I also made a start on section 19. That's 2,041 photos to document this section. I'll transcribe these photos to add to my database, which at present stands at 18,883 names.

During the winter I have been matching up plot numbers from online sources to my own database. I've managed to get good amount of plot numbers for sections 9,10,13,14,15 and 16.

Chris

21/10/2025

Ive been matching up plot numbers against the headstone's I have. It got me looking into the first lair book from 1882 to 1909.

Couple of things. St Kentigern's was originally known as Lochburn Catholic Cemetery, Maryhill.

The second thing is that the internments were from all over Glasgow. The Gorbals, Baillieston, Govan, St Rollox, Dennistoun, Anderston and Plantation.

Then I came across the Mulheron family from Hutchesontown in the Gorbals. This is the rate of death that family suffered.

04/11/1887 Margaret aged 4
23/02/1888 Catherine infancy
27/02/1888 Alice aged 10
27/02/1888 Patrick Infancy
29/02/1888 Agnes aged 9
06/03/1888 Mary aged 12
06/03/1888 Francis aged 3
and
26/07/1889 Mary Clara aged 1

Absolutely tragic

Chris

03/10/2025

Thats Section 15 photographed and transcribed. I took a total of 2100 photos and from that I recorded a further 2,106 names. This section was in a particularly bad state around the middle. Numerous severly vandalised stones. There are quite a few Italian families at the bottom of the hill in this section. I now have approximately 18,800 names. Im also concentrating on plot numbers on the stones and online to pinpoint how the plots are laid.

The plots appeared to be opened around 1948 to 1950.

Section 17 is next.

29/09/2025

Ive transcribed the first 1,000 photos of section 15. Most of the plots so far appear to have been opened in 1948/49. There's now 17,700 names recorded. Ive been matching as many graves as I can to plot numbers recorded in the lair books. This will give me the opportunity to give close locations of plots that don't have headstones. Chris

24/09/2025

Over the last two days Ive managed to photograph the whole of section 15. A total of 2100 photographs to sift through. As mentioned previously section 15 is where Scotland's very first world champion boxer, Benny Lynch lies and his headstone can be seen below. Chris