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The Modern Fossil wrote:..there was a book out a few years ago (80’s 90’s) about the city’s grave yards. It hade descriptions of famous and infamous people buried in each cemetery. The one person I was most interested in was Stan Laurels mother who was buried over in some south side cemetery. It actually gave you directions of where to locate each tomb. I'll try me local library…
Pgcc93 wrote:Thanks for the link Schiehallion. It even has has Dolly the Sheep listed
The cemetery harbours the grave of one Pierre
l’Angelier, supposedly murdered in the 1850’s in the Victorian
middle class environment of the Georgian quarter you
glimpsed earlier by arsenic poisoning at the hands of his
former lover Madeleine Smith. The trial was a scandal and
sensation but Madeleine went free, found ‘not proven’ by
Scots Law. She emigrated later to America, taking her secret
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