The Nellfield Cemetery Scandal Aberdeen 1899 / Scotland's History
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
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6 months is far too small of a sentence for this, jeezo. My pharmacy is next door and there’s a few notable graves that I know about, like Queen Victoria’s Royal Photographer George Washington Wilson, but had absolutely no idea about this atrocity
I agree with you. It should've been much longer. I doubt the families felt they got much justice.
And the same thing still happens today. Sad.
Fascinating, I had no idea about this grim story. What an amount of burials in such short time, + all the extras. Only 6months in jail!?
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Thank you for watching and welcome to the channel! I thought six months was very short too.
My mum born 1916 had a thing for searching out family and their graves. She discovered in the 1980's the someone other than her relative was burried in the family plot. As far as I know this was her first visit to Nellfield Cemetery, when I was a small child mum would take me through the graveyard besides the Duthie Park, she'd show me my grandparents grave there was nothing spooky in her interest and like everyone else wished to know where her family came from. The Nellfield Cemetery incident, mum went to the person in charge of the graves. She complained about this imposter in our family grave. Knowing my mum, I could almost imagine her telling the man to dig up the imposter and put them elsewhere!
My Mum and her sister had a family pedigree which listed all those related to us. It was commissioned back in the 1800's and included were not just very detailed family trees naming just about every one married into the family. There are several family tree's as we are familiar with them plus stories about the people were included from interviews with family members. It traces back what would be my Great Uncle x 6 generations, Alexander (Sandy) Kinnarid who was born in Gamrie and ended up in Banff as a herdie a young male tended with looking after cows. on this paticular dat Sandy was tasked to take the cows down to the river Devron to water them. Like many others he was illiterate so he used a stick and would mark a notch with his knife on the stick for each cow he had. This dat he stood in awe watching boats of red coat soldiers coming over the river from McDuff. He missed a soldier that came up behind him, upon seeing 16 notches on the stick he arrested Sandy as a traitor he was taked to the Duke of Cumberland who upon hearing the tale declared sandy a traitor and had him hanged from the nearest tree. This was on April 13/14th 1746 two to three days before the battle at Culloden Moor.
That's shocking. He would've been unable to defend himself against them. So very sad what happened to him. Thanks for all the information regarding Nellfield and Allenvale. I think your mum would've been quite right. Thank you so much for watching the video.
I find it hard to believe that this scandal was the work of one man, it smells of a wider conspiracy as surely he could not have done this for so long without others knowing of it? This may also explain the short sentence, a reward for keeping his mouth shut perhaps? I wonder where else this may have been going on as well?
An excellent video, your first I have seen so I have subscribed looking forward to seeing more.
Thank you so much and welcome! I have a feeling others knew and yes the sentence was very light.
*Hell Above and Below Earth.*
Rot in the Hell of your making, the perpetrators.
Thank you for this shocking revelation. Stay free, S's H. Rab 💔 ☠ 🌠
A very sad state of affairs for sure.
6 months seems to short of a sentence
It should've been much longer.
Many people must have been complicit in this scandal, not least the owners. The accounts of witnesses of goings on were ignored for years. Back handers, brown envelopes must have been rife. Coutts I suspect, had agreed to keep his mouth shut re where the money went on the understanding that the inevitable prison sentence would be lenient.
@neilmutch4100 it's certainly seemed like that to me too. Thank you so much for watching the video.
@@scotlandshistory Thanks for making the video. I did some research too, and read the hand written notes of the court case, as I'm sure you did. Very interesting.
@neilmutch4100 for sure. I was horrified by the whole affair and I really felt it for the families.
I know this cemetery well, it's no bigger than a small dog park. 27,800 is an absolutely crazy number of bodies to be crammed into that tiny area.
It is. You wouldn't believe it held so many. I was really touched by the little hearts for the lost children. Thank you so much for watching.
My wife loves local history , guess where we will be going next week . 👍
Lovely city. Fingers crossed it's nice for you. Thank you so much for watching.
Is it haunted
I guess that depends in whether you believe in ghosts or not.