Confirmed and Likely Burials at Reilly Cemetery

 

Church records begin long after initial settlement, there are a number of years with no records which may indicate their loss, and a number of records were completely illegible. Some spellings are unique to a given record or writer and it is inevitable that I will have made some errors in transcription. PR and MR refer to Presbyterian and Methodist records and the numbers I have assigned to discrete burial record transcriptions for ease of reference.

Combined Methodist and Presbyterian Records of Burials at Reilly Cemetery

1853 Sarah Moor (MR 3)

1853 George Johnston Sr (MR 4)

1860 Margaret Brown McNair (MR14)

1865 Henry Nesbitt (PR 6)

1865 Donald Wood/Gant (?) (PR 9)

1866 Margaret McGee (m. James Strothers) (PR11)

1875 Catharine Mitchel (m. Wm Kennedy) (PR 49)

1876 Elizabeth Moore (m. Peter McLeod) (PR 50)

1876 Martha Henderson (m. James Somerville) (PR 51)

1882 Robert Reilly (PR 63)

1882 Elizabeth Florence Fairbairn (PR 68)

1882 Margaret Ann Mitchell (PR 69)

1883 William Thompson (MR 33)

1883 James Thompson (MR36)

1883 Archibald Fairbairn (PR 74)

1884 Fanny Woodland (m. Richard Woodland) (MR 43)

1884 (5?) Richard Thomson (MR 47)

1885 Letitia Johnston (m. Wm Johnston) (MR 46)

1885 Elizabeth Rice (m. Samuel Mitchell) (PR88)

1885 Thomas Wallace (PR 90)

1886 Ann Shouldice (m. James Shouldice) (MR 58) (headstone at RUC)

1886 Samuel Mitchell (PR 99)

1886 Andrew Armstrong (PR 100)

1887 Madelane Brown (m. Wm Mahon) (MR 59)

1887 George Johnston (MR 60) (headstone at RUC)

1887 Ann Pritchard Maclaren (m.Revd Alex MacLaren) (PR 107)

1887 Wm Hiram Riley (PR 110)

1888 Mary Agnes Mitchell (PR 116)

1888 Maria O’Hara (m. Alex Usher) (PR 118)

1889 John Anderson (m Jane McMonigle) (PR 129)

1889 Edward Albert Rielly (MR 63)

1889 Catherine Barber Shannon (MR 67)

1889 Robert Shannon (MR 68)

1889 Francis Magee (M. George Shannon) (MR 69)

1889 Albert Emerson Wallace (PR 125)

1890 Wm Mahon (MR 73)

1890 Francis Johnston (MR 74)

1890 Thomas Rielly (MR 75)

1890 Margaret Christina Wallace (PR 134)

1892 Jane Patterson (m. Thomas Kennedy) (PR 144)

1892 Sarah Ann Johnston (PR 151)

1895 Margaret Mitchell (m. Robt Shouldice) (PR 165)

1895 Adam Kennedy (PR 169)

1895 Isabella McKenna (m. Thomas McKenna) (MR 96)

1895 James Shouldice (MR 97)

1895 Mary Ann Thompson (MR 98)

1895 Maggie Armitage (MR 99)

1896 William H. Chilcott (MR 100)

1897 George Foster Johnston (MR 101)

1897 Mrs Samuel Chilcott (MR 103)

1897 Arthur Anderson (PR 186)

1897 Samuel O’Hara (m. Matilda Riley) (PR 189)

1897 Wm McMonigle (m. Lavinia Nelson) (PR 197)

1898 George P. McKortel (MR 105)

1898 Mrs Robert Carr (Cass?) (MR 109)

Total 55 people buried at Reilly Cemetery according to the combined records of the Methodist charge and Presbyterian diocese giving actual place of burial. The records contain many more whose place of burial is not specified and these are not included on this list.

There are no Methodist or Presbyterian records for the following people named on headstones that are or were located at Reilly Cemetery

1864 James Shouldice, aged 78 years (Headstone at RUC)

1864 Sarah Mitchell, wife of John Mahon, aged 82 years

1867 Wm Hindson Bennett, son of W. & M Bennett, aged 2 year, 4 mos

1874 Francis Cook, wife of Robert Nesbitt, aged 68 years

1875 Jane Mahon, wife of John Riley, aged 68 years

1876 Catherine Alice, daughter of J. & S Woods, 1 year, 6 months

1877 Alexander Usher, husband of Elizabeth Courtney, aged 74

1877 Elizabeth Courtney, wife if Alexander Usher, aged 73

1877 Jane Amanda Riley, daughter of G & E Riley, aged 2 years, 6 months

1878 Mary Reilly, wife of David Woods, aged 40 years

1880, 1882 Isobel and Jessie, daughters of Andrew and Elizabeth Hamilton

1881 Anne Dale, wife of Samuel Kennedy, aged 41 years

1886 James Woods, aged 60

1888 John Shouldice, aged 58 years (headstone at RUC)

1894 Wm Andrew Shannon, son of William and Sarah Jane Shannon, aged 17 years (headstone at RUC)

1896 David T.  Woods, aged 28 years

1899 David Woods, aged 70 years

1899 Sarah Reilly, wife of James Woods, aged 70 years

Undated Two infant children of Henry & Ann Mitchell

There is at Reilly Cemetery a headstone for William Mitchell (1869, aged 64 years) however the church record (MR 24) records his place of burial as at his farm.

People Likely Buried at Reilly Cemetery

These entries do not specify a place of burial but were resident in Masham or have spouses/relatives buried in Masham. There is no guarantee they are at Reilly Cemetery

1857  Daniel McDonald (MR 11)

1861  James Woods (MR 16)

1866  John Graham (PR 12)

1867  Jane Wallace (PR 15)

1867  Foster Johnston (PR 16)

1868  William Lambert (PR 19)

James Lambert

David Lambert

Mary Lambert

Alexander Lambert

George Lambert

Peter Lambert

James Gundy

1869  James Nelson (PR 21)

1870  Rebecca McCorkell (PR26)

1872  Ann Chilcott (MR 19)

1872  William Kennedy (m. Catherin Mitchel) (PR 38)

1876  Jessie Ann Edward (PR 53)

No date  Coraline Baxter (PR 58)

1879  Mary Gertrude Kennedy (MR 23)

1881  John Arthur Mitchell (MR 26)

1882  Catherine Johnston (MR32)

1883  Samuel Gibson (PR 75)

1883  Alexander E. (Usher?) (MR 35)

1883  Richard Woodland (MR 38)

1884  Robert Harbison (MR 40)

1884  Elizabeth Ellend (MR 42)

1893  Mary Francis Johnston (MR 89)

1893  Edward Joseph Dalmagio (Dulmage?) (m. Cordela C. May) (MR 91)

1894  Josephine White Shannon (MR 94)

1899 George Join(?) Shannon (MR 114)

1899  Jane Rielly (MR 115)

Irwins Buried in Masham but where in Masham??

The Irwin family had a small burial plot on their land but it is unknown how many are buried there. The following listings say the interred are in Masham but do not specify the Irwin family burial ground.

1881 James Arthur Irwin (PR 59)

1892 Frederick William Irwin (PR 148)

1896 Elizabeth Graham (m. James Irwin) (PR 180) (stone at Irwin Cemetery, updated 24/12/2015)

The Lost Ones

For these entries there is no place of residence or burial given. I have chosen to not guess at a burial location but I do feel that they deserve remembrance as much as anyone else

1853  Rugglis Allen (MR 1)

1869  Hannah Parker Abbot (MR 17)

1870  Jane Heney (PR 28)

1872  William Edward Fraser (MR 18)

1872  William Fairbairn, Sr (PR 35)

1873  Marguerite Rachel Roy (PR 24)

1874  Cunningham Ardies (PR 45)

1885  Margaret Edith Murdock (MR 44)

POST 1900 Burials at Masham/Reilly Cemetery

The land for Rupert Union Cemetery was apparently donated by the Johnston family around 1900 however this does not mean that burials began there immediately. In the burial records I do not find a reference to burials at Rupert Union Cemetery until 1911. Therefore I am recording here those that had they been buried pre 1900 I would have assumed by the same criteria used in the above lists that the person was interred in Reilly Cemetery.

1900  Lavinia Nelson (m Wm. McMonigle, interred at Reilly Cemetery) (PR 220)

1900  John Thompson (MR122)

1901 Mathilda Reilly (m. Samuel O’Hara) (PR 226)

1901  Duncan McDonald (PR226)

1902  Hugh Hyndman (m. Mary McGinley) (PR 233)

1902  James Irwin (M. Elizabeth Graham) (PR 235)

1903  Daniel McDonald (m. Mary Fairbairn) (PR 243)

1905  Robert Nesbitt (m. Mary Ann Graham) (PR 253)

1905  Joseph Spallin (m. Catherine Stanly) (PR 255)

1905  Alexander Wilkie MacDonald (PR 256)

1905  Jessie Nesbitt (m. Isaac Rice) (PR 259)

1906 James Claude Nesbitt (son of Geo Nesbitt) (PR 263)

1906 Duncan McDonald (m. Frances A. Johnston) (PR 264)

1907  Jessie F. McCorkel (MR 151)

1907  Cara F. McCorkell (MR 152)

1907  George O’Hara (MR 153)

1907 Elizabeth Johnston (m. George Reilly) (MR 155)

1908  William Shannon (MR 156)

1908  Mary Jane Johnston (m William Reilly) (MR 157)

1908 James Chilcott (MR 161)

1909 Augustus Neville Wallace (PR 272)

1910  John McFadden (MR 162)

1910  George Thompson (MR 165)

Minister Mark Styan buried a number of parishioners at Reilly Cemetery and he also records the 1911 burial of Hiram Stevenson at the Union Cemetery. This is the first reference to the Union Cemetery in the Methodist records. There are no mentions of the Union Cemetery in the Presbyterian records until 1916.

POST 1900 Likely Burials at Masham/Reilly Cemetery

A number of these are listed here because the minister who buried them neglected to list place of residence or where they were buried but they have spouses/relatives buried at Reilly Cemetery. The exceptions might be the Pritchards as I do not know when the Pritchard Cemetery closed. 

1900  Curry Reilley (MR 121)

1901  Harriet McFadden (MR 125)

1901  William Stevenson (MR 126)

1902  Robert Shouldice (MR 130)

1902  Infant son Shouldice (MR 132)

1902  William Reilly (MR 133)

1903  Mary Jane Johnston (m George Johnston) (MR 134)

1904  Hugh McFadden (MR 136)

1905  Mary Wilson (m John Shouldice) (MR 138)

1905  Sarah Jane Graham (m. Kennedy) (MR 139)

1905  Mary Eliza Usher (m. John Wood) (MR 140)

1905  Susannah Elvira Pritchard (m James Brown) (MR 141)

1905  Walter Brown (MR 142)

1906  Samuel Chilcott (MR 143)

1906  Thomas Pritchard (MR 144)

1906  Elisabeth Reilly (m John Reilly) (MR 145)

1906  Andrew McCortal/McCorkell (MR 146)

1906 Crawford McCorkell (MR 147)

1906  Mabel McCorkell (MR 148)