5th April 1833: Dundee Perth & Courier Advertiser, lead pipe found by sextons. Please click here
18th December 1835: Advert for tenders for contracts for the New Howff. Please click here
29th April 1836: Story regarding the layout of the New Howff. Please click here
10th March 1837: Superintendent-ship of the Burying Ground. Mr Scott appointed and in addition, to act as superintendent of Public
Works, at a salary of £100.
24th March 1837: Some discussion took place relative to the
continuance of the practice of burying great numbers of bodies in "pits"
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31st March 1837: To permit 3 coffins in one grave to be dug not less than eight feet
deep. Please click here
14th April 1837: Peter Dron. Letter to A.E
27th October 1837: Last week, in taking down the family monument of Mr. A. Peddie, Senr, for the internment of the late Bailie
Peddie, it was found that two large headstones, one of black, and the other of reddish marble, upon which the
inscriptions were even yet in tolerable preservation, had been broken to pieces, and used as under-building for
this monument at the time of erection. This is another instance of the taste of Hospitalmaster Bell, in using a
number of the oldest headstones in the Howff in paving the bottom of the canal formerly in the Meadows, and for
bridge-stones across it.
3rd August 1838: Obscure idlers, since the old burying ground was improved, many respectable females resort to it to visit the
graves of their families and relatives, little expecting, no doubt, to be there assailed with the disgusting intrusions
and idle blackguardism with which grounds are now frequented. &c. &c.
26th July 1839: Funeral stopped on Sunday last. A space was appropriated for the interment in the new ground : partiality prevails
for the old ground.
9th August 1839: On Sunday last the funeral of two children took place. The first coffin was placed in the grave. The ceremony
over, the second arrived. It was discovered that a mistake had been made as to the grave. The second claimed it :
the coffin was dug up ; but by some carelessness or other a grave had not been prepared to receive it, and it had
to lie on the grass till a grave was dug.
17th Jan 1840: The old Ground (Howff) is already overcrowded, and the fees for interring in the New Ground are so heavy. &c
03 March 1858: Story relating to remains being unearthed and the dismissal of
Sextons Please click here
29 March 1858: Howff Again Please click here
22nd June 1869: Ghost seen at Logie Please click here
26 August 1869: Revolting scene at Logie Kirkyard.
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27th August 1869: Story describing the condition of the Logie Cemetery Please click here
October 1869: Story regarding the closure of Logie Cemetery. Please click here
October 1869: Follow up story regarding the closure of Logie Cemetery. Please click here
1870: Sheriffs decision to close the burgh burial grounds. Please click here
3rd September 1881: Article from the Journal describing the
condition of the Howff at that time. Please click here
22nd September 1892: Discovery of ancient stones in the Howff.
Please click here. A follow up to this was printed in The
Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes & Queries, Volume 2 and can be read
here
10th October 1892: Discovery of a third ancient fragment near
the Howff. Please click here. |
