Airth North Churchyard

Airth North Churchyard

Geoff B Bailey

Illus 1: Airth North Churchyard looking north.

Contents:

The New Churchyard The People Resurrectionists Inventory of Stones Index of Names Bibliography

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The New Churchyard

By the end of the 18th century the occupants of Airth Castle had been keen to close the old parish church and graveyard that lay adjacent to their residence for some considerable time. Its closure, it was felt, would allow the public road there to be diverted. It was only in January 1816 that a new site for the church was selected at the north end of Airth and it was noted that the ground was “suitable for a churchyard as it may be dug without hitting rock or water” (National Library of Scotland Ms 10893).

The burial ground was created immediately upon the work of construction of the new parish church beginning in 1817. It took some three years to complete the building which opened in 1820. Graham Stirling of Airth Castle provided some monetary incentives and encouraged the move to the new burial ground by active participation (see family graveyards). The Airth archive contains a list of people to whom lairs were given in the new churchyard at Airth in exchange for those they had in the old churchyard beside the castle. Those marked with an asterisk were known as “strangers,” that is to say people then living outside of the parish. The first entry was for 28 November 1817.

1817 James Adamson 3 lairs 1818 William Drysdale 2 Alexander Carlaw * 2 William Taylor * 2 1819 Allan Gilmour 1 1820 Andrew Nelson 2 James Watt 2 William Buchan 2 James Hunter 2 1821 Alexander Turnbull 2 Joseph Kirkwood * 1 John Neale 2 Janet Allan 4 William Espie 2 1822 James Cumming * 3 Alexander Cumming 4 Andrew Stewart 3 Thomas Hardie 2 Alexander Manuel 3 1823 James Club 2 Alexander Archibald * 2 John Nicholl 2 John Malcolm 7 Malcolm Boyd 3 Rev James Somerville * 1824 Robert Morton/James Watt 3 James Cowan (1822) 1 George Ritchie * 2

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James Penman 2 William Borrowman 2 William Cowan 2 Andrew Hunter (1822) 2 William Neish 2 Alexander McLellan 2 John Miller * 2 1824 James Bell 3 John Dunn 2 Alexander Ballantyne 3 1825 James Brag * 2 Thomas Walker 3 William Cowan 2 John Taylor * (1822) 2 John Fish (1821) 2 Charles McArthur * (1821) 3 1826 John Simpson 2 Widow Henderson (1822) 1 John Gow * (1825) 1 Robert Jaffray (1825) 2

(National Library of Scotland, Ms 10893/264-8)

In many cases the families transferred the old gravestone to the new burial ground, though it is unlikely that the bodies were moved as was the case with the Graham family itself. There are numerous stones dating to before 1817 in the new churchyard, including:

YEAR INVENTORY SURNAME NUMBER 1773 81 1781 101 McCulloch 1793 149 Wall 1794 14 Gilfillan 1794 20 Bruce 1800 25 Kemp 1800 216 Steel 1805 171 Hardie 1809 241 Sharp 1813 230 Hardie

The earliest stone in the churchyard dates to 1713 and is a small thick ovoid shape in the local sandstone (195), typical of that period. It is not surprising to see that it features an anchor with a set of initials set to either side.

Illus 2: Stone 195.

Some stones may also have been re-used by thinning them and inscribing new letters. This seems to have been the

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Airth North Churchyard case with some of the long headstones which stretch across adjacent lairs. They appear to have been flat stones brought from the earlier churchyard and stuck upright along their long sides. Similar sized head stones are found at the Broompark Church in Denny, but there they are of a finer sandstone and are later.

One of the new stones in the new churchyard specifically mentions that Elizabeth Coubrough had died in June 1813 and was buried in the old churchyard (No. 119). When her husband died in July 1836 he too was interred there.

The burial ground at the new church was bounded on the north-east by the main road and here a retaining wall was built along the boundary and spoil from terracing the building was dumped against it to increase the depth of soil for burials. To the south-west there was a steep hill slope leading up to the older road and so this limited the available width of the churchyard. The north-west and south-east boundaries of the churchyard were as they are now, with the area to the south being the more extensive. The ground was laid out in regular rows following the contours of the land and lairs were made available throughout from the very beginning. The stones placed against the road bounding the road naturally had their inscriptions facing inward towards the graveyard, but all of the remainder faced the road, or rather the main access route.

The fresh start meant that the lairs were regularly shaped and a plan allowed their new owners to be easily identified. However, as time went on these plots changed hands, often in informal agreements, and after half a century the situation had become confused. As with the old churchyard, the families with rights to bury only leased the ground from the Heritors and did not own it outright and inevitably disputes arose. A good example of this occurred in 1902 when Mrs Heugh, the widow of James Heugh, Airth, brought a case against the Heritors of the parish. Eight lairs had originally been allotted to the Bauld and Cuthrie families and were acquired by James Heugh (No 151). As a courtesy Heugh allowed Alex Scott, farmer at North Greens, to bury one of his children in the plots. However, Scott then gave permission for Marshall to bury one of his children there. Mrs Heugh asked for the burial to be removed and for the Heritors to reinforce her exclusive right of sepulchre. They refused to do so and the court found that Mrs Heugh could not prove her claim.

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Illus 3: Extract from the 1862 Ordnance Survey Map (National Library of Scotland).

Although the churchyard was only opened in the second decade of the 19th century is was already full by the end of that century. Its overcrowded condition was drawn to the attention of the Heritors and the local authorities as early as 1892 by the minister, Rev Leckie, though the chance of the Heritors doing much about it was unlikely as they knew that responsibility was soon to be transferred to the Eastern District Committee of the County Council. Leckie pointed out that at the beginning of that year two bodies had been interred only two feet below the surface of the ground, and that on representations by him the bodies had been taken out and the graves made deeper. This had not been the first instance of such shallow burials and Leckie stated that complaints had been made of “effluvia in the summer time arising from the churchyard” (Falkirk Herald 14 May 1892, 4).

By then there was no slack in the system and in common with other parishes in Scotland the Heritors resorted to legal means to recover unused lairs. In October 1905 advertisements in newspapers brought to light that there were 43 claims for rights to lairs by people living outside of the parish and these were rejected. At the same time Alexander Black CE Falkirk was asked to examine the ground to the south-west for a proposed extension to the graveyard but he noted that the clayey nature, to the depth of five feet, made it unsuitable. In May the following year the Airth heritors requested the Parish Council to close the churchyard at Airth and to provide a new cemetery.

In April 1926 the Parochial Council was still recommending the closure of the churchyard under the Burial Ground (Scotland) Act, but it was not until February 1948 that an official application was made. By then it had been decided to make the previously rejected extension up the hill to the south-west which, being secular, is a cemetery rather than a churchyard.

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Illus 4: Ordnance Survey Map of 1959 showing the new Cemetery Extension to the south.

At some point, presumably when the graveyard was extended, some of the gravestones from the churchyard were used in the retaining wall on the south side of the road leading up the hill from the mercat cross to the main entrance to the cemetery. Most are fragmentary, but one is complete and reads: “1823/ JH JR.”

Illus 5: Gravestone in the Retaining Wall beside the road leading to the Cemetery.

The People

Airth is a maritime parish and so it is not surprising to see this reflected in the graveyard by the number of people employed in the merchant marine and also by deaths by drowning. Until the mid 18th century ships had been built within 100m of the new church and a large number of vessels were registered at Airth. However, with the increase in the size of ships and the land reclamations from the Forth, trade moved to Grangemouth. The Duncanson family of shipbuilders moved to Dalgrain on the River Carron. Some of the sailors also made the move but many remained and made the short trip to the new port to board their ships. These included a number of captains from notable families.

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Captain James Hutton Shipmaster No. 82 Captain of SS Carron & Kingsdyke, Captain John Hutton killed No. 82 by enemy action January 1918 Captain John Callander No. 86 & 205 Captain John Callander No. 205

Sailors from outside of the parish were often buried in the churchyard if they had the misfortune to die in the vicinity. As late as 30 January 1893 John Sorrier drowned in Kincardine Roads and was buried in Airth Churchyard (Dundee Courier 6 March 1893, 4).

Robert Hutton was drowned in the North Sea in 1882 (No. 91) – and as is usual with such voyages the tombstone does not supply the day of the month as it would not have been known at what stage in the journey the vessel sank. Michael Scobbe drowned at Calcutta in the 1840s (283). It was, however, also common for the young children of the area to fall into water courses during their play and several are noted. No. 95 commemorates John Learmonth who drowned at South Alloa in 1899 aged only three years. Even more tragic was the case of the Cowie family which lost three young sons in separate incidents in 1835, 1837 and 1847 (No. 221).

One of the most famous residents of the graveyard is Peter Gardner who created the internationally renowned pottery at Dunmore. He died on Saturday 1 March 1902 and on the following Wednesday his funeral cortege left the pottery for Airth Churchyard at 2.30pm followed by a small entourage.

The parish was dominated by two landowning families living at Airth Castle and Dunmore House. These large estates required a large workforce and were the bedrock of the rural economy. In 1821 Thomas Graham Stirling of Airth Castle erected a headstone in the churchyard in memory of his Berwickshire-born overseer, James Adamson (No.145), who had died in November 1817 and was therefore amongst the first to be buried at the new site. Almost a century later, in January 1915, Alexander Mitchell, overseer at Airth Castle for 46 years, was also buried in Airth Churchyard.

As the lairs were individually acquired by the local residents themselves there was no separation of the burial ground between these two estates as occurred at Bo’ness for the old barony of Kinneil. Residents of Dunmore can be found scattered throughout the graveyard, as in numbers 13, 16, 26, 54, 111, 231, 238, 239 and 266.

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However, it is noticeable that official burials connected with the Dunmore estate occur to the north of the church – the side on which Dunmore occurs. Again an overseer is to be found. Archibald MacNicoll served for many decades and his stone was paid for in 1828 by the Earl of Dunmore (No. 280). John Taylor, gardener at Dunmore Park for 50 years, had his stone erected by the 5th Earl in 1859 (No. 239). The close relationship between the Murray family of Dunmore and its workforce is seen more poignantly in the adjacent stone where John Taylor’s youngest daughter is buried (No. 238). This stone was “erected by the Countess of Dunmore with whose children Joan Taylor had lived.”

Farmers are well represented in the churchyard and the farms at Dunmore (16), North Greens (151 & 243), Airth Greens (155 & 181), South Greens (260 & 261), Mains of Airth (122 & 184), Halls of Airth (74 & 104), Pocknave (270), Oxgang (220) and Letham (197 & 216) are all mentioned.

The farming families of the parish produced a number of students of divinity, two of whom died at a relatively youthful age – John Steel died in 1800 aged 24 years (No 216) and William Carlaw in 1818 aged 23. By the time of his death Carlaw was also the schoolmaster at Airth. His successor in that post was James McCulloch who served for 35 years until his death in 1853. His pupils and friends raised an obelisk monument to his honour. This is a reflection of the importance of this office in local communities at that time and similar monuments are found in other graveyards of the Falkirk area. Typically the effusive dedication ends in a Latin phrase meaning “much beloved.”

Illus 6: The Obelisk Monument to James McCulloch looking north.

Another wordy tribute can be found on the monument erected by the congregation and friends of Rev John MacGachen in 1843 (No. 1). Like so many of the gravestones it contains a number of spelling errors showing that the schoolmaster’s work did not extend to everyone in the parish. The spelling in the inscriptions is amongst the worst in the Falkirk district and continues as such until the end of the 19th century. It is pretty evident that the sculptor was copying from paper and misreading the text with the result that there is occasionally a jumble of letters that do not even provide a phonetic spelling of the intended word, especially noticeable for surnames. On other occasions the sound of the word is used. For example No 220 which says “in mamorey of there” instead of “in memory of their.” This is not the only case of this particular mistake. On one stone the word “there” has evidently been removed by making an

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Two of the stones feature mason’s tools (149 & 202) laid out in the same way. They have a mell, square and compass, chisel or chisels, lump hammer, level, trowel, gauge and ruler. 149 dates to 1793 and the style of 202 suggests a similar date. They are well executed and it is tempting to suggest that they were cut by the same stonemason for his own family though what the connection was between the Watt and White families is not known.

Illus 7: Left – stone 149 of Thomas Watt; right – stone 220 of Alexander Whyte.

Stone 132 contains what may have been a family joke when John Hunter gives the names of his mother as Janet Orr or Hunter – the use of “or” even in this context is most unusual.

Illus 8: Stone 65 with an accurate and detailed depiction of SS Carron. The stone has fallen and so the contrast between the polished surface and the lighter grey background is no longer sufficient to show the image in a clear light.

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Resurrectionists

In the Stirling Journal of 1 July 1820 the following report was printed:

“Much to the surprise of the residents of the village of Airth, who, from the exposed situation of their church-yard, and its vicinity to the public road, had imagined themselves secure from the visits of the Resurrectionists – an attempt was made on the night of Sunday the 20th ult. or the following morning, to raise the corpse of an old man who had been buried in Airth church-yard on the 13th June, The depredators, while employed at their hallowed task, were scared by the approach of a neighbouring farmer who was coming to the village, accompanied by his dog, to purchase some medicine for a horse that had been taken ill under night. The dog, on passing, ran into the church-yard and commenced barking furiously; and, though repeatedly called off, he would not quit his place. When alarmed by the dog, the Resurrectionists decamped; - and it was not till a day or two afterwards, that some scholars attending the parish school observed nearly one half of the earth had been taken out of the grave and the sods all carefully laid to one side. The circumstance was no sooner known than a number of inhabitants turned out and opened the grave; when they discovered that the lid of the coffin had been broken and the body partly drawn out. It is shrewdly suspected that the Resurrectionists live in Airth; and should they continue their midnight depredations, means are being taken to ensure their detection, when they will have no chance of escaping the punishment they so richly merit.”

It was to counter such actions that a mortsafe society was established in Airth. It purchased a number of cast iron outer coffins which could be used to hold the coffin proper in the ground until the corpses had decayed beyond the point to which they were of any use for the dissection table. The mortsafe was then removed for the next customer to use. One of the mortsafes was made of sheet iron without a base and was on display in the churchyard for over a century. It was photographed there in the late 1950s (RCAHMS 1963, plate 51C) but was subsequently acquired by the National Museum of Scotland and is currently on display in the museum in Chambers Street, Edinburgh

Airth North Churchyard SMR 743 NS 887 876

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Inventory of Stones

The graveyard was surveyed by Mitchell and Mitchell as part of their East Stirlingshire volume in the 1970s, when 195 stones were recorded. Although the stated intention was to record the gravestones dating to before 1850, many later ones were noted on that occasion.

The format of this inventory follows that of previous surveys. 1. Each stone is given a unique number that also appears on the plan: 2. The type of stone, whether flat or head: 3. If a headstone, then the shape of the top of the stone (see volume 10, p.17 for the key): 4. The dimension of the stone starting with the height, then the width and thickness: 5. The inscription: 6. The reference number (in square brackets) used by Mitchell & Mitchell.

Of the 298 stones recorded only 26 were made of imported granite. Granite was commonly used as it represented long life due to its durability. This is a lower proportion than we might expect for a churchyard in use until 1950 and may be accounted for by the relatively long distance from the railway station to the village which would have discouraged transport. There are 8 stones which are of limestone or use it as an inset panel. This white material represented purity and was expensive. In most of the examples it occurs as thin panels or small plaques. As is normal for the Falkirk district the earlier stones are of local sandstone and are often coarse grained. A finer grained bedded sandstone was imported in large numbers, which is unfortunate as it tends to laminate with the result that the entire face sheers off, taking with it the inscription. This emphasises the importance of recording the stones now.

The tops of the gravestones were generally designed to shed water and so triangular-shaped pediments are not unusual. The most common shape, however, was so-called “S-arch” of which there are 73 examples, many of which are hooded. By way of comparison there are 24 stones with pointed arch tops. The sandstone grave markers were evidently carved by local masons and as well as containing the same spelling errors they share many elements of their designs with one another. One of the most common overall layouts was an S-arched pediment supported on shallow square pilasters.

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Illus 9 : Plan

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1. Rectangular plaque in triangular pedimented wall setting, 1.04 x 0.56 x 0.18m. SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/ THE REVD JOHN MACGACHEN. MINISTER OF AIRTH/ AFTER A LONG ILLNESS WHICH WAS BORNE. WITH EXAMPLARY PATIENCE/ HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 13TH MAY/ 1843,/ IN THE 60TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. AND 34TH OF HIS MINISTRY/ DEEPLY REGRETTED/ BY ALL HIS FRIENDS AND IN PARTICULAR/ BY HIS CONGREGATION/ WHO IN TOKEN OF THE RESPECT/ FOR THE PIETY AND WORTH OF HIS CHARACTER/ AND OF THEIR GRATEFUL RECOLLECTION/ OF HIS FICELITY AND TENDERNESS/ AS A PASTOR/ ERECTED THIS MEMORIAL/ AS A TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION/ TO HIS VIRTUES. [1]

2. Head, tri-lobed pediment, 1.20 x 0.56 x 0.18m. In Memory/ OF HUGH SPENCE/ AND OF/ JAMES MICHAEL/ WHO DIED 25TH JULY 1874/ AGED 4- YEARS./ ANNIE MICHAEL/ DIED 14TH MARCH 1878/ AGED 21 YEARS.

3. Head, scalloped pediment, 1.80 x 0.63 x 0.22m. (a) IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE/ OF/ JAMES CLAS GLEN/ INSPR. OF POOR FOR THE PARISHES OF/ AIRTH AND POLMONT WHO/ DIED AT POLMONT 8TH AUGT/ 1873 AGED 64 YEARS/ AND OF HELEN COWAN HIS WIFE/ WHO DIED AT POLMONT 3RD AUGT./ 1873 AGED 64 YEARS/ BOTH ARE INTERRED HERE/ ALSO OF JANE JEANIE DAUGHTER. OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED AT/ GREENOCK 16TH OCTR 1874. AGED 31 YEARS/ INTERRED IN GREENOCK CEMETERY. (b) IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE ARE/ MANY MANSION. ST JOHN Ch 14th V 2nd [on plinth] (c) J. WALKER/ AIRTH [in corner of plinth].

4. Head, S-arch, 1.10 x 0.85 x 0.09m. 1848/ SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ LILLIAS SMITH/ WHO DIED THE 7th OF APRIL 1844/ AGED 31 YEARS/ ALSO HER MOTHER/ HELEN BALD/ WHO DIED THE 19th JANUARY 1847/ AGED 57 YEARS/ JESSIE SMITH DIED 17TH AUGUST/ 1892 AGED 70 YEARS. [155]

5. Head, pointed arch, 1.55 x 0.61 x 022m. (a) SACRED/ TO/ THE MEMORY OF/ DAVID HARDIE,/ BELLS DYKE,/ DIED 5TH NOVEMBER 1872,/ AGED 66 YEARS. (b) J & J BAIRD/ FALKIRK [on plinth].

6. Head, pointed arch, 1.85 x 0.74 x 0.16m. ERECTED/ BY/ GEORGE KIDD,/ IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE/ MARGARET MILLAR,/ WHO DIED 6TH JANUARY 1880,/ THE ABOVE/ GEORGE KIDD/ DIED 19TH MAY 1890, AGED 65 YEARS./ JANET BALD HEUGH/ WIFE OF THE ABOVE/ GEORGE KIDD/ WHO DIED AT MOSS NEUCK/ FEBRUARY 5TH 1--- AGED 72 YEARS.

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7. Head, scalloped pediment, 1.65 x 0.67 x 0.13m. MARGARET MCTAGGART/ IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE/ OF HER HUSBAND/ ROBERT H WALKER./ DIED 5TH APRIL 1855, AGED 67 YEARS/ CHRISTINA WALKER,/ DIED 10TH MAY 1857, AGED 31 YEARS/ ELLIOT G. WALKER,/ DIED 14TH SEP. 1857, AGED 39 YEARS/ MARGARET WALKER,/ DIED 5TH MARCH 1858, AGED 35 YEARS/ THOMAS G WALKER./ DIED 4TH NOVR. 1868 AGED 35 YEARS/ / IN LIFE BELOVED IN DEATH LAMENTED.

8. Head, scalloped pediment, 1.85 x 0.63 x 0.19m. ERECTED/ BY/ SARAH A REDFERN./ IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE/ OF HER HUSBAND/ JAMES WALKER./ WHO DIED 5TH MARCH 1881,/ AGED 65 YEARS. SARAH A REDFERN,/ DIED 30TH JUNE 1907./ / IN LIFE BELOVED IN DEATH LAMENTED.

9. Head, triangular, 0.85 x 0.52 x 0.12m. 1896/ ERECTED BY/ ROBERT HUTTON/ IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER & MOTHER/ JOHN HUTTON & JANE WHITE/ ALSO HIS/ BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

10. Head, stepped pointed arch, 1.50 x 0.63 x 0.18m. (a) 1884. ERECTED BY/ HENRY CHALMERS/ & JANET HUTTON/ IN MEMORY OF THEIR SON/ HENRY/ WHO DIED 3RD APRIL 1884./ AGED 14 YEARS. (b) “HE SLEEPS IN JESUS FREED FROM PAIN,/ HIS LOSS THOUGH GREAT TO HIM WAS GAIN,/ BELOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM HERE,/ AND TO HIS PARENTS, NONE MORE DEAR.” [on plinth].

11. Head, triangle with corner turrets, ? ? ?m 1856 [in pediment]. (b) ERECTED/ BY/ -AS ------/ ------/ ------/ Happy ------/ Weep not ------/ ------the weeper.

12. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 0.65 x 0.71 x 0.09m. ERECTED/ BY/ HELEN CUMMING/ In Memory of her Husband/ MICHAEL TOWERS. Who died 27th March/ 1849 Aged 46/ YEARS/ [154]

13. Head, S-arch, 1.35 x 0.43 x 0.08m. (a) In/ LOVING MEMORY OF/ JAMES GILFILLAN/ BELOVED HUSBAND OF/ JANE NICOL/ DIED 20TH FEBRUARY 1927/ AGED 72 YEARS/ ALSO THE ABOVE/ JANE GILFILLAN/ DIED AT DUNMORE/ 25TH JULY 1936/ AGED 77 YEARS/ / AT REST. (B) ABERCROMBIE/ CAMELON [on plinth]. [153]

14. Head, ogee & cavetto, 0.70 x 0.59 x 0.15m. 1794/ ALEX GiLFiLAN/ ELiSBATh WILLIA/MSON. [152]

15. Head, S-arch, 0.85 x 0.84 x 0.08m. 1848/ GEORGE RUSSELL/ DIED 30th MARCH 1848/ AGED 21 YEARS/ ALSO/ JANE RUSSELL/ DIED 25TH DECR 1848/ AGED 23 YEARS. [151]

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16. Head, S-arch, 1.50 x 0.61 x 0.16m. SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ THOMAS RUSSELL &/ ANNE MACKIE,/ DUNMORE FARM, AIRTH,/ STIRLINGSHIRE,/ WHO WERE MARRIED 9TH DECEMBER 1808/ AND THEIR FAMILY/ JAMES BORN 1810, WILLIAM 1812/ THOMAS 1813,/ JESSIE 4TH MARCH 1816/ JOHN 1818, PETER 1820/ JANE 1824, GEORGE 1826./ DAVID 1830, LOGAN 1837./ / “Rock of Ages.” [150]

17. Head, S-arch, 0.85 x 0.86 x 0.10m. 1855/ ERECTED/ IN MEMORY OF/ THOMAS RUSSELL/ WHO DIED 31ST OCTOBER/ 1853/ ALSO/ IN MEMORY OF/ ANN MACKIE/ HIS WIFE WHO DIED 22ND NOVEMBER/ 1860. [149]

18. Head, S-arch, 1.10 x 0.76 x 0.14m. 1845/ ERECTED BY/ ANDREW HUTTON./ AND/ MARGARET JEFFREY. [148]

19. Head, pointed arch, 1.50 x 0.61 x 0.03m. ERECTED/ BY/ ALEXANDER POTTER/ IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE/ AGNES TAYLOR,/ DIED 31T MAY 1872,/ AGED 60 YEARS/ ALEXANDER POTTER,/ DIED 17TH MAY 1879,/ AGED 67 YEARS.

20. Head, cavetto & ogee, 0.90 x 0.73 x 0.11m. 1794/ ROBERT BRUCE/ MARGRET REBERTSO/n. [147]

21. Head, arch with corner turrets, 0.80 x 1.03 x 0.13m. ERECTED/ BY/ JOHN GRAHAM/ In MEMORY of/ MARY LIDDELL his wife/ who died the 14th Feby 1840/ Also his Daughter MARY/ who died the 21st Feby/ 1840. [146]

22. Head, low arch, 0.40 x 0.27 x 0.11m. J.W.

23. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 0.75 x 0.75 x 0.06m. (a) ERECTED BY [on pediment]. (b) JAMES CHALMERS, AND ANN HUTTON,/ IN MEMORY OF/ THEIR CHILDREN/ TWO SONS WHO DIED IN INFANCY/ ELIZABETH, DIED 18TH MARCH 1877,/ AGED 2 YEARS 10 MONTHS,/ JEMEMIA, DIED 24TH MARCH 1877,/ AGED 7 MONTHS./ / WAITING.

24. Head, square and ogee, 1.00 x 0.69 x 0.09m. ------/ ------/ ------/ ASLEEP IN JESUS.

25. Head, S-arch, 0.80 x 0.78 x 0.13m. 1800/ William Kemp/ Mary Williamfon. [144]

26. Head, triangle, 1.75 x 0.62 x 0.15m. SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ JOHN KEMP WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE/ AT DUNMORE, 3RD APRIL 1887/ AGED 64 YEARS./ AND JAMES HIS SON/ WHO DIED 23RD NOVEMBER 1858/ AGED 5 MONTHS/ ALSO ROBERT,/ DIED 10TH MAY

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1902,/ AGED 40 YEARS./ CATHERINE TOSHACK, HIS WIFE/ DIED 27TH JULY 1904, AGED 77 YEARS. [142]

27. Plaque, shield, 0.45 x 0.42 x 0.02m. IN MEMORY OF/ PTE JOHN KEMP/ 8TH SEAFORTH HIGHLRS/ KILLED IN FRANCE 28TH MARCH 1918/ AGED 27 YEARS/ / THY WILL BE DONE. [143]

28. Head, stepped triangle, 1.20 x 0.64 x 0.13m. 1880/ SACRED TO THE/ MEMORY OF MY MOTHER/ MARGARET MCARA/ WHO DIED 25TH MARCH 1848/ AGED 53 YEARS/ ALSO/ MY FATHER JOHN DICK/ WHO DIED 23RD MARCH 1879/ AGED 87 YEARS/ ERECTED BY THEIR SON/ JAMES DICK. [141]

29. Head, low arch & cavetto, 0.80 x 0.74 x 0.13m. ERECTED/ BY/ ROBERT MCLAY AND MARY DICKSON/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF THEIR SON/ ROBERT MCLAY/ WHO DIED 10TH OCTR 1897/ AGED 1 YEAR AND 4 MONTH.

30. Head, triangle, 0.60 x 0.60 x 0.10m. 1816/ ROBERT MCARTHUR/ JANET CHRISTIE. [140]

31. Head, square, 0.55 x 0.50 x 0.09m. 1853/ GEORGE FISH/ AND/ HELEN MIRK. [139]

32. Obelisk, 4.40 x 0.76 x 0.76m. (a) ERECTED 1863 BY/ JOHN DUNCANSON/ IN MEMORY OF HIS MOTHER/ ANN BOWIE,/ WHO DIED 4TH JULY 1847,/ IN HER 45TH YEAR./ AND HIS FATHER/ JOHN DUNCANSON/ WHO DIED 21ST OCTR 1871,/ IN HIS 74TH YEAR [on south face]. (b) ROBERT WALKER. BELOVED HUSBAND OF/ MARY DUNCANSON DIED 3RD SEPTER/ 1897 AGED 58 YEARS/ ALSO THEIR SON ROBERT/ WHO DEAD 29TH SEPTER 1904/ AGED 24 YEARS/ ALSO THEIR DAUGHTER MARGARET/ WHO DIED 31ST MAY 1905/ AGED 20 YEARS/ ALSO THE ABOVE MARY DUNCANSON/ WHO DIED 12TH NOVEMBER 1927, AGED 84 YEARS. [on west face]. (c) IN MEMORY OF/ MARY DUNCANSON GRANT,/ DAUGHTER OF CHARLES GRANT,/ WHO DIED 20TH JULYT 1920, AGED 16 YEARS/ ALSO OF ELIZABETH WALKER, WIFE OF THE/ ABOVE NAMED CHARLES GRANT/ WHO DIED 5TH MARCH 1927, AGED 47 YEARS./ ALSO OF JACK, SON OF THE ABOVE NAMED,/ CHARLES AND ELIZABETH GRANT/ WHO DIED 9TH MARCH 1924, AGED 21 YEARS. [on east face]. [145]

33. Head, S-arch, 0.80 x 0.88 x 0.09m. 1866/ ERECTED/ BY/ GEORGE A OVEREND AND ELIZABETH RUSSELL/ IN MEMORY OF THEIR TWO CHILDREN/ THOMAS OVEREND/ DIED 30TH MARCH 1857/ SHERRIFF OVEREND/ THEIR DAUGHTER/ DIED 23D APRIL 1864/ AGED 19 YEARS.

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34. Head, rustic branches, 1.30 x 0.60 x 0.10m. ERECTED BY/ THOMAS FISH/ IN LOVING MEMORY/ OF HIS BELOVED WIFE/ MARYANN HAY GEMMELL/ WHO DIED 10TH NOVEMBER 1924/ AGED 70 YEARS./ ALSO OF THE ABOVE/ THOMAS FISH/ WHO DIED 21ST JANUARY 1932/ AGED 76 YEARS./ ALSO HIS FATHER AND MOTHER/ GEORGE FISH & HELEN MIRK/ BOTH INTERRED HERE.

35. Head, tri-lobed, 0.50 x 0.62 x 0.14m. IH MC. [135]

36. Head, square, 0.50 x 0.30 x 0.10m. IH. [134]

37. Head, triangular pediment, 1.05 x 0.56 x 0.14m. ERECTED BY/ DANIEL MCDONALD/ IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE/ JANET STEEL/ DIED 13TH JUNE 1882.

38. Head,. S-arch pediment, 0.90 x 0.76 x 0.11m. 1823/ Erected/ By/ George Ritchie/ and/ Charlote Stewart/ In Memory of there/ Son David Who Died/ in Infancy. [136]

39. Head, triangle, 1.50 x 0.62 x 0.15m. ERECTED BY/ ROBERT & CHRISTINA CUMMING/ IN MEMORY OF THEIR SON/ ROBERT,/ BORN 12TH DEC. 1883, DIED 3RD DEC. 1887./ ALSO THEIR DAUGHTER/ CHRISTINA,/ BORN 25TH DEC. 1885, DIED 18TH DEC. 1887./ ALSO THEIR SON/ ADAM/ KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE/ 24TH MAY 191- AGED 24 YEARS/ THE ABOVE/ CHRISTINA ---ANSON/ DIED 17TH JAN------AGED 70/ THE ABOVE/ ROBERT CUMMING/ DIED 8TH JAN 19— AGED 87./ THEIR DAUGHTER MARY/ DIED 26TH FEB. 1968, AGED 88.

40. Head, tri-lobed & eared, 0.55 x 0.67 x 0.13m. 1843/ERECTED/ BY/ JOHN CHRISTIE/ and/ ELIZABETH BLACK. [137]

41. Head, central arch, 1.40 x 0.60 x 0.18m. ERECTED/ BY/ PETER MITCHELL/ AND/ MARY DUNCAN/ IN MEMORY OF THEIR DAUGHTER/ ISABELLA/ WHO DIED 24TH DEC. 1864,/ AGED 2½ YEARS./ ALSO THEIR SON// JOHN/ WHO DIED 16TH SEP. 18--/ AGED 13 YEARS/ ALSO THEIR GRANDDAUGHTER/ MARY DUNCAN MCKENZIE YOUNG/ WHO DIED 10 FEB 1905 AGED 4 YEARS/ THE ABOVE PETER MITCHELL/ DIED 5TH JAN 1907 AGED 80 YEARS/ ALSO HIS WIFE/ MARY DUNCAN/ DIED 28TH JAN 1909 AGED 77 YEARS. [138]

42. Head, rectangular, 0.25 x 0.55 x 0.15m. CALLANDER.

43. Head, S-arch, 0.85 x 0.83 x 0.10m. 1845/ ERECTED/ BY/ WILLIAM DUNCANSON/ AND/ JEAN TAYLOR. [133]

44. Head, square, 0.15 x 0.20 x 0.10m. I B [along top].

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45. Head, low arch, 0.40 x 0.29 x 0.15m. 1846/ JB MT. [129]

46. Head, S-arch, 0.75 x 0.63 x 0.11m. 1858/ ERECTED/ BY/ JOHN HEUGH/ AND/ JANET DOBBIE/ In Memory Of Their Son/ WILLIAM HEUGH/ Who Died 8 Oct 1856/ AGED 2 YEARS.

47. Head, low arch, 0.50 x 0.74 x 0.13m. SACRED/ To the memory of/ ROBERT SMITH/ Who Died 14th June 1825/ Aged 36 Years. [128]

48. Head, square with rounded corners, 0.15 x 0.35 x 0.11m. IS.IS.

49. Head, S-arch, 0.45 x 0.53 x 0.11m. 1817/ ------/ AND/ ELIZABETH MIRK/ ------/ ------AND/ JAMES AIIEBALD/ WHO DIED/ THE 1 DECEMBER 1816. [Sibbald – 127]

50. Head, tri-lobed & cavetto,0.80 x 0.67 x 0.12m. 1821/ JOHN MCLUCKIE/ MARY CHAMBERS. [126]

51. Head, arched pediment, 1.85 x 0.74 x 0.15m. (a) ERECTED/ IN/ MEMORY OF/ WILLIAM BENNET/ WHO DIED 25TH APRIL, 1892/ AGED 84 YEARS/ HIS WIFE/ MARGARET MCLUCKIE/ DIED 30TH OCTR 1890, AGED 85 YEARS/ THEIR TWIN DAUGHTERS/ JANET AND MARY, DIED IN 1833/ THEIR SON/ WILLIAM BENNET/ DIED 11TH FEBY 1875, AGED 36 YEARS/ THEIR GRANDCHILDREN/ WILLIAM KIRKWOOD, DIED 1863/ WILLIAM B. KIRKWOOD, DIED 1873/ ALEXANDER KIRKWOOD/ DIED 21ST MAR. 1892, AGED 56 YEARS/ MAGGIE KIRKWOOD/ DIED 17TH SEPT. 1921, AGED 57 YEARS/ MARGARET BENNET KIRKWOOD. DIED 2ND JUNE 1924, AGED 84 YEARS. (b) R. GRAY GLASGOW [on plinth]. [125]

52. Head, cavetto with central arch, 0.45 x 0.65 x 0.06m. 1865/ WILLIAM AITKEN/ ISABELLA THOMSON.

53. Head, cavetto, 0.90 x 0.76 x 0.10m. 1868/ ERECTED/BY/ JANE ARTHUR/ IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND/ JOHN JOHNSTON/ WHO DIED 3D JANUARY 1867/ AGED 68 YEARS/ ALSO TWO OF THEIR DAUGHTERS/ ANN JOHNSTON DIED 1854/ AGED 10 YEARS 6 MONTHS/ JANE ARTHUR JOHNSTON DIED/ 1864 AGED 22 YEARS 5 MONTHS. [124]

54. Head, S-arch, 1.20 x 0.73 x 0.10m. 1832/ CATHERINE LAWSON/ ALSO SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ ELIZABETH WALES/ WHO DIED AT/ DUNMORE VILLAGE/ 3RD JANY 1887/ AGED 30 YEARS. [123]

55. Head, S-arch pediment, 0.65 x 0.73 x 0.08m. 18828/ JOHN COWAN/ and/ ANN GRAHAM. [122]

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56. Head, ogee, 0.70 x 0.74 x 0.10m. 1829/ JAMES DUNCAN/ &/ ISABELLA CALLANDER. [121]

57. Head, ogee, 0.60 x 0.68 x 0.12m. 1828/ JAMES DUNCAN/ &/ JEAN WATSON. [120]

58. Head, square, 0.60 x 1.19 x 0.12m. (a) 3 Lairs [along top] (b) 1831/ WM WATSON/ AGNES SMITH. [119]

59. Head, S-arch, 0.85 x 0.76 x 0.13m. 1845/ ERECTED/ BY/ MURRAY DUNN/ In Memory of/ His Father/ JOHN DUNN/ who died 21st Augt Aged 57/ Years/ and of his Mother/ MARY STEIN/ who died 6th Novr 1826 Aged 36/ Years. [118]

60. Head, S-arch, 0.50 x 0.70 x 0.08m. ERECTED/ BY HUGH KEMP/ AND/ JANET LEISHMAN/ IN MEMORY OF THEIR SON JOHN KEMP/ WHO DIED/ 21ST MAY 1866 AGED 24 YEARS/ ALSO/ HIS FATHER HUGH KEMP WHO DIED/ 28TH MAY 1867 AGED 58 YEARS/ ALSO/ --- [132]

61. Head, arched with finial, 2.45 x 0.66 x 0.15m. (a) Erected/ by/ WALTER STEWART/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ ANDREW STEWART,/ HIS FATHER/ WHO DIED AT AUCHINTYRE/ 16TH NOV. 1858, AGED 61 YEARS./ CHRISTIAN TAGGET,/ HIS MOTHER/ WHO DIED AT FALKIRK/ 13TH MAY 1891. AGED 91 YEARS./ ROBERT STEWART,/ HIS BROTHER/ WHO DIED AT AUCHINTYRE/ 14TH APRIL 1865, AGED 24 YEARS. (b) “BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD.” [on upper plinth]. (c) W. ROBERTSON & SON/ FALKIRK [on lower plinth].

62. Head, unknown fragment. JAME- ----/ IN MEMORY --/ HELEN ----/ WHO DI------.

63. Head, S-arch hood, 0.90 x 0.86 x 0.12m. ERECTED/ BY/ ROBERT TURNBULL/ IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER/ ALEXANDER TURNBULL/ WHO DIED 23 OCTOBER 1853/ AGED 46 YEARS/ ALSO/ CATHERINE GRAHAM/ HIS MOTHER WHO DIED 1- JULY 1861/ AGED 71 YEARS. [131]

64. Head, S-arch, 0.45 x 0.70 x 0.12m. 1846/ ERECTED/ BY/ ALEXANDER TURNBULL/ AND/ CEATREN GRAHAM. [130]

65. Head, pointed arch, 1.90 x 0.73 x 0.18m. ERECTED BY/ PETER & HELEN GEHRCKE/ IN MEMORY OF/ THEIR BELOVED CHILDREN/ ADOLPH HENRY/ WHO DIED 23RD APRIL 1879 AGED 6 YEARS/ ALSO THEIR INFANT SON WALTER,/ AND ALSO IN MEMORY OF/ HER DEAR MOTHER ELIZABETH KEMP/ WHO DIED 5TH FEB 1875, AGED 57 YEARS.

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66. Head, pointed arch, 1.15 x 0.62 x 0.15m. ERECTED/ BY/ JAMES PRIMROSE/ IN MEMORY OF HIS MOTHER/ ANN MCLAY/ WHO DIED 24TH OCT 1842,/ AGED 24 YEARS/ ALSO HIS FATHER/ ALEXR PRIMROSE/ WHO DIED 14TH DEC. 1879/ AGED 65 YEARS. [106]

67. Head, central arched with rounded shoulders, 1.35 x 0.57 x 0.13m. (a) IN/ LOVING MEMORY/ OF/ THOMAS BAMFORD/ WHO FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS/ 8TH SEPTEMBER 1890/ / “BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE/ LORD FROM HENCEFORTH YEA SEITH THE/ SPIRIT/ THAT THEY MAY REST FROM THEIR/ LABOURS AND THEIR WORKS DO FOLLOW THEM” (b) R. GRAY GLASGOW [on plinth].

68. Head, obelisk, 1.60 x 0.40 x 0.40m. (a) IN/ MEMORY/ OF/ NATH. MARTIN/ WHO DIED/ 26TH JULY 1871,/ ALSO HIS SPOUSE/ C. TURNBULL,/ WHO DIED/ 23RD NOVR 1875,/ ALSO THEIR SON/ NATHANIEL,/ WHO DIED 5TH JUNE 1870,/ ALSO THEIR DAUGHTER/ MARION,/ WHO DIED 26TH APRIL 1878. (b) J THOMSON/ ALLOA [on plinth]. [107]

69. Head, S-arch, 0.60 x 0.70 x 0.13m. 1835/ NATHANIEL MARTIN/ And/ CATHARINE TURNBULL. [108]

70. Head, triangle with ears, 0.60 x 0.70 x 0.10m. ERECTED/ By/ HENRY TAYLOR/ IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER/ ALEXANDER TAYLOR/ WHO DIED 25th JULY/ 1851. [109]

71. Head, S-arch, 0.65 x 0.71 x 0.11m. 1826/ JOHN ALLAN/ &/ MARGARET WILSON. [110]

72. Head, S-arch, 0.85 x 0.63 x 0.09m. 1867/ ERECTED BY/ WILLIAM WRIGHT/ IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE/ MARY COWIE WHO DIED/ JANY 6TH 1865 AGED 53 YEARS/ WILLIAM WRIGHT DIED/ 17TH MAY 1894 AGED 80 YEARS./ / HERE ALSO LIES INTERED/ MARGARET WRIGHT, DIED JULY/ 20TH 1827 AGED 2 YEARS./ PETER WRIGHT, DIED AUGUST/ 18TH 1828 AGED 9 YEARS/ HELEN MIRK DIED MARCH 18TH/ 1842 AGED 51 YEARS. [111]

73. Head, S-arch hood, 1.25 x 0.57 x 0.16m. IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE/ OF/ MARY, BELOVED SISTER OF/ REV. JOHN MCLAREN/ FREE CHURCH AIRTH,/ WHO DIED AT AIRTH ON 31ST MARCH 1881./ / HER FAITH IS SIGHT/ HER HOPE IS PURE DELIGHT/ THE SHADOW VEIL OF TIME IS RENT IN TWAIN/ TO HER TO LIVE WAS CHRIST TO DIE IN VAIN.

74. Head, pointed arch, 1.90 x 0.60 x 0.17m. SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ JANE PATE/ BELOVED WIFE OF/ WILLIAM BOW,/ DIED AT HALLS OF AIRTH,/ 13TH SEPTEMBER 1890,/ AGED 66 YEARS./ WILLIAM

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BOW/ OF/ HALLS OF AIRTH/ DIED/ 26TH JUNE 1896/ AGED 96 YEARS/ ALSO JANE DAUGHTER OF ABOVE/ NAMED WILLIAM AND JANE BOW/ WHO DIED AT NETHERBY, AIRTH/ 28TH OCTOBER, 1923,/ AGED 70 YEARS.

75. Head, triangle with rounded corners, 1.45 x 0.59 x 0.14m. ERECTED/ BY/ WILLIAM DUNCANSON/ AND/ MARY H SMITH, HIS WIFE,/ IN MEMORY OF/ ADAM SMITH, HER FATHER/ ENGINEER, WHO DIED IN GLASGOW/ 3RD OCTR 1831, AGED 36 YEARS./ MARY HUTTON, HER MOTHER/ DIED 10TH MARCH 1875/ AGED 73 YEARS. [112]

76. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 0.60 x 0.75 x 0.13m. ERECTED/ BY/ CHARLES COWAN/ THEIR ELDEST SON/ To the Memory of/ WILLIAM COWAN/ Who Died 23 June 1839/ And JEAN LAIRD = His wife/ Died July 2 The Same Year/ ISABELLA LAIRD/ Sister of JEAN LAIRD/ Died 7TH August 1884. [113]

77. Head, arch & cavetto, 0.70 x 0.77 x 0.10m. 1839/ JAMES BUCHANAN/ AND/ MARGARET BOYD. [114]

78. Head, arch, 1.60 x 0.53 x 0.14m. (a) ADAM ARMSTRONG/ IN/ LOVING MEMORY/ OF/ MARGARET TOLE, HIS WIFE/ WHO DIED 11TH FEBRUARY 1914/ AGED 54 YEARS./ ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG/ HIS MOTHER/ WHO DIED 29TH APRIL 1902/ AGED 69 YEARS./ ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED/ ADAM ARMSTRONG/ WHO DIED 18TH DECEMBER 1922/ AGED 65 YEARS. (b) J & C MOSSMAN/ GLASGOW. [115]

79. Head, square with cut corners, 0.60 x 0.77 x 0.13m. (a) Stone holds 1 --- [along top]. (b) ERECTED/ BY/ ROBERT ARMSTRONG/ In Memory of/ His Mother/ ELIZABETH MCDONALD/ Who died 11th July 1828/ Aged 54 Years. [116]

80. Head, low arch, 0.85 x 0.38 x 0.08m. S/3538 PRIVATE/ J. COLLINS/ ARG. & SUTH’D HIGHRS./ 25TH OCTOBER 1915 AGED 21/ / UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS/ AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY.

81. Head, square, 0.85 x 0.53 x 0.11m. 1773/ WN IA. [117]

82. Head, triangle, 1.60 x 0.63 x 0.13m. (a) SS CARRON [on prow of drawing of ship]. (b) ERECTED BY/ ANNIE FINLAYSON/ IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND/ JAMES HUTTON, SHIPMASTER,/ WHO DIED 20TH APRIL 1903, AGED 65 YEARS/ THE ABOVE/ ANNIE FINLAYSON/ WHO DIED 18TH SEPTEMBER 1911, AGED 72 YEARS./ AND THEIR CHILDREN/ GEORGE, ANNIE, AND MAGGIE./ WHO DIED IN INFANCY/ CAPT JOHN HUTTON/ OF S.S. KINGSDYKE,/ SON OF THE LATE/ CAPT JAMES HUTTON,/ LOST AT SEA BY ENEMY ACTION 17TH JANUARY 1918 AGED 48 YEARS. (c) L. COCHRANE/ ALLOA.

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83. Head, S-arch pediment, 0.65 x 0.76 x 0.11m. 1832/ ROBERT CLARK/ ELIZABETH ROSS. [105]

84. Head, S-arch pediment, 0.90 x 0.79 x 0.15m. ERECTED/ 1826/ BY/ ROBERT HARROWER/ AND/ CATHERINE CURRIE/ TO THE MEMORY/ OF THEIR DAUGHTER/ MARGARET. [104]

85. Head, arch with corner turrets, 0.50 x 1.04 x 0.08m. 1839/ ERECTED/ BY/ ALEXANDER TAYLOR/ AND/ JEMIMA TAYLOR. [103]

86. Head, pointed arch, 1.80 x 0.58 x 0.14m. IN/ MEMORY/ OF/ CAPT JOHN CALLANDER/ WHO DIED/ 9TH APRIL 1895,/ AGED 47 YEARS,/ ALSO OF HIS MOTHER/ AGNES CALLANDER/ WHO DIED 17TH JANUARY 1911/ AGED 87 YEARS./ AND HIS WIFE/ MARY CALLANDER/ WHO DIED 23RD APRIL 1940/ AGED 77 YEARS. (b) WATCH THEREFORE FOR YE KNOW WHAT/ HOUR YOUR LORD DOTH COME. MATTHEW 24.22 [on upper plinth] (c) ROBERTS/ FALKIRK [on lower plinth].

87. Head, tri-lobed, 0.75 x 0.69 x 0.11m. 1829/ Erected by/ JOHN GARDNER/ IN MEMORY OF/ JANET GARDNER WHO/ DIED MAY 27TH 1828. [102]

88. Head, arched hood & finial, 0.85 x 0.58 x 0.19m. (a) SACRED/ TO/ THE MEMORY OF/ JOHN GARDNER,/ WHO DIED 23D DECR 1866,/ AGED 68 YEARS/ HIS ELDEST DAUGHTER JANET,/ WHO DIED 13TH SEPR 1838,/ AGED 8 YEARS./ HELEN CATHIE,/ HIS WIFE WHO DIED/ 17TH AUGUST 1878,/ AGED 78 YEARS./ ALSO/ HIS DAUGHTER MARGARET/ WHO DIED 17TH FEBRUARY 1885/ ALSO/ HIS SON PETER WHO DIED/ AT DUNMORE POTTERY/ 1ST MARCH 1902/ AGED 66 YEARS/ ALSO HIS DAUGHTER/ ANNE GARDNER WHO DIED/ 8TH NOVR 1915 AGED 75 YEARS. (b) Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. [on plinth]. [101]

89. Head, S-arch, 0.65 x 0.84 x 0.10m. 1848/ ERECTED/ BY/ WILLIAM MCKAY/ IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE/ CHRISTINA JONES/ WHO DIED 24TH JUNE 1848/ AGED 21 YEARS. [100]

90. Head, plinth only.

91. Head, pointed arch, 1.45 x 0.58 x 0.17m. (a) ERECTED BY/ ROBERT C. HUTTON/ AND/ ANN H PATERSON/ HIS WIFE/ IN MEMORY OF/ THEIR SON/ WHO WAS INTERRED IN GREENOCK/ ALSO/ ANNIE JANE BAXTER,/ THEIR DAUGHTER/ DIED 20TH DECEMBER 1876,/ AGED 1 MONTH/ JEANIE CLARK HUTTON,/ DIED 18TH OCTOBER 1880,/ AGED 7 MONTHS./ THE ABOVE ROBERT C. HUTTON,/ DROWNED IN THE NORTH SEA/ DECEMBER 1882 AGED 40 YEARS./ ANN H MERCER,/

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HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW/ DIED 18TH FEBY 1884, AGED 56 YEARS./ ALSO THE ABOVE/ ANN H PATERSON/ WHO DIED 5TH JULY 1914/ AGED 66 YEARS/ “Suffer little children/ to come unto me.” (b) J ROBERTSON/ ALLOA [on plinth].

92. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 0.95 x 0.94 x 0.12m. 1849/ ERECTED/ BY/ JOHN BALLANTINE,/ FARMER POWBRIDGE CARNOCK/ IN MEMORY OF/ HIS WIFE/ ANN BOWIE/ WHO DIED 12TH JULY 1846/ AGED 39 YEARS. [99]

93. Head, triangular hood, 0.60 x 0.53 x 0.13m. 1854/ THOMAS ALLAN/ and/ MARGARET GARDNER. [98]

94. Head, broken, 0.65+ x 0.77 x 0.10m. ------/ WHO DIED 29TH NOVEMBER 1879./ AGED 74 YEARS./ ROBERT CUMMING/ DIED 4TH JUNE 1888 AGED 84 YEARS/ / IN LIFE BELOVED IN DEATH LAMENTED.

95. Head, tri-lobed & cavetto, 1.30 x 0.66 x 0.10m. (a) ERECTED BY/ JOHN LEARMONTH/ AND/ CATHERINE ANN HUME/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF THEIR SON/ JOHN LEARMONTH/ WHO WAS ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED/ AT SOUTH ALLOA 24TH JUNE 1899 IN HIS 3RD YEAR/ ALSO THE ABOVE/ CATHERINE ANN HUME/ WHO DIED 13TH MARCH 1916/ AGED 48 YEARS./ DAVID SNEDDEN INFANT SON OF/ JOHN & MARY ANN LEARMONTH/ DIED SEPT. 1917/ ALSO THE ABOVE/ JOHN LEARMONTH/ DIED 22ND JULY 1933, AGED 59 YEARS. (b) ASLEEP IN JESUS [ on plinth].

96. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 1.10 x 0.79 x 0.08m. 1869/ ERECTED/ BY/ GEORGE BROWN AND JANET SCOBBIE/ IN MEMORY OF THEIR THREE CHILDREN/ WHO DIED IN INFANCY/ JANET SCOBBIE/ DIED 29TH MARCH 1879,/ AGED 44 YEARS/ ALSO THEIR SON/ JAMES SCOBBIE BROWN/ WHO DIED 11TH JULY 1908/ AGED 40 YEARS. [89]

97. Head, ogee & cavetto, 0.55 x 0.57 x 0.11m. 1823/ JOHN MCLUCKIE/ AGNES SAMUL. [90]

98. Head, S-arch, 1.15 x 0.84 x 0.13m. ERECTED/ BY/ JAMES DUNN AND HELEN WILSON,/ ON MEMORY OF THEIR DAUGHTER/ HELEN DUNN,/ WHO DIED THE 9TH DECEMBER 1861,/ AGED 2 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS/ JEMIMA DUNN/ WHO DIED THE 30TH MARCH 1878,/ AGED 4 YEARS AND 7 MONTHS/ DEVIND WILSON,/ WHO DIED THE 2ND APRIL 1878,/ AGED 7 MONTHS/ JEANIE MINRO DUNN/ WHO DIED THE 20TH APRIL 1880./ AGED 22 YEARS/ JOHN DUNN/WHO DIED THE 6TH JULY 1882,/ AGED 15 YEARS./ / NOT LOST BUT GONE BEFORE.

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99. Head, triangle with flat shoulders, 0/60 x 0/64 x 0.11m. 1858/ ERECTED/ BY/ JAMES MACLAY/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ ANN BELL HIS WIFE/ WHO DIED 15th JANRY/ 1857.

100. Head, S-arch, 0.85 x 0.81 x 0.12m. 1839/ ERECTED/ BY/ JOHN ROY/ AND JANET MCKAY.

101. Head, ogee & cavetto, 0.90 x 0.69 x 0.12m. (a) 1 lairs/ 1781/ JHC [along top]. (b) ERECTED/ BY/ JAMES MCCULLOCH PAROCHIAL SCHOOL/ MASTER of AIRTH in Memory of his Brother/ PETER MCCULLOCH Who Died/ 7th March 1831/ SACRED/ To the Memory of/ JAMES MCCULLOCH SCHOOL MASTER/ of Airth for 35 years/ who died the 24th May 185-/ He rests from his labours and his works do/ follow him/ Done by his sisters/ JANET and CHRISTIAN MCCULLOCH BROWN. [92]

102. Head, obelisk, 3.30 x 0.58 x 0.58m. SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ JAMES MCCULLOCH/ FOR THIRTY EIGHT YEARS SCHOOLMASTER/ OF THIS PARISH/ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE/ 24TH MAY 1853/ AGED 56 YEARS/ / TO MARK THEIR APPRECIATION/ OF HIS ATTAINMENTS AS A SCHOLAR/ DISTINCTION AS A TEACHER/ AND WORTH AS AN HONEST MAN/ THIS SIMPLE STONE HAS BEEN ERECTED/ BY HIS PUPILS AND FRIENDS/ / AMATUS NASTIS MULTUM. [93]

103. Head, tri-lobed finials, 2.05 x 0.67 x 0.20m. Fallen face down.

104. Head, arch & cavetto, 0.70 x 0.77 x 0.07m. Laminated. [79 – 1840, William Espie farmer Halls of Airth died 20 October 1839]

105. Head, S-arch pediment, 1.00 x 0.76 x 0.11m. 1828/ ERECTED/ BY/ ARCHD MALCOLM/ In Memory of/ His father/ JOHN MALCOLM/ Who Died Novr 4th 1827/ aged 81 Years. [80]

106. Head, triangle, 1.00 x 0.44 x 0.08m. (a) ERECTED BY/ JOHN SHARP/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ HIS WIFE/ AGNES GEMMELL/ DIED 16TH FEBRUARY 1906/ AGED 46 YEARS/ AND THEIR FAMILY/ JOHN DIED 15TH SEPTEMBER 1904/ AGED 21 YEARS/ AGNES DIED 9TH JANUARY 1917/ AGED 19 YEARS. (b) PEACE PERFECT PEACE. [on plinth].

107. Head, obelisk, 1.75 x 0.43 x 0.43m. SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ TOBERT TURNBULL/ WHOD DIED 12TH JULY 1884/ AGED 57 YEARS/ GRACE WHITE HIS WIFE/ WHO DIED 23RD JANY 1870/ AGED 32 YEARS/ WILLIAM THEIR SON/ WHO DIED 21ST OCT 1874/ AGED 45 YEARS.

108. Head, square, 0.75 x 0.59 x 0.13m. I.M H.F/ D P/ 1819. [95]

109. Head, triangle with finial, 1.90 x 0.68 x 0.20m. ERECTED/ BY/ PETER, GEORGE/ & CORNELIUS/ IN REMEMBRANCE/ OF THEIR

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FATHER/ CORNELIUS HOTCHKIES/ WHO DIED 17TH OCT 1867 AGED 67/ ALSO THEIR MOTHER/ ELIZABETH GILLESPIE/ DIED 8TH NOV 1872 AGED 64/ THEIR TWO SISTERS/ JANE AND AGNES/ DIED IN INFANCY. [96]

110. Head, cavetto & ogee, 0.80 x 0.60 x 0.10m. IN Memory OF/ JOHN TAYLOR/ who died 12 June 1822/ ALSO/ ELEANOR TAYLOR/ His Mother/ who died 29 Nour 1836. [97]

111. Table, 1.66 x 0/80m. JANET WALKER/ Relict of/ William Mackie/ Portioner/ Dunmore. [87]

112. Head, S-arch pediment, 0.95 x 0.80 x 0.12m. SACRED/ To The Memory of/ JANET WALKER/ Who Died 31 Octr 1830/ Aged 71 Years. [88]

113. Head, S-arch, 0.95 x 0.84 x 0.12m. (a) 2 LAIRS [along top] (b) 1832/ ERECTED/ BY/ DAVID HIGGIN/ SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ JANET HIGGIN,/ WIFE OF/ LEWIS POTTER,/ DIED 25TH JUNE 1877/ AGED 75 YEARS./ LEWIS POTTER/ DIED OCT. 13TH 1881/ AGED 80 YEARS. [86]

114. Head, S-arch, 0.80 x 0.70 x 0.08m. 1863/ WILLIAM HIGGINS/ CATHRINE EASTON. [85]

115. Head, square with clipped corners, 1.05 x 0.68 x 0.12m. ERECTED BY/ JAMES HALL IN/ LOVING MEMORY OF MY BELOVED/ DAUGHTER LIZZIE HALL/ WHO DIED 15TH OCTOBER 1896/ AGED 11 YEARS/ ALSO HIS SON/ GEORGE HALL/ WHO DIED 1ST JUNE 1905/ AGED 27 YEARS./ THE ABOVE/ JAMES HALL WHO DIED/ 22ND JANY 1908 AGED 63 YEARS./ ALSO OF HIS WIDOW/ HELEN HARROWER WHO DIED/ 17TH MARCH 1916 AGED 65 YEARS.

116. Head, S-arch, 0.70 x 0.84 x 0.12m. Sacred/ To the Memory of/ PETER BELL/ Who died 11th Decr 1829 Aged 76/ and of/ JANET HIGGINS/ His Spouse who died 16th Aug/ 1824 Aged 65 Years. [84]

117. Head, triangular hood, 0.65 x 0.81 x 0.12m. 1858/ SACRED/ TO/ THE MEMORY OF/ HENRY TOSH/ WHO DIED 13 APRIL 1856/ AGED 48 YEARS.

118. Head, triangle, 0.50 x 0.36 x 0.02m. IN LOVING MEMORY/ OF/ WILLIAM WEIR/ DIED 26 NOV 1950/ AGED 70 YEARS.

119. Head, arch & flat shoulders, 0.90 x 0.74 x 0.10m. This Stone/ erected by ALEXR MANUELL/ to the memory of his Spouse/ ELIZTH COWBROUGH/ who died 3d June/ 1813 aged -8/ years./ A M Died 22d JULY 1836/ Both their remains lie in the old/ Church yard. [83]

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120. Head, S-arch hood, 0.95 x 0.51 x 0.009m. 1866/ In REMEMBRANCE of/ GEORGE MALCOLM/ Who DIED On The 9TH January/ 1849. [82]

121. Head, S-arch, 1.10 x 0.94 x 0.15m. ERECTED/ BY/ MARGARET TOUCH/ In Memory Of Her Beloved Husband/ ARCHIBALD MALCOLM/ Who Departed THIS LIFE On The Ninth March/ 1865/ IN MEMORY OF MARGARET TOUCH HIS SPOUSE/ WHO DIED ON 22ND AGED 92 YEARS. [81]

122. Head, triangular pediment, 0.90 x 0.82 x 0.09m. 1840/ ERECTED/ IN MEMORY OF/ WILLIAM -----/ FARMER/ MAINS OF AIRTH/ ON THE 20th ------/ AGED – YEARS.

123. Head, low triangle, 0.65 x 0.70 x 0.05m. ERECTED BY/ ARCHIBALD MILLER AND MARY HUTTON/ IN MEMORY OF/ JEANIE G MILLER, THEIR DAUGHTER/ WHO DIED 3RD JANUARY 1877/ AGED 3 YEARS 11 MONTHS/ MARY WIFE OF ARCH MILLER/ WHO DIED THE 14TH NOVEMBER 1880/ ALSO THEIR SON ARCHIE LOST AT SEA/ IN THE SHIP DUKE OF/ ABERCORN/ IN THE YEAR 1892 IN HIS 17TH YEAR./ / REMEMBER ME AS YOU PASS BY,/ AS YOU ARE NOW SO ONCE WAS I.

124. Head, triangle, 1.15 x 0.54 x 0.16m. CALLANDER/ ERECTED/ BY THOMAS CALLANDER AND/ ANN WALKER IN MEMORY OF/ THEIR SON THOMAS, WHO/ DIED 31ST JANUARY, 1865,/ AGED 8 MONTHS/ ALSO JANE ELDEST/ DAUGHTER WHO DIED/ MARCH 6TH 1882/ AGED 23 YEARS/ ALSO THE ABOVE/ THOMAS CALLANDER WHO DIED 21ST MARCH 1879 AGED 50 YEARS./ ANN WALKER, HIS WIFE WHO DIED/ 12TH FEB 1908 AGED 72 YEARS.

125. Head, S-arch, 0.75 x 0.65 x 0.10m. January 30th 1830/ JOHN CLUBB/ and/ JEAN MCNELLAN/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ JEAN MCNELLAN WHO DIED/ AT GRANGEMOUTH/ 4TH APRIL 1855 AGED 74 YEARS/ ALSO JOHN CLUBB WHO DIED/ AT GRANGEMOUTH/ 28TH FEBY 1859 AGED 75 YEARS.

126. Head, S-arch, 0.90 x 0.79 x 0.10m. January 30th 1830/ JOHN CLUBB/ and/ JEAN MCNELLAN/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ JANET MURRAY CLUBB WHO DIED/ AT GRANGEMOUTH/ 22ND JULY 1899 AGED 89 YEARS.

127. Head, multi-pointed, 0.80 x 0.64 x 0.12m. 1818/ ALLAN GILMOUR/ and/ MARY BOYD.

128. Head, cavetto & ogee, 0.65 x 0.63 x 0.09m. ERECTED/ BY/ JANET RANKINE/ IN MEMORY OF/ HER HUSBAND HENRY BEGG/ WHO DIED 21ST OCTR/ 1889 AGED 51 YEARS.

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129. Table, 2.10 x 0.93m. THIS STONE/ IS ERECTED BY/ ALEXANDER CARLAW/ IN MEMORY OF HIS SON/ WILLIAM S CARLAW/ STUDENT OF DIVINITY/ AND SCHOOLMASTER/ AT AIRTH WHO DIED/ IN THE 23 YEAR OF HIS/ AGE THE 18 SEPTR 1818.

130. Head, arch & cavetto, 0.70 x 0.99 x 0.13m. 1821/ ALEXR CARLAW/ JANET DALZELL. [72]

131. Head, arch, 1.65 x 0.53 x 0.13m. (a) ERECTED BY/ WILLIAM TAYLOR/ & CATHERINE ROGER/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ THEIR PARENTS/ JAMES TAYLOR/ WHO DIED 3RD DECEMBER 1891/ AGED 75 YEARS/ MARGARET BULLIONS/ WHO DIED 1ST MAY 1891/ AGED 87 YEARS./ MARGARET BULLIONS/ DAUGHTEROF THE ABOVE/ WILLIAM TAYLOR/ WHO DIED 5TH APRIL 1896/ AGED 6 YEARS./ ALSO OF THE ABOVE/ WILLIAM TAYLOR/ WHO DIED AT WESTFIELD/ 1ST JANUARY 1911/ AGED 63 YEARS./ AND MARGARET VALANCE/ HIS WIFE/ WHO DIED 21ST JUNE 1936/ AGED 83 YEARS. (b) TAYLOR [on upper plinth]. (c) ROBERTSON/ GRAHAMSTON/ ---.

132. Head, pointed arch, 1.40 x 0.64 x 0.13m. ERECTED BY/ MARY FISH/ IN MEMORY OF HER SISTER/ CATHERINE FISH/ DIED AT AIRTH JUNE 5TH 1905/ AGED 72 YEARS/ ALSO/ ERECTED BY/ JOHN HUNTER/ IN MEMORY OF HIS MOTHER/ JANET OR ORR HUNTER/ DIED AT AIRTH DEC 7TH 1905/ AGED 90 YEARS.

133. Head, triangle, 1.55 x 0.67 x 0.15m. IN MEMORY OF/ ROBERT D. A. GILCHRIST/ WHO DIED 19TH OCT 1866,/ AGED 34 YEARS./ ALSO HIS WIFE/ MARGARET YOUNG/ WHO DIED 21ST JANY 1902,/ AGED 71 YEARS./ ALSO THEIR DAUGHTER/ HELEN GILCHRIST/ WHO DIED 20TH FEBY 1908/ AGED 46 YEARS./ ALSO THEIR SON/ JOHN GILCHRIST/ Illus 10: Stone 133 WHO DIED 13TH OCTOBER 1923/ AGED 65 YEARS.

134. Head, tri-lobed with corner quadrants, 0.50 x 0.74 x 0.13m. 18 28/ Erected by/[buried]

135. Head, pointed arch, 1.50 x 0.61 x 0.14m. ERECTED BY/ MARY FISH. IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND/ LEWIS HYND/ DIED AT AIRTH JULY

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2ND 1891./ AGED 50 YEARS./ THE ABOVE/ MARY FISH. DIED 13TH JUNE 1925,/ AGED 86 YEARS.

136. Head, stepped S-arch, 0.70 x 0.69 x 0.12m. 1826/ WILLIAM TAYLOR/ and/ JEAN WADDELL. [74]

137. Head, S-arched hood, 0.85 x 0.74 x 0.12m. 1826/ ERECTED/ BY/ WILLIAM TAYLOR/ and/ HELEN JARVIE. [75]

138. Head, finialled pediment, 1.60 x 0.65 x 0.21m. Erected/ BY/ HENRY CRAWFORD/ AND BROTHERS/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ THEIR PARENTS/ HUGH CRAWFORD DIED 22ND/ JUNE AND ----/ ------. [76 – Hugh Crawford died 28 June 1895 aged 91, Jane Learmonth died January 1888, sister Isabella died December 1842, Margaret died March 1858 aged 9 months]

139. Head, obelisk, 2.30 x 0.43 x 0.45m. (a) ERECTED BY JAMES TURNBULL/ IN MEMORY OF HIS BROTHER/ PETER/ WHO DIED MAY 30TH 1864,/ AND HIS MOTHER/ CATHERINE TAWSE/ WHO DIED FEBY 17TH 1876./ AND ALSO HIS FATHER/ JOHN TURNBULL/ WHO DIED SEPTR 10TH 1880,/ AND THE SAID/ JAMES TURNBULL/ WHO DIED JANRY 13TH 1916. [on die]. (b) ALSO HIS SISTERS/ M.A.P. TURNBULL/ DIED 21ST JAN. 1894/ AND/ MARION TURNBULL/ DIED 6TH MARCH 1898/ AND/ JEAN M. TURNBULL/ DIED 13TH FEBRUARY/ 1904.

140. Head, S-arch, 0.90 x 0.83 x 0.12m. Erected/ BY/ Revd JAMES SOMERVILLE/ In Memory of JANET SCOTT his wife/ Who died 1st August 1846/ Also/ of two of their sons named ANDREW/ who died in infancy/ AND/ MARGARET/ Their Daughter Who Died/ 30th November 1865/ &/ JESSIE SCOTT ROBERTSON/ ------[77]

141. Head, rounded, 2.20 x 0.90 x 0.20m. ERECTED BY/ JOHN SOMERVILLE MERCHANT LEITH/ IN LIVING REMEMBRANCE OF HIS FATHER/ THE REVD JAMES SOMERVILLE/ MINISTER OF THE/ UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AIRTH/ BORN IN THE PARISH OF CAMBUSNETHAN 1790/ ORDAINED AT AIRTH 1816/ FELL ON SLEEP 20TH JANUARY 1873/ IN THE 83RD YEAR OF HIS AGE/ AND IN THE 57TH YEAR OF HIS MINISTRY/ HIS LABOURS WERE ABUNDANT NOT ONLY/ AMONG THE PEOPLE OF HIS CHARGE BUT BEING/ A MAN OF PUBLIC SPIRIT/ HE EXERTED HIMSELF FOR THE WELFARE/ OF THE COMMUNITY ESPECIALLY IN/ ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE RELIGIOUS AND/ SECULAR EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG./ HE RESTS FROM HIS LABOURS/ AND HIS WORKS DO FOLLOW HIM/ / ELIZA, HIS DAUGHTER/ WIFE OF WM SCOTT ROBERTSON/ DIED IN AMERICA 11TH JULY 1863/ BURIED IN SPRINGDALE CEMETERY/ PEORIA ILLINOIS./ JAMES, HIS SON/ FORMERLY MERCHANT LONDON/ DIED

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31ST JANY 1877/ BURIED IN ROSEBANK CEMETERY, EDINBURGH. [78]

142. Head, S-arch, 0.80 x 0.82 x 0.07m. 1858/ ERECTED/ BY/ JOHN AITKEN/ IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE/ CHRISTINA MITCHELL/ WHO DIED 20 APRIL 185-/ AGED 66 YEARS.

143. Head, ogee, 0.55 x 1.03 x 0.08m. ERECTED/ BY MARION KINCAID TO THE/ MEMORY OF OGILVIE GRAHAM HER/ HUSBAND WHO DIED 9TH MAY/ 1849 AGED 57 YEARS.

144. Flat, 1.81 x 0.66m. SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ JANET HENDRY/ WHO DIED 4TH DEC./ 1861.

145. Head, S-arch, 0.80 x 0.88 x 0.16m. 1821/ Erected/ To the Memory of/ JAMES ADAMSON/ Late Overseer at Airth Castle/ Born in Berwickshire 1766/ Died at Airth 20 Novr 1817/ Blessed are the dead which/ die in the Lord Rev. XIV.13/ ERECTED/ BY/ THOS GRAHAM STIRLING.

146. Head, square with clipped corners, 0.75 x 0.64 x 0.12m. 1821/ DAVID LOW/ AGNES MCKAY.

147. Head, S-arch, 0.70 x 0.79 x 0.15m. ERECTED/ IN MEMORY OF/ ALEXANDER TURNBULL/ Who Died the ------1835.

148. Head, arch with finial, 1.85 x 0.60 x 0.16m. IN/ LOVING MEMORY OF/ MAGDALENE BRUCE./ WIFE OF/ ALEXANDER R. HUTTON,/ DIED 12TH MAY 1875,/ AGED 35 YEARS./ ALSO THEIR DAUGHTER/ MARGARET,/ DIED 5TH JUNE 1871,/ AGED 14 MONTHS./ THE ABOVE/ ALEXANDER R. HUTTON,/ DIED 17TH JUNE 1897,/ AGED 57 YEARS./ ALSO THEIR DAUGHTER/ AGNES I. HUTTON,/ DIED 6TH APRIL 1947,/ AGED 80 YEARS.

149. Head, complex tri-lobed, 0.90 x 0.63 x 0.15m. 1793/ Thomas Watt.

Figure 1 Illus 11: Stone 149

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150. Head, triangle, 1.10 x 0.60 x 0.16m. ERECTED/ BY/ WILLIAM RINTOUL/ AND/ MARY TURNBULL,/ IN MEMORY OF/ THEIR SON/ WILLIAM DIED 21ST APRIL 1877/ AGED 6 MONTHS/ / ASLEEP IN JESUS.

151. Head, complex tri-lobed, 1.90 x 0.70 x 0.22m. (a) Sacred/ TO/ THE MEMORY OF/ WALTER HEUGH/ WHO DIED 28TH SEPT 1854,/ AGED 78 YEARS./ JANET BALD HIS WIFE,/ WHO DIED 21ST JANY 1837,/ AGED 50 YEARS./ ROBERT THEIR SON WHO DIED/ 20TH APRIL 1825, AGED 8 YEARS./ JAMES THEIR SON, WHO DIED/ 4TH DEC 1848, AGED 40 YEARS./ JOHN, THEIR SON, WHO DIED IN/ PHILADELPHIA U.S. 31ST JULY 1857,/ AGED 44 YEARS./ WILLIAM, THEIR SON, WHO DIED/ IN NEVADA CITY U.S. 21ST AUGT 1867,/ AGED 56 YEARS./ WALTER, THEIR SON WHO DIED/ IN JERSEY CITY U.S. 6TH DEC. 1876,/ AGED 60 YEARS./ AGNES, THEIR DAUGHTER, WHO DIED/ 3RD MARCH 1891, AGED 77 YEARS./ MARGARET MCTAGGART HEUGH/ DIED AT NORTH GREENS 18TH OCTR 1897/ AGED 75 YEARS/ JANE MCGEACHAN HEUGH DIED FEBY 10/ 1908 AGED 77 YEARS. (b) DAVIDSON/ GLASGOW [on plinth]. [62]

152. Head, S-arch, 0.65 x 0.70 x 0.12m. 1826/ JOHN TAYLOR/ JEAN NEIL. [61]

153. Head, rectangular, 0.50 x 1.36 x 0.12m. 1826/ ERECTED/ BY/ JOHN MILLAR IN MEMORY/ OF/ LILLIAS MALCOLM/ Who Died 4 Janry 1826 Aged 75. [60]

154. Head, S-arch, 0.70 x 0.65 x 0.10m. 1826/ MUIR WALKER/ LILLIAS NEILSON/ This Stone holds 2 lairs. [59]

155. Head, complex tri-lobed, 2.05 x 0.68 x 0.20m. (a) Erected/ BY/ ROBERT ROSS & SUSAN TAYLOR/ IN MEMORY OF THEIR SON,/ ROBERT ROSS,/ WHO DIED 16TH MARCH 1869,/ AGED 20 YEARS./ ALSO THEIR DAUGHTER,/ ANN ROSS,/ WHO DIED 11TH APRIL 1869,/ AGED 16 YEARS./ / SUSAN TAYLOR DIED 26TH FEB 1873/ AGED 49 YEARS/ ROBERT ROSS FARMER/ AIRTH GREENS/ DIED 12TH MARCH 1873/ AGED 63 YEARS/ WILLIAM ROSS/ DIED 3RD APRIL 1918/ AGED 73 YEARS. (b) ---in ---e beloved in J----h ------[on upper plinth]. (c) J. DAVIDSON/ GLASGOW [on lower plinth].

156. Head, cavetto & ogee, 0.60 x 0.59 x 0.12m. ERECTED BY/ MICHAEL DUNN/ AND/ ELIZABETH HUTTON. [49]

156A. [49 - Alexander Archibald & Janet Clark]

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157. Head, triangle, 1.30 x 0.56 x 0.14m. ERECTED/ BY/ JAMES KEMP/ IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE/ ANN DICK/ WHO DIED 26TH SEPR 1879/ AGED 57 YEARS./ THE ABOVE/ JAMES KEMP/ WHO DIED 18TH JANY 1907/ IN HIS 81ST YEAR/ ANNIE FERRIER/ DIED 19TH MAY 1889./ ALEXANDER FERRIER/ DIED 14TH AUGUST 1911./ JEANNIE KEMP FERRIER/ DIED 1ST MARCH 1941./ JAMES FERRIER/ DIED 15TH AUG. 1957.

158. Head, bi-lobed with central point, 0.60 x 0.71 x 0.09m. 1821/ JAMES CUMMING. [50]

159. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 0.85 x 0.80 x 0.08m. ERECTED/ In Memory of/ JAMES CUMMING/ Farmer Airth who died 28th Octr 1843/ Aged 57 Years/ And/ JANET CHALMERS/ His Spouse who died 18th June 1821/ Aged 29 Years. [51]

160. Head, hooded S-arch, 0.85 x 0.73 x 0.08m. ERECTED/ BY/ ALEXR BALLANTINE/ In Memory of his Brother/ PETER BALLANTINE/ Who Died 27th April 1825/ Aged 20 years. [52]

161. Head, pointed arch, 1.10 x 0.52 x 0.12m. 1822/ PETER BALLANTINE/ AND/ HELEN DOBBIE. [53]

162. Head, pointed arch, 1.15 x 0.56 x 0.12m. 1822/ PETER BALLANTINE/ AND/ HELEN DOBBIE. [54]

163. Head, S-arch, 0.65 x 0.79 x 0.11m. (a) TWO LAIRS [along top]. (b) IN LOVING MEORY OF/ JESSIE ANGUS WHO DIED 8TH APRIL/ 1893/ AND ALSO OF HER FATHER/ JOHN ANGUS WHO DIED 14TH JULY/ 1899 AGED 62 YEARS./ ALSO/ ELIZABETH WATSON HIS WIFE/ WHO DIED 25TH OCTOBER 1901 AGED 57 YEARS.

164. Head, cavetto & ogee, 0.95 x 0.55 x 0.09m. Erected/ In Memory of/ JOHN CAMPBELL/ Who died in GLASGOW/ the 7th and Buried/ Here on the 11th Feby/ 1823/ Aged 24 Years. [55]

165. Head, cavetto, 0.60 x 0.67 x 0.15m. ANDREW STEWART/ and JANET RAE his/ fpouse. [56]

166. Head, S-arch, 1.15 x 0.57 x 0.13m. ERECTED BY THE FAMILY/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ THE PARENTS,/ THOMAS MEIKLE/ DIED 12TH MARCH 1933/ AGED 82 YEARS./ MARY SMITH/ DIED 18TH SEPT. 1896/ AGED 47 YEARS./ / “BLESSED ARE/ THE PURE IN HEART.”

167. Head, S-arch, 0.70 x 0.78 x 0.09m. ERECTED/ BY/ CHRISTIAN BROWN IN Memory/ of her Husband PETER MCQUEEN/ Who died 8th Augt 1824 Aged 60/ And of her Daugter/ SUSAN MCQUEEN/ Who died th r 20 Oct 1828/ Aged 5 Years. [57] Falkirk Local History Society Page 31

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168. Head, plinth only.

169. Head, tri-lobed, 0.60 x 0.62 x 0.09m. 1822/ JAMES WALLS/ and/ JANET SMITH. [58]

170. Head, cavetto, 0.35 x 0.59 x 0.14m. ERECTED/ BY/ JOHN WRIGHT IN/ MEMORY OF HIS SON/ ALEXR WRIGHT DIED/ 7TH JANY 18-4 AGED 10 MONTHS.

171. Head, bi-lobed, 0.40 x 0.56 x 0.15m. 1805/ Thomas Hardie/ Janet Peddie. [48]

172. Head, S-arch, 0.60 x 0.73 x 0.10m. 1832/ WILLIAM MCTGGET/ AGNES TURNBULL. [47]

173. Head, pointed arch, 1.50 x 0.68 x 0.15m. ERECTED/ BY/ AGNES RAE/ IN MEMORY OF/ ROBERT ARBUCKLE/ WHO DIED 17 APRIL 1886/ ALSO/ HIS WIFE MARY RAE/ WHO DIED 14 JULY 1887.

174. Head, plinth only.

175. Head, S-arch, 0.60 x 0.78 x 0.08m. 1833/ JOHN CARMICHAEL/ AND/ JANET BOYD. [46]

176. Head, obelisk, 2.20 x 0.33 x 0.33m. (a) IN MEMORY OF/ JAMES CARMICHAEL/ WHO DIED AT/ BAINSFORD BRIDGE/ 2ND JULY 1874,/ AGED 68 YEARS./ ALSO HIS WIFE/ HELEN SMITH/ WHO DIED AT FALKIRK/ 2ND OCTR 1888,/ AGED 52 YEARS. (b) ERECTED BY JANET CARMICHAEL. [on plinth]. (c) J.COWANS/ FALKIRK [base of plinth]. [45]

177. Head, pointed arch, 1.50 x 0.63 x 0.15m. ERECTED BY/ JAMES & ELIZABETH/ WRIGHT/ IN AFFICONATE REMEMBERANCE/ OF THEIR CHILDREN,/ JAMES WRIGHT,/ WHO DIED 19TH MAY 1875,/ AGED 4 MONTHS/ ELIZABETH RAE WRIGHT/ WHO DIED 14TH SEP. 1879/ AGED 21 MONTHS./ / NOT LOST BUT GONE BEFORE.

178. Head, Celtic cross on plinth, 2.20 x 0.47 x 0.24m. IN MEMORY OF/ JAMES BELL/ WHO DIED 15TH SEP. 1851,/ JANET NICOL,/ HIS WIFE, DIED 16TH DEC. 1865/’ AGED 71 YEARS./ WILLIAM BELL,/ THEIR SON, DIED 1ST OCT. 1869,/ AGED 42 YEARS. [44]

179. Head, stepped triangle, 0.90 x 0.70 x 0.15m. ERECTED/ BY/ RUSSELL SNODDON/ AND/ JEAN MALCOLM/ IN MEMORY OF THEIR TWO CHILDREN. [43]

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180. Head, stepped low arch, 0.65 x 0.61 x 0.12m. 1816/ WILLIAM BOYD/ and/ ANN CUMMING. [42]

181. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 1.05 x 0.79 x 0.09m. Sacred/ To The Memory oF/ WILLIAM ROSS/ Farmer Greens of Airth/ who died 25th Feby 1845/ And his Wife/ ANN BOYD/ who died 2d March 1844/ This Stone is/ ERECTED/ By Their/ Sorrowing Family. [41]

182. Head, ogee & cavetto, 0.80 x 0.91 x 0.13m. ERECTED/ By/ WILLIAM ROSS & ANN BOYD/ In memory of their Son William/ Who Died Decr 17th 1824, aged 22 i/ years/ / A.D. 1825. [40]

183. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 1.05 x 0.87 x 0.12m. 1846/ ALEXANDER ROSS/ AND/ MARY COWIE/ ALEXANDER ROSS/ DIED 9TH JUNE/ 1846. [39]

184. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 1.10 x 0.85 x 0.12m. 1863/ SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ JOHN ROSS/ FARMER AIRTH MAINS/ WHO DIED 12TH NOVR 1860/ AGED 52 YEARS. [38]

185. Head, tri-lobed, 0.85 x 0.89 x 0.12m. 1822/ ERECTED/ BY/ WILLIAM WRIGHT/ IN MEMORY OF HIS DAUGHTER/ MARGARET WRIGHT WHO DIED/ 7TH JUNE 1887 AGED 38 YEARS. [37]

186. Head, pointed arch, 1.39 x 0.65 x 0.17m. ERECTED/ BY/ WALTER ROBERTSON/ AND/ ELIZABETH DUNCANSON/ IN MEMORY OF THEIR SON/ DAVID/ WHO DIED 23RD AUGUST 1839/ AGED 2 YEARS/ MARY/ DAUGHTER WHO DIED 29TH JUNE 1859/ AGED 4 MONTHS/ JOHN/THEIR SON WHO DIED AT PLYMOUTH/ APRIL 27TH 1884 AGED 25 YEARS/ JANET/ THEIR DAUGHTER WHO DIED 21T APRIL 1880/ AGED 58 YEARS/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY FATHER/ AND MOTHER WALTER/ ROBERTSON DIED 2ND AUGUST/ 1892 AGED 74 YEARS ELIZABETH/ ROBERTSON RELICT OF WALTER ROBERTSON/ DIED 24TH SEPTEMBER 1894/ AGED 76 YEARS. [36]

187. Head, S- arch, 0.80 x 0.11m. 1834/ JOHN DUNCANSON. JANET MORRICE. [35]

188. Head, square, 0.80 x 0.78 x 0.08m. ERECTED/ 1828/ BY/ JOHN YULE/ and/ BETTY MORRISON. [22]

189. Head, arch with square shoulders, 0.75 x 0.38 x 0.08m. (a) IN/ LOVING MEMORY OF/ THOMAS WILSON/ DIED 12TH SEPT. 1923,/ AGED 62 YEARS/ ALSO HIS BELOVED WIFE/ LEITH MILLAR. DIED 26TH AUG. 1952/ AGED 87 YEARS. (b) WILSON [on plinth].

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190. Head, triangle, 1.05 x 0.66 x 0.14m. ERECTED/ BY/ THOMAS MCLAY,/ IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE/ ELIZABETH RAE,/ DIED 11TH JANUARY 1869,/ AGED 23 YEARS/ ALSO THOMAS WILSON BELOVED/ HUSBAND OF LEITH MILLAR WILSON,/ WHO DIED 12TH SEPT 1923./ AGED 62 YEARS.

191. Head, tri-lobed, 0.55 x 0.71 x 0.13m. 1815/ James Crawford/ Catherine –ager. [23]

192. Head, low arch with shoulders, 0.55 x 0.62 x 0.11m. 1828/ WILLIAM CRAWFORD. [24]

193. Head, low arch with shoulders, 0.80 x 0.62 x 0.11m. 1828/ WILLIAM CRAWFORD. [25]

194. Head. bi- lobed, 0.50 x 0.80 x 0.18m. 7 6/ THE ------BU----/ PLACE ------T/ & JEAN STEVEN HIS SPOUS & THEIR/ ---- [26 – John Tagget]

195. Head, arched, 0.45 x 0.48 x 0.11m. 1713/ IR SI. [27 – 1823 – John Nicol: Jn Gibb in West Mains Bothkennar]

196. Head, rectangular, 0.40 x 1.66 x 0.18m. A.G.:J.T/ ERECTED BY/ DAVID GRAHAM IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE/ MARGARET SIMPSON, DIED 4TH NOVEMBER/ 1848/ ALEXANDER GRAHAM DIED 3D JULY 1852 AGED 22 YEARS/ DAVID GRAHAM DIED 14TH JUNE 1858 AGED 59 YEARS. [28]

197. Head, S-arch, 1.00 x 0.91 x 0.13m. 1854/ SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ HELEN STEEL/ WHO DIED 6TH FEBY 1844/ AGED 26 YEARS/ AND IN MEMORY OF HER BROTHER/ JOHN STEEL/ WHO DIED 9TH FEBY 1854/ AGED 23 YEARS/ ANDREW STEEL AND JANE IVORY/ MY FATHER/ JAMES STEEL LATE FARMER LETHAM/ DIED FEBY 24TH 1861 AGED 78 YEARS/ JOHN MCKENZIE STEEL DIED 8TH MARCH 1875. [29]

198. Head, square, 0.55 x 0.61 x 0.11m. 1834/ WILLIAM GARDNER/ and/ ISABELLA DUNCANSON. [30]

199. Head, S-arch, 0.80 x 0.93 x 0.16m. 1853/ THOMAS JEFFREY/ AND/ MARION TAYLOR. [31]

200. Head, square with cut corners, 0.55 x 0.64 x 0.13m. ERECTED BY/ MARGARET JEFFREY/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY BELOVED/ HUSBAND JAMES JEFFREY/ WHO DIED 20TH JULY 1896/ AGED 62 YEARS. [32]

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201. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 0.90 x 0.79 x 0.13m. 1846/ ERECTED/ BY/ ALEXANDER WHITE/ AND/ JEAN THOMAS/ IN MAMOREY OF THERE/ DAUGHTER MARY WHO DIED/ MARCH 16 1840 AGED 19 YEARS. [33]

202. Head, square with corner lobes, 0.85 x 0.73 x 0.11m. ALEXR WHYT: HELEN DOW/ REMEMBER MAN AS THOU PASS BY/ AS YOU ARE NOW SO ONC WAS I/ AS I AM NOW SO MUST YOU BE/ ------[34]

203. Head, obelisk, 3.10 x 0.56 x 0.56m. (a) ERECTED/ BY/ robt & athr younger/ IN MEMORY OF THEIR/ FATHER ALXR YOUNGER/ who died 27TH aug 1831 aged 37 years/ ALSO/ THEIRE MOTHER/ MARGARET WELSH WHO/ DIED 19TH APR. 1854 AGED 62 YEARS/ AND ALSO THEIR/ BROTHERS & SISTERS. (b) ALEXANDER YOUNGER/ 11TH JULY 1888/ AGED 57 YEARS. [on plinth]. [21]

204. Head, triangle, 0.85 x 0.47 x 0.10m. ERECTED BY/ HUGH GIBNEY/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF HIS CHILDREN/ WILLIAM, HUGH & MARY/ WHO DIED IN INFANCY.

205. Head, pointed arch, 2.05 x 0.69 x 0.21m. (a) In/ MEMORY/ OF/ JANE HODGE/ BELOVED WIFE OF/ CAPTAIN JOHN CALLANDER/ WHO DIED AT AIRTH/ 15TH SEPTEMBER 1890/ AGED 61 YEARS/ ALSO/ CAPTAIN JOHN CALLANDER/ WHO DIED 14TH MAY, 1895/ AGED 69 YEARS./ / TO DIE IS ENDLESS REST (b) ‘NEARER, MY GOD, TO THEE/ NEARER TO THEE’ [on upper plinth]. [20]

206. Head, S-arch, 1.45 x 0.90 x 0.12m. 1866/ ERECTED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ ROBERT HODGE/ DIED 10 AUGUST 1838 AGED 52 YEARS/ AND JANE MALCOLM HIS WIFE/ DIED 14 MARCH 1841 AGED 54 YEARS/ AND THEIR CHILDREN/ WILLIAM JOHN DIED 23 JUNE 1816 DIED 28 JULY 1826 AGED 1 YEAR AGED 6 YEARS JANET CATHERINE DIED 12 MARCH 1827 DIED 20 JULY 1838 AGED 2 YEARS AGED 19 YEARS MALCOLM/ DIED 1 NOVEMBER 1856/ AGED 33 YEARS/ LILIAS/ DIED 13 JANR 1905/ AGED 78 YEARS. [19]

207. Head, rectangular, 0.60 x 1.24 x 0.13m. 1825/ ROBERT HODGE & JEAN MALCOLM. [18]

208. Head, bi-lobed, 0.35 x 0.62 x 0.13m. 1822/ JAMES WATSON/ AGNES HODGE. [17]

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209. Head, S-arch, 0.65 x 0.69 x 0.08m. 1833/ JAMES NICOL/ AND/ ELIZABETH CARMICHAEL. [16]

210. Head, S-arch, 0.65 x 0.76 x 0.07m. 1832/ ERECTED/ BY/ JAMES NICOL and/ ELIZABETH CARMICHAEL/ In Memory of their Daughters/ HELEN and ELIZABETH. [15]

211. Head, multi-lobed, 0.95 x 0.70 x 0.10m. [Inscription lost due to lamination.]

212. Head. tri-lobed with corner turrets, 1.00 x 0.70 x 0.11m. Erected BY/ DAVID BRUCE/ AND/ MARION BOYD. [14]

213. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 1.40 x 0.85 x 0.12m. 1857/ SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ DAVID BRUCE/ WHO DIED 12TH AUGT 1856 AGED 61 YEARS./ MARION BOYD HIS WIFE WHO DIED/ 2d JANY 1835 AGED 37 YEARS/ HELEN BRUCE HIS DAUGHTER/ WHO DIED 22d JULY 1841 AGED 3 YEARS/ JOHN BRUCE HIS SON WHO DIED 31ST/ JANY 1857 AGED 24 YEARS/ ---/ THIS STONE IS ERECTED/ AS A MARK OF RESPECT BY THEIR/ SORROWING FAMILY/ AGNES IRVINE/ DIED 12TH FEBY 1861/ AGED 58 YEARS.

214. Head, tri-lobed, 0.85 x 0.93 x 0.18m. 1835/ JAMES MITCHELL/ and/ CHRISTINA RUSSELL. [11]

214A. Flat – [1829 James Mitchell and Christina Russell.]

215. Head, square, 0.70 x 0.74 x 0.12m. ERECTED/ In Memory of/ JOHN MITCHELL/ Who Died 21 Febr 1829/ In the 22 Year of his Age. [10]

216. Head, hooded S-arch, 0.85 x 0.69 x 0.10m. SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ M JOHN STEEL/ STUDENT OF DIVINITY/ WHO DIED 5TH APRIL 1800/ AGED 24 YEARS/ ALSO/ ANDREW STEEL/ WHO DIED 3 AUG 1848/ AGED 71 YEARS/ ERECTED/ BY/ JAMES STEEL/ FARMER LETHAM. [9]

217. Head, multi-lobed, 0.65 x 0.75 x 0.10m. 18 31/ The Property of/ WILLIAM LIDDELL/ and/ MARGARET BOYD/ his wife and their Children. [8]

218. Head, ogee & cavetto, 0.75 x 0.68 x 0.14. 1830/ GEORGE BUTLER/ and/ JEAN WATT. [7]

219. Head, hooded S-arch, 0.75 x 0.74 x 0.10m. 1827/ Erected/ BY/ John Butler/ and Margaret Brown. [6]

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220. Head, S-arch, 0.85 x 0.71 x 0.12m. 1846/ ERECTED/ BY/ GEORGE DUNCANON/ AND/ JANET MORICE/ IN MAMOREY OF THERE/ DAUGHTER MARY WHO DIED/ DECEMBER 22 1842 AGED 19 YEARS/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY BROTHER/ WALTER ROBERTSON DIED/ AT OXGANG GRANGEMOUTH/ 7TH MAY 1895 AGED 44 YEARS. [5]

221. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 1.10 x 0.81 x 0.11m. MDCCCXXXIV/ Erected/ BY/ JOHN DICK/ AND/ JEAN COWIE/ In Memory of their Son JOHN/ who was Drowned the 23rd Augt/ 1835 Also their Son ALXr who/ was Drowned the 5th Octr/ 1837/ And also their Son GEORGE/ who was Drowned 18th Octr/ 1847 Aged 10 Years. [4]

222. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 1.20 x 0.79 x 0.10m. MDCCCXXXIV/ Erected/ BY/ JOHN HUTTON/ In Memory of his Mother who/ Died the 22d April 1837 Aged 57/ Years. Also in/ Memory of his father who/ died the 20th Novr 1838/ Aged 61 Years/ Also His SON-IN- LAW/ JOHN STENHOUSE/ BORN 3RD MARCH 1834 DIED 30TH OCTOBER 1908 AGED 74. [3]

223. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 1.10 x 0.74 x 0.10m. 1843/ ERECTED/ BY/ JOHN HUTTON/ AND/ ANN ROSS/ JOHN HUTTON/ BORN 24TH NOV 1805 DIED 21ST OCT 1855/ ANN ROSS/ BORN 27TH SEP. 1806, DIED 30TH OCT 1894/ THEIR DAUGHTER/ ANN BOYD/ WIFE OF JOHN STENHOUSE/ DIED 9TH JUNE 1925 AGED 83 YEARS. [2]

224. Head, cavetto with central arch, 0.95 x 0.90 x 0.13m. Erected/ BY/ JAMES HUTTON/ and/ ANNE COWIE/ In Memory of their Son JAMES/ who died the 18th Jany 1836/ Aged 27 Years. [1]

225. Head, triangle, 1.00 x 0.74 x 0.09m. In memory/ of/ BENJAMIN TAPSFIELD. BORN 2ND NOV. 1876,/ DIED 10TH APR. 1882./ / “CHILDREN ARE GOD’S HERITAGE”.

226. Head. pointed arch, 1.75 x 0.56 x 0.17m. (a) ERECTED/ BY/ ALEXANDER/ AND ELIZA DICK/ IN LOVING MEMORY/ OF THEIR SON/ ALEXANDER WHO/ DIED 15TH FEBRY/ 1894 AGED 22 YEARS/ ALSO THE ABOVE/ ELIZA KEMP DICK/ WHO DIED 2ND AUGUST 1912/ AGED 62 YEARS/ ALSO THE ABOVE/ ALEXANDER DICK/ WHO DIED 30TH MARCH 1917/ AGED 72 YEARS. (b) THEY WILL BE DONE [on upper plinth].

227. Head, low arch, 0.15 x 0.51 x 0.14m. W KEMP.

228. Head, S-arch, 0.80 x 0.92 x 0.06m. 1865/ ERECTED/ BY/ JANET BROWN/ In Memory of her Husband/ CHARLES MACARTHUR/ WHO DIED 17TH JULY/ 1861/ AGED 56 YEARS/ JANET BROWN/ WHO DIED 11TH AUGUST 1878/ AGED 74 YEARS. [190]

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229. Head, S-arch, 0.80 x 0.79 x 0.13m. 1838/ Erected/ BY/ ALEXANDER MCARTHUR/ and/ JANET WATSON/ IN MEMORY OF/ JANET BROWN,/ WHO DIED 11TH AUGUST. [191]

230. Head, S-arch, 0.65 x 0.72 x 0.12m. 1813/ ERECTED/ BY/ ELEANOR HARDIE/ IN MEMORY OF HER FATHER/ JOHN HARDIE/ who died 6 Augt 1800/ AND OF HER MOTHER/ MARGRET OSWALD/ who died 6TH NOV 1832. [192]

231. Head, pointed arch, 0.95 x 0.51 x 0.14m. (a) ERECTED BY/ KENNETH AND MARY MCKENZIE/ IN MEMORY OF THEIR DAUGHTER/ MAY FISH MCKENZIE/ DIED AT DUNMORE 7 MARCH 1906/ AGED 1 YEAR AND 10 MONTHS. (b) ASLEEP IN JESUS [on plinth].

232. Head, arch, 1.05 x 0.48 x 0.11m. In/ Loving Memory of/ OUR DEAR FATHER/ JOHN MEIKLE DIED 7TH OCT. 1905, AGED 80./ AND OUR DEAR MOTHER/ CATHERINE BURNETT/ DIED 18TH MAY 1907, AGED 78./ ALSO THEIR SON/ JOHN/ WHO DIED IN AUSTRALIA/ 10TH MARCH 1936, AGED 68 YEARS.

233. Head, arch, 0.85 x 0.74 x 0.13m. ERECTED/ BY/ JOHN HUTTON/ And/ MARGARET MCLUCKIE. In memory of his Mother/ JEAN SCOBBIE/ Who died Dec 7 1833/ Aged 70 years. [193]

233A [195 – James MacKay died at Grangemouth 12 July 1883 aged 76 years, his wife Elizabeth Watson died 21 August 1881 aged 74 years, their daughter Jane died 26 March 1842 aged 4 years, James died 18 June 1874.]

234. Head, S-arch, 0.85 x 0.74 x 0.14m. (a) THIS STONE HOLDS 3 LAIRS [along top]. (b) 1867/ ERECTED/ BY/ CORNELIUS FERGUSON/ AND/ ELIZABETH TAYLOR/ IN MEMORY OF TOERE FATHER/ THOMAS FERGUSON/ WHO DIED 25 JUNE 1858/ AGED 54 YEARS/ CHRISTINA HOTCHKIES/ THEIR MOTHER WHO DIED 21st DECR 1872/ AGED 72 YEARS.

235. Head, S-arch, 0.90 x 0.75 x 0.11m. (a) 1811/ ROBERT BOWIE/ SARAH F-RTOES (b) IN/ MEMORY/ OF/ WILLM BOYD/ who/ Died 27 Decr 1811/ Aged 2 years. [on back]. [194 – Sarah Porteous]

236. Head, pointed arch, 1.45 x 0.59 x 0.14m. ERECTED/ BY/ ROBERT KENNEDY/ AND/ JANET TURNBULL/ IN MEMORY OF THEIR SON/ WILLIAM/ DIED 30TH JUNE 1874/ AGED 10 MONTHS/ THOMAS/ THEIR SON DIED 17TH SEPR 1879/ AGED 17 MONTHS/ JANET/ THEIR DAUGHTER DIED 6TH APRIL 1881/ AGED 12 YEARS & 3 MONTHS/ ALSO THEIR DAUGHTER/ HELEN CAMPBELL/ WHO DIED 8TH OCTR 1891/ AGED 25 YEARS/ THE ABOVE ROBERT KENNEDY/ DIED 12TH APRIL 1893, AGED 56 YEARS./ ELIZABETH KENNEDY/ DIED 29TH OCT. 1893, AGED 9 YEARS./ ALSO THE ABOVE/ JANET TURNBULL,/ DIED 30TH JUNE 1926, AGED 81 YEARS.

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237. Head, S-arch, 0.95 x 0.85 x 0.15m. Erected/ BY/ JOHN and SOPHIA TAYLOR/ In Memory of their Son/ JAMES TAYLOR/ Who Died 25th Augt 1836. [189]

238. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 0.60 x 0.76 x 0.11m. Sacred/ TO the Memory of/ JOAN TAYLOR/ born September 7th 1822 died October 1845/ Youngest daughter of JOHN TAYLOR/ Gardener at Dunmore Park/ This Stone is ERECTED BY/ The Countess of/ Dunmore/ with whose Children JOAN TAYLOR/ had lived and by whom She was much/ Regretted. [188]

239. Head, pointed arch, 1.50 x 0.66 x 0.10m. [Fallen face down]. [187 – John Taylor for 50 years gardener at Dunmore Park died 3 September 1859 aged 87 years, erected by George A Murray and H A Murray the two younger sons of George 5th Earl of Dunmore]

240. Head, triangle, 0.80 x 0.72 x 0.11m. 1861/ ERECTED. BY/ WILLIAM CARMICHAEL/ IN MEMORY OF/ SUSAN TAYLOR HIS WIFE/ WHO DIED 13TH SEPTR 1861/ AGED 52 YEARS. [186]

241. Head, S-arch, 0.65 x 0.71 x 0.11m. 1809/ HUGH SHARP/ ELIZABETH WATSON. [185]

242. Head, low arch, 1.45 x 0.63 x 0.13m. (a) Erected by/ BARBARA MCEWAN/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND/ JAMES MCDONALD/ WHO DIED 2ND MAY 1902 AGED 59 YEARS/ ALSO OF THE ABOVE/ BARBARA MCEWAN/ WHO DIED 2ND MAY 1913. AGED 69 YEARS/ / GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. (b) ROBERTSON/ GRAHAMSTON [on plinth].

243. Head, arch, 1.55 x 0.61 x 0.13m. ERECTED/ BY/ JANET SHEARER/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ HER BELOVED HUSBAND/ ALEXANDER D. SCOTT/ WHO DIED AT NORTH GREENS, AIRTH/ 23RD JUNE 1913 AGED 67 YEARS/ ALSO OF THEIR SON/ ROBERT/ WHO DIED 8TH JANUARY 1898/ AGED 2 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS/ ALSO OF THE ABOVE/ JANET SHEARER/ WHO DIED AT NORTH GREENS, AIRTH/ 26TH JANUARY 1931 AGED 72 YEARS.

244. Head, plinth only.

245. Head, arch with corner turrets, 0.90 x 0.87 x 0.12m. 1840/ ERECTED/ by the family of/ JAMES TOWERS/ in memory of/ THEIR FATHER/ WHO DIED/ THE 15TH SEPTEMBER 1838/ Aged 71 Years. [184]

246. Head, S-arch, 0.80 x 0.90 x 0.12m. (a) 2 lairs [along top]. (b) [Inscription lost]. [183 – Andrew Neilson, 1832]

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247. Head, square, 0.70 x 1.07 x 0.11m. (a) IN MEMORY OF/ JOHN STENHOUSE WHO DIED 22ND FEBY/ 1848 AGED 80 YEARS/ BARBRA GRAHAM HIS SPOUSE DIED/ 4TH SEPTR 1836 AGED 66 YEARS. (b) TWO LAIRS [on back]. [182]

248. Head, 1.35 x 0.63m. [Fallen face down].

249. Head, S-arch, 0.60 x 0.85 x 0.08m. ERECTED BY/ JAMES GILFILLAN & MARY NICOL.

250. Head, S-arch, 1.10 x 0.93 x 0.16m. 1846/ ERECTED/ BY/ JOHN PATERSON/ and/ MARGARET IRVINE/ In Memory of/ their Son JOHN who died 17th JULY 1835/ Also their Mother ELIZABETH RUE/ who died 15th July 1838 Aged 72 years/ Also their Son WILLIAM who died 7th JULY/ 1843. [178]

251. Head, 2.60 x 0.46 x 0.46m. (a) IN LOVING MEMORY/ OF/ JOHN JACK,/ DIED 14TH MARCH 1914, AGED 64 YEARS./ AND HIS WIFE/ ELIZABETH COWIE YOUNG/ DIED 22ND AUGUST 1925/ AGED 74 YEARS./ THOMAS THEIR SON/ DIED 15TH SEPT. 1906,/ AGED 9 YEARS. (b) JACK [on upper plinth] (c) ROBERTS/ FALKIRK [on lower plinth].

252. Head, S-arch, 0.95 x 1.10 x 0.13m. 1841/ ERECTED/ BY/ JAMES BALD/ AND/ JANET MALCOLM. [179]

253. Head, plinth only.

254. Head, triangle, 0.95 x 0.57 x 0.10m. ERECTED BY/ ALEXR LAIRD & ISABELLA WELSH/ IN MEMORY OF THEIR CHILDREN/ GRACE/ DIED 25TH FEBY 1868, AGED 6 WEEKS/ JAMES/ DIED 17TH MAY 1873 AGED 8 MONTHS/ GRACE THOMAS/ DIED 30TH DECR 1862, AGED 54 YEARS./ ALSO OF THEIR SON/ ALEXANDER/ DIED 14TH AUG. 1878 AGED 20 YEARS/ / FRIENDS WEEP NOT IN SORROW OF SPIRIT/ BUT JOY THAT MY TIME IS OVER.

255. Head, triangle with turrets, 0.70 x 0.69 x 0.09m. 1847/ JOHN A SCOBBIE/ AND/ AGNES MITCHELL. [180]

256. Head, triangle with turrets, 0.70 x 0.69 x 0.09m. 1847/ JOHN A SCOBBIE/ AND/ AGNES MITCHELL. [181]

257. Head, plinth only.

258. Head, pointed arch, 1.85 x 0.69 x 0.17m. IN/ LOVING MEMORY/ OF/ JAMES HARMAN/ WHO DIED 14TH SEPTEMBER/ 1904,/ AGED 50 YEARS./ ALSO OF HIS WIDOW/ MARY ANN FISH/ WHO DIED 6TH OCTOBER/ 1910/ AGED 53 YEARS./ / ERECTED BY HIS WIDOW.

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259. Head, triangle, 1.55 x 0.53 x 0.13m. (a) Erected/ BY/ AGNES KIDD/ IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND/ THOMAS JOHNSTON/ DIED AT POWDRAKE/ 23RD JULY 1905, AGED 73 YEARS/ ALSO HER BROTHER/ HENRY KIDD/ DIED 22ND NOV. 1890, AGED 75 YEARS/ THE ABOVE/ AGNES KIDD/ DIED 26TH FEB. 1913, AGED 82 YEARS. (b) ROBERTS & SON/ FALKIRK [on lower plinth]

260. Head, low arch, 1.95 x 0.66 x 0.15m. [Fallen face down]. A ROBERTS & SON/ FALKIRK [on plinth]. [169 – Peter Boyd at South Greens died 31 December 1911 aged 58 years; his sister Margaret Bald died 16 November 1922 aged 68]

261. Head, triangle, 1.45 x 0.86 x 0.09m. 1845/ ERECTED/ BY/ PETER BOY-/ and/ ANN ADAM-/ WESTFIELD/ In Memory of their/ Affectionate Dau-----/ AGNES/ who died 12th April 1---/ Aged 18 Years/ Sincerely Regretted by a/ Numerous Circle of/ FRIENDS/ SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ ADAM/ WHO DIED AT WESTFIELD THE/ 13th MARCH 1848/ WILLIAM BOYD WHO DIED AT SOUTH GREENS/ 15TH AUGUST 1880 AGED 51 YEARS/ ALSO/ HIS WIFE JANET BOYD WHO DIED 29TH AUGUST/ 1901 AGED 79 YEARS. [168]

262. Head, cavetto & central arch, 1.10 x 0.86 x 0.10m. ERECTED/ BY/ JAMES MCLAREN and/ JEAN ADAM In Memory of/ their daughter AGNES who/ Died 11th October 1831, AGED/ 15 Years/ Also their son WILLIAM who/ Died 18th September 1832/ AGED 11 Years. [167]

263. Head, triangle, 1.35 x 0.61 x 0.13m. ERECTED BY/ ROBERT A BOYD/ IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE/ ANNIE BOYD/ WHO DIED 25TH MARCH 1880/ AGED 36 YEARS/ ALSO HIS SON/ PETER/ WHO DIED 13TH DEC. 1873/ AGED 6 YEARS/ ALSO THE ABOVE/ ROBERT A BOYD/ WHO DIED 1ST DEC. 1912/ AGED 72 YEARS. [166]

264. Head, cornice, 1.80 x 0.72 x 0.15m. In Loving Memory/ of/ HELEN GARDNER/ THE BELOVED WIFE OF/ ROBERT A BOYD WESTFIELD,/ WHO DIED 10TH MARCH 1912/ AGED 75 YEARS. [165]

265. Head, triangle, 0.60 x 0.68 x 0.10m. ERECTED/ BY/ JAMES WALKER/ AND CATHERINE STEWART/ JAMES WALKER DIED/ 17TH NOVEMBER 1899 AGED 58 YEARS/ ALSO THEIR SON/ ROBERT WALKER DIED/ 13TH APRIL 1901 AGED 19 YEARS.

266. Head, triangle, 0.90 x 0.58 x 0.16m. MARY ANN HARLOW/ WIFE OF/ RICHARD MCLELLAN/ DUNMORE/ DIED 4TH NOV 1877./ RICHARD MCLELLAN/ DIED 14TH APRIL 1890/ AGED 91 YEARS/ ALSO THEIR DAUGHTER/ AGNES/ DIED 2ND FEBRUARY 1927,/ AGED 76 YEARS./ / ERECTED BY THE FAMILY.

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267. Head, arch with shoulders, 0.75 x 0.70 x 0.11m. 1811/ ERECTED/ BY/ JANET SHARP/ In MEMORY of/ Her Husband/ WILLIAM TURNBULL/ who Died the 22d DECCr 1841/ Aged 42 Years/ JANET SHARP/ DIED 10th AUGUST 1867/ AGED 74 YEARS. [177]

268. Head, hooded pointed arch, 1.00 x 0.90 x 0.12m. 1860/ ALEXANDER DICK/ AND/ JANET BOWIE.

269. Head, S-arch, 0.85 x 0.91 x 0.13m. 1834/ ERECTED/ BY/ JOHN GRAHAM/ and/ HELEN DRYSDALE/ In Memory of their Daughter/ HELEN who Died the 7 Jany/ 1833 Aged 8 Years/ Also their Son ROBERT who/ died the 26th AUGUST AGED 14/ Years. [176]

270. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 2.15 x 0.84 x 0.13m. 1869/ BY/ JOHN GRAHAM/ IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER. JOHN GRAHAM/ FARMER POCKNAVE WHO DIED 22ND SEPR 1862/ AGED 79 YEARS/ AND/ HELEN DRYSDALE/ HIS MOTHER WHO DIED 1ST MAY 1868/ AGED 76 YEARS. [175]

271. Head, triangle with rounded shoulders, 1.30 x 0.60 x 0.18m. ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF/ ARCHIBALD MCINTYRE/ WHO DIED 19TH MAY 1861/ AGED 42 YEARS./ ALSO HIS SON JAMES/ DIED 8TH JULY 1881, AGED 6 MONTHS/ ALSO HIS SON JOSEPH/ DIED 21ST SEPTEMBER 1887/ AGED 10 YEARS/ ARCHIBALD MCINTYRE/ DIED 11TH APRIL 1900/ AGED 21 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS/ HIS WIFE MARY TAIT/ DIED 12TH JULY 1938 AGED 82 YEARS.

272. Head, square, 0.20 x 0.35 x 0.15m. J. LEISHMAN/ DIED/ 2ND MAY 1902.

273. Head, hooded arch, 1.15 x 0.61 x 0.12m. Sacred/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ ELIZA DOWNS/ WIFE OF WILLIAM BRAND/ WHO DIED 20TH FEBY 1866/ ALSO/ JOHN DOWNS HER BROTHER/ WHO DIED 16TH JULY 1869/ ALSO/ THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN of/ WILLIAM BRAND/ DAVID WHO DIED 24 JUNE 1871/ AGED 8 MONTHS/ JANET WHO DIED 11TH OCTR 1876,/ AGED 16 YEARS/ WILLIAM WHO DIED 29TH MARCH 1877/ AGED 21 YEARS/ IN MEMORY OF/ WILLIAM BRAND/ BELOVED HUSBAND OF/ CATHERINE LEARMONTH/ DIED 23 MARCH 1897 AGED 64 YEARS.

274. Head, triangle, 1.25 x 0.66 x 0.14m. ERECTED/ BY/ ALEXANDER PAXTON/ IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE/ AGNES JAMIESON/ DIED 20TH OCT. 1865./ ALEXANDER,/ THEIR SON DIED 6TH MAY 1884./ ALSO HIS WIFE/ ISABELLA MCISAAC/ DIED 6TH OCT. 1868.

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275. Head, triangular hood, 0.95 x 0.82 x 0.13m. 1848/ ERECTED/ in Memory of/ ROBERT YOUNG/ who died the 19th Octr 1840/ Aged 46 Years. [174]

276. Head, plinth only. [170 – John Millar, Catherine Dick died 31 August 1829].

277. Head, triangular hood, 0.75 x 0..76 x 0.11m. 1848. ERECTED/ in Memory of/ ROBERT YOUNG/ who died the 24th Octr 1832/ Aged 78 Years/ Also in Memory of his/ WIFE/ AGNES DOUGLAS/ who died the 11th Decr 1832/ Aged 66 Years. [173]

278. Head, arch with corner lobes, 0.80 x 0.81 x 0.12m. 1832/ Erected/ By/ THOMAS JOHNSTON. [172]

279. Head, chest, broken. [171 – Michael and Eliza Mary Stewart Nicolson, son Michael born 24 June 1820 died 20 July 1820.

280. Head, square with cut corners, 1.20 x 0.92 x 0.15m. SACRED/ To the Memory of/ ARCHIBALD MacNICOLL/ who during a long life discharge/-ed strictest fidelity his Duties to his MAKER & to his/ Earthly Master He died 14 Feb. 1828 Aged 91 Years full of Val/-ued worth as of Venerable/ Years and this stone is placed/ here by GEORGE EARL of/ Dunmore as a tribute of/ regard & gratitude for 53/ years of faithful attachment/ / Its simple Record is/ Here rests an honest man. [159]

281. Head, pointed arch, 1.00+ x 0.88 x 0.11m. [Fallen face down].

282. Head, triangular hood, 0.55 x 0.80 x 0.09m. 1840/ ERECTED/ BY/ MICHAEL SCOBBIE/ and/ HELEN MATSON. [160]

283. Head, triangle with corner turrets and finial, 1.25 x 0.65 x 0.16m. SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ ALEXANDER JEFFREY,/ BUILDER BRIDGETON,/ WHO DIED 14TH OCTOBER 1850,/ AGED 40 YEARS/ MARY SCOBBIE HIS SPOUSE/ WHO DIED – JUNE 1851,/ AGED – YEARS/ ALSO/ MICHAEL SCOBBIE/ THER ------/ WHO WAS DROWNED/ CALCUTTA 14TH OCTOBER 184-/ DEEPLY REGRETTED. [161 - nephew]

284. Head, square with cut corners, 0.65 x 0.79 x 0.10m. 1834/ WILLIAM HODGE/ AGNES MCCLELLAND. [162]

285. Head, rectangular, 0.60 x 1.50 x 0.12m. (a) HERE LIE THE MORTAL REMAINS OF [along top border] (b) HENRY COUBROUGH,/ PYETREES/ WHO DIED 17TH DEC 1838,/ AGED 63 YEARS./ JAMES SON OF,/ HENRY & WILHELMINA COUBROUGH/ DIED 1ST APRIL 1864./ ROBERT

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ALSO SON AS ABOVE, / DIED 5TH AUGUST 1866. [left hand side]. (c) WILHELMINA THE WIFE OF/ HENRY COUBROUGH/ WHO DIED 14TH APRIL 1863,/ AGED 80 YEARS./ AND/ MARTHA COUBROUGH/ HER SISTER./ DIED 8TH JUNE 1863,/ AGED 88 YEARS. [right hand side]. [163]

286. Head, S-arch, 0.90 x 0.86 x 0.13m. 1870// ERECTED/ BY/ MALCOLM HUTTON BOOKS/ IN MEMORY OF HIS UNCLE/ ARCHIBALD HUTTON/ WHO DIED 2D AUGUST 1870/ IN THE 48TH YEAR OF HIS AGE/ NOT LOST BUT GONE BEFORE/ ALSO HIS MOTHER JANET HUTTON/ WHO DIED AT AIRTH 7TH JUNE 1891 AGE 77 YEARS.

287. Head, low arch, 0.70 x 0.75 x 0.10m. 1894/ ALEXANDER WRIGHT.

288. Head, S-arch. 0.80 x 0.82 x 0.11m. 1839/ ERECTED/ BY/ JOHN TAYLOR/ AND/ ISABELLA HENRY. [164]

289. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 0.95 x 0.81 x 0.09m. 1867/ [lost due to lamination].

290. Head, triangle with corner turrets & finial, 1.15 x 0.62 x 0.15m. JAMES BAIKIE/ SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ MARGARET SCOBBIE/ HIS SPOUSE/ who died the ------1832/ AGED 22 YEARS/ ---- is ------/ That ------/ To be seen. [158]

291. Head, S-arch, 0.50 x 0.54 x 0.09m. 1846/ THOMAS BROWN/ and/ EUPHEMIA PEDDIE. [157]

292. Foot, heart-shaped, 0.30 x 0.28 x 0.14m. AT REST/ JANET PENMAN.

293. Head, rustic square, 1.55 x 0.62 x 0.12m. IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ JAMES SANDERSON/ MITCHELL/ DIED 25TH APRIL 1919,/ AND HIS WIFE/ JESSIE MITCHELL/ DIED 5TH JULY 1947./ ALSO THEIR SON/ ALEXANDER MITHCELL/ DIED 3RD SEPTEMBER 1920./ THEIR YOUNGER SON/ WILLIAM SANDERSON/ MITCHELL/ DIED 23RD AUGUST 1973/ IN PERTH AUSTRALIA./ AND THEIR ONLY DAUGHTER/ JANE ISABEL MITCHELL/ BORN 6TH JUNE 1899/ DIED 30TH MARCH 1984.

294. Head, triangle with rounded shoulders, 1.05 x 0.77 x 0.11m. IN LOVING MEMORY/ OF/ KATE, SECOND DAUGHTER/ OF JOHN & ISABELLA ROBERTSON/ WHO DIED JUNE 6TH 1910 AGED 22 YEARS/ ALSO ANNIE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER/ DIED MAY 6TH 1919, AGED 12 YEARS/ SIMON DALGLEISH, DIED 6TH FEB. 1910/ ALSO THE ABOVE/ ISABELLA ROBERTSON/ DIED 17TH APRIL 1926, AGED 80 YEARS/ JOHN ROBERTSON/ DIED 1ST FEB. 1934, AGED 72 YEARS.

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295. Head, arch with shoulders, 0.65 x 0.77 x 0.11m. (a) THIS STONE HOLDS TWO LAIRS [along top]. (b) 1863/ ERECTED/ BY/ JOHN STODDART AND ANNIE COWIE HIS/ WIFE IN MEMORY OF HER FATHER WILLIAM/ COWIE WHO DIED MAY 21ST 1873 AGED/ 62 YEARS/ ALSO MY MOTHER/ ANN CUMMING WHO DIED MARCH TH23/ 1881 AGED 72,/ ANNIE COWIE DIED 5TH JANY 1890/ AGED 42 YEARS.

296. Head, triangle with corner turrets, 1.10 x 0.88 x 0.15m. MDCCCXLV/ Erected/ BY/ WILLIAM MARTIN/ and/ JANET GILFILLAN/ In Memory of their Daughter/ JANET/ Who died 11th June/ 1831. [156]

297. Head, triangle & ogee, 0.95 x 0.50 x 0.12m. 0.95 x 0.50 x 0.12m. ERECTED BY/ MALCOLM H BROOKS/ AND/ JANET LAIRD/ IN MEMORY OF THEIR YOUNGEST/ MALCOLM HUTTON BROOKS/ WHO DIED AT CARRONSHORE ON/ 20TH OCTR 1895 AGED 12 YEARS/ EARTH HAD THE BUD/ HEAVEN HAS THE FLOWER.

298. Head. triangle with corner turrets, 1.25 x 0.87 x 0.11m. 1859/ ERECTED/ BY/ ROBERT GALLOWAY/ AND/ MARY LEARMONTH/ IN MEMORY OF THEIR SON/ THOMAS GALLOWAY/ WHO DIED APRIL – 1859/ AGED 23 YEARS/ The Above/ ROBERT GALLOWAY/ DIED 19 APRIL – 1860/ ALSO/ MARY LEARMONTH/ HIS WIFE DIED 12TH SEPTR/ 1859/ ALEX GALLOWAY DIED JAN 25th/ 1873/ HELEN GALLOWAY/ JANUARY 7TH 1878.

Index of Names

Adam, Ann 261 Adam, Jean 262 Adamson, James 145 Aitken, John 142 Aitken, William 52 Allan, John 71 Allan, Thomas 93 Angus, Jessie 163 Angus, John 163 Arbuckle, Robert 173 Archibald, Alexander 156A Archibald, James 49 Armstrong, Adam 78 Armstrong, Elizabeth 78 Armstrong, Robert 79 Arthur, Jane 53 Baikie, James 290 Bald, Helen 4 Bald, James 252

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Bald, Janet 151 Bald, Margaret 260 Ballantine, Alexander 160 Ballantine, John 92 Ballantine, Peter 160, 161 Bamford, Thomas 67 Begg, Henry 128 Bell, James 178 Bell, Peter 116 Bell, William 178 Bennet, Janet 51 Bennet, Mary 51 Bennet, William 51 Black, Elizabeth 40 Bow, Jane 74 Bow, William 74 Bowie, Ann 32, 92 Bowie, Janet 268 Bowie, Robert 235 Boyd, Adam 261 Boyd, Agnes 261 Boyd, Ann 181, 182 Boyd, Annie 263 Boyd, Janet 175 Boyd, Margaret 77, 217 Boyd, Marion 212, 213 Boyd, Mary 127 Boyd, Peter 260, 261, 263 Boyd, Robert A 263, 264 Boyd, William 180, 235, 261 Brand, David 273 Brand, Janet 273 Brand, William 273 Brooks, Malcolm Hutton 286, 297 Brown, Christian 167 Brown, Christian McCulloch 101 Brown, George 96 Brown, James Scobbie 96 Brown, Janet 228, 229 Brown, Margaret 219 Brown, Thomas 291 Bruce, David 212, 213 Bruce, Helen 213 Bruce, John 213 Bruce, Magdalene 148 Bruce, Robert 20 Buchanan, James 77

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Butler, George 218 Butler, John 219 Bullions, Margaret 131 Burnett, Catherine 232 Callander 42 Callander, Agnes 86 Callander, Isabella 56 Callander, Jane 124 Callander, Capt. John 86, 205 Callander, Mary 86 Callander, Thomas 124 Campbell, Helen 236 Campbell, John 164 Carlaw, Alexander 129, 130 Carlaw, William S 129 Carmichael, Elizabeth 209, 210 Carmichael, James 176 Carmichael, Janet 176 Carmichael, John 175 Carmichael, William 240 Chalmers, Elizabeth 23 Chalmers, Henry 10 Chalmers, James 23 Chalmers, Janet 159 Chalmers, Jememia 23 Chambers, Mary 50 Christie, Janet 30 Christie, John 40 Clark, Janet 156A Clark, Robert 83 Clubb, Janet Murray 126 Clubb, John 125, 126 Collins, J. 80 Coubrough, Henry 285 Coubrough, James 285 Coubrough. Martha 285 Coubrough, Robert 285 Coubrough, Wilhelmina 285 Cowan, Charles 76 Cowan, Helen 3 Cowan, Jane Jeanie 3 Cowan, John 55 Cowan, William 76 Cowie, Jean 221 Cowie, Mary 183 Cowbrough, Elizabeth 119 Cowie, Anne 224

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Cowie, Annie 295 Cowie, Elizabeth 251 Cowie, Mary 72 Cowie, William 295 Crawford, Henry 138 Crawford, Hugh 138 Crawford, James 191 Crawford, Margaret 138 Crawford, William 192, 193 Cumming, Adam 39 Cumming, Ann 180, 295 Cumming, Christina 39 Cumming, Helen 12 Cumming, James 158, 159 Cumming, Mary 39 Cumming, Robert 39, 94 Currie, Catherine 84 Dalgleish, Simon 294 Dalzell, Janet 130 Dick, Alexander 221, 226, 268 Dick, Ann 157 Dick, Eliza Kemp 226 Dick, George 221 Dick, James 28 Dick, John 28, 221 Dickson, Mary 29 Dobbie, Helen 162 Dobbie, Janet 46 Douglas, Agnes 277 Dow, Helen 202 Downs, Eliza 273 Downs, John 273 Drysdale, Helen 269, 270 Duncan, James 56, 57 Duncan, Mary 41 Duncanson, Elizabeth 186 Duncanson, George 220 Duncanson, Isabella 198 Duncanson, John 32, 187 Duncanson, Mary 32, 220 Duncanson, William 43, 75 Dunn, John 59 Dunn, Michael 156 Dunn, Murray 59 Espie, William 104 Ferguson, Cornelius 234 Ferguson, Thomas 234

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Ferrier, Alexander 157 Ferrier, Annie 157 Ferrier, James 157 Ferrier, Jeannie Kemp 157 Finlayson, Annie 82 Fish, Catherine 132 Fish, George 31, 34 Fish, Mary 132, 135 Fish, Mary Ann 258 Fish, Thomas 34 Galloway, Alexander 298 Galloway, Helen 298 Galloway, Robert 298 Galloway, Thomas 298 Gardner, Anne 88 Gardner, Helen 264 Gardner, Helen Cathie 88 Gardner, Janet 87, 88 Gardner, John 87, 88 Gardner, Margaret 88, 93 Gardner, Peter 88 Gardner, William 198 Gehrcke, Adolph Henry 65 Gehrcke, Helen 65 Gehrcke, Peter 65 Gehrcke, Walter 65 Gemmell, Agnes 106 Gemmell, Maryann Hay 34 Gibney, Hugh 204 Gibney, Mary 204 Gibney, William 204 Gilchrist, Helen 133 Gilchrist, John 133 Gilchrist, Robert D A 133 Gilfillan, Alexander 14 Gilfillan, James 13, 249 Gilfillan, Janet 296 Gillespie, Elizabeth 109 Gilmour, Allan 127 Glen, James Clas 3 Graham, Alexander 196 Graham, Barbara 247 Graham, Ann 55 Graham, Catherine 63 Graham, Ceatren 64 Graham, David 196 Graham, Helen 269

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Graham, John 21, 269, 270 Graham, Mary 21 Graham, Ogilvie 143 Graham, Robert 269 Grant, Charles 32 Grant, Jack 32 Grant, Mary Duncanson 32 Hall, George 115 Hall, James 115 Hall, Lizzie 115 Hardie, David 5 Hardie, Eleanor 230 Hardie, John 230 Hardie, Thomas 171 Harlow, Mary Ann 266 Harman, James 258 Harrower, Helen 115 Harrower, Margaret 84 Harrower, Robert 84 Hendry, Janet 144 Henry, Isabella 288 Heugh, Agnes 151 Heugh, Janet Bald 6 Heugh, James 151 Heugh, Jane McGeachan 151 Heugh, John 46, 151 Heugh, Margaret McTaggart 151 Heugh, Robert 151 Heugh, Walter 151 Heugh, William 46, 151 Higgin, David 113 Higgin, Janet 113 Higgins, Janet 116 Hodge, Agnes 208 Hodge, Lilias 206 Hodge, Malcolm 206 Hodge, Robert 207 Higgins, William 114 Hodge, Catherine 206 Hodge, Jane 205 Hodge, Janet 206 Hodge, John 206 Hodge, Robert 206 Hodge, William 206, 284 Hotchkies, Agnes 109 Hotchkies, Christina 234 Hotchkies, Cornelius 109

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Hotchkies, George 109 Hotchkies, Jane 109 Hotchkies, Peter 109 Hume, Catherine Ann 95 Hunter, John 132 Hutton, Agnes 148 Hutton, Alexander 148 Hutton, Andrew 18 Hutton, Ann 23, 82 Hutton, Ann Boyd 223 Hutton, Annie Jane Baxter 91 Hutton, Archibald 286 Hutton, Elizabeth 156 Hutton, George 82 Hutton, James 82, 224 Hutton, Capt. James 82 Hutton, Janet 10, 286 Hutton, Jeanie Clark 91 Hutton, John 9, 222, 223, 233 Hutton, Capt. John 82 Hutton, Maggie 82 Hutton, Margaret 148 Hutton, Mary 75, 123 Hutton, Robert 9, 91 Hynd, Lewis 135 Irvine, Agnes 213 Irvine, Margaret 250 Jack, John 250 Jack, Thomas 250 Jamieson, Agnes 274 Jarvie, Helen 137 Jeffrey, Alexander 283 Jeffrey, James 200 Jeffrey, Margaret 18, 200 Jeffrey, Thomas 199 Johnston, Ann 53 Johnston, Jane Arthur 53 Johnston, John 53 Johnston, Thomas 259, 278 Jones, Christina 89 Kemp, Elizabeth 65 Kemp, Hugh 60 Kemp, John 60 Kemp, James 26, 157 Kemp, John 26, 27 Kemp. Robert 26 Kemp, W 227

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Kemp, William 25 Kennedy, Elizabeth 236 Kennedy, Janet 236 Kennedy, Robert 236 Kennedy, Thomas 236 Kennedy, William 236 Kidd, Agnes 259 Kidd, George 6 Kidd, Henry 259 Kincaid, Marion 143 Kirkwood, Alexander 51 Kirkwood, Maggie 51 Kirkwood, Margaret Bennet 51 Kirkwood, William 51 Laird, Alexander 254 Laird, Grace 254 Laird, Isabella 76 Laird, James 254 Laird, Janet 297 Laird, Jean 76 Lawson, Catherine 54 Learmonth, Catherine 273 Learmonth, David Snedden 95 Learmonth, Jane 138 Learmonth, John 95 Learmonth, Mary 298 Learmonth, Mary Ann 95 Leishman, J. 272 Leishman, Janet 60 Liddell, Mary 21 Liddell, William 217 Low, David 146 Malcolm, Archibald 105, 121 Malcolm, George 120 Malcolm, Jane 206 Malcolm, Janet 252 Malcolm, Jean 179, 207 Malcolm, John 105 Malcolm, Lillias 153 Manuell, Alexander 119 Martin, Janet 296 Martin, Marion 68 Martin, Nathaniel 68, 69 Martin, William 296 Matson, Helen 282 McAra, Margaret 28 McArthur, Alexander 229

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MacArthur, Charles 228 McArthur, Robert 30 McClelland, Agnes 284 McCulloch, James 101, 102 McCulloch, Janet 101 McCulloch, Peter 101 McDonald, Elizabeth 79 McDonald, Daniel 37 McDonald, James 242 McEwan, Barbara 242 MacGachen, Rev John 1 McIntyre, Archibald 271 McIntyre, James 271 McIntyre, Joseph 271 McIsaac, Isabella 274 McKay, Agnes 146 MacKay, James 233A MacKay, Jane 233A McKay, Janet 100 McKay, William 89 McKenzie, Kenneth 231 McKenzie, Mary 231 McKenzie, May Fish 231 Mackie, Anne 16, 17 Mackie, William 111 McLaren, Agnes 262 McLaren, James 262 McLaren, John Rev 73 McLaren, Mary 73 McLaren, William 262 McLay, Ann 66 McLay, Robert 29 McLay, Thomas 190 McLellan, Agnes 266 McLellan, Richard 266 McLuckie, John 50, 97 McLuckie, Margaret 51, 233 McNellan, Jean 125, 126 MacNicoll, Archibald 280 McQueen, Peter 167 McQueen, Susan 167 McTaggart, Margaret 7 McTaggart, William 172 Meikle, John 232 Meikle. Thomas 166 Mercer, Ann H 91 Michael, Annie 2

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Michael, James 2 Millar, John 153 Millar, Leith 189 Millar, Margaret 6 Miller, Archibald 123 Miller, Jeanie G 123 Mirk, Elizabeth 49 Mirk, Helen 31, 34, 72 Mirk, John 185 Mitchell, Agnes 255, 256 Mitchell, Alexander 293 Mitchell, Christina 142 Mitchell, Isabella 41 Mitchell, James 214 Mitchell, James Sanderson 293 Mitchell, Jane Isabel 293 Mitchell, Jessie 293 Mitchell, John 41, 215 Mitchell, Peter 41 Mitchell, William Sanderson 293 Morrice, Janet 187, 220 Morrison, Betty 188 Murray, George A 239 Murray, H A 239 Neil, Jean 152 Neilson, Lillias 154 Nicol, Elizabeth 210 Nicol, Helen 210 Nicol, James 209, 210 Nicol, Jane 13 Nicol, Janet 178 Nicol, Mary 249 Nicolson, Eliza Mary Stewart 279 Nicolson, Michael 279 Orr, Jane 132 Oswald, Margaret 230 Overend, George A 33 Overend, Sherriff 33 Overend, Thomas 33 Pate, Jane 74 Paterson, Ann H 91 Paterson, John 250 Paterson, William 250 Paxton, Alexander 274 Peddie, Euphemia 291 Peddie, Janet 171 Porteous, Sarah 235

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Potter, Alexander 19 Potter, Lewis 113 Primrose, Alexander 66 Primrose, James 66 Rae, Agnes 173 Rae, Elizabeth 190 Rae, Janet 165 Rae, Mary 173 Rankine, Janet 128 Raston, Cathrine 114 Redfern, Sarah A 8 Rintoul, William 150 Ritchie, David 38 Ritchie, George 38 Robertson, Annie 294 Robertson, David 186 Robertson, Isabella 294 Robertson, Janet 186 Robertson, Jessie Scott 140 Robertson, John 186, 294 Robertson, Kate 294 Robertson, Margaret 20 Robertson, Mary 186 Robertson, Walter 186 Robertson. William Scott 141 Roger, Catherine 131 Ross, Alexander 183 Ross, Ann 155, 223 Ross, Elizabeth 83 Ross, John 184 Ross, Robert 155 Ross, William 155, 181, 182 Roy, John 100 Rue, Elizabeth 250 Russell, Christina 214 Russell, David 16 Russell, Elizabeth 33 Russell, George 15, 16 Russell, James 16 Russell, Jane 15, 16 Russell, Jessie 16 Russell, John 16 Russell, Logan 16 Russell, Peter 16 Russell, Thomas 16, 17 Russell, William 16 Samuel, Agnes 97

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Scobbie, Janet 96 Scobbie, Jean 233 Scobbie, John A 255, 256 Scobbie, Margaret 290 Scobbie, Mary 283 Scobbie, Michael 282, 283 Scott, Alexander D 243 Scott, Janet 140 Scott, Robert 243 Sharp, Hugh 241 Sharp, Janet 267 Sharp, John 106 Shearer, Janet 243 Simpson, Margaret 196 Smith, Adam 75 Smith, Agnes 58 Smith, Helen 176 Smith, Janet 169 Smith, Jessie 4 Smith, Lillias 4 Smith, Mary 166 Smith, Robert 47 Somerville, Andrew 140 Scott, Eliza 141 Sneddon, Russell 179 Somerville, james 141 Somerville, James Rev 140, 141 Somerville, John 141 Somerville, Margaret 140 Spence, Hugh 2 Steel, Andrew 197, 216 Steel, Helen 197 Steel, James 197, 216 Steel, Janet 37 Steel, John 197, 216 Steel, John McKenzie 197 Stein, Mary 59 Stenhouse, John 222, 223, 247 Steven, Jean 194 Stewart, Andrew 165 Stewart, Catherine 265 Stewart, Charlotte 38 Stewart, Andrew 61 Stewart, Robert 61 Stewart, Walter 61 Stirling, Thomas Graham 145 Stoddart, John 295

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Stuart, Helen 185 Tagget, Catherine 191 Tagget, Christian 61 Tagget, John 194 Tait, Mary 271 Tapsfield, Benjamin 225 Tawse, Catherine 139 Taylor, Agnes 19 Taylor, Alexander 70, 85 Taylor, Eleanor 110 Taylor, Elizabeth 234 Taylor, Henry 70 Taylor, James 131, 237 Taylor, Jean 43 Taylor, Jemima 85 Taylor, Joan 238 Taylor, John 110, 152, 239, 237, 238, 288 Taylor, Marion 199 Taylor, Sophia 237 Taylor, Susan 155, 240 Taylor, William 131, 136, 137 Thomas, Jean 201 Thomson, Isabella 52 Tole, Margaret 78 Tosh, Henry 117 Toshack, Catherine 26 Touch, Margaret 121 Towers, James 245 Towers, Michael 12 Turnbull, Agnes 172 Turnbull, Alexander 63, 64, 147 Turnbull, Catherine 68 Turnbull, James 139 Turnbull, Janet 236 Turnbull, Jean M 139 Turnbull, John 139 Turnbull, M A P 139 Turnbull, Marion 139 Turnbull, Mary 150 Turnbull, Peter 139 Turnbull, Robert 63, 107 Turnbull, William 107, 267 Valance, Margaret 131 Waddell, Jean 136 Wales, Elizabeth 54 Walker, Ann 124 Walker, Christina 7

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Walker, Elizabeth 32 Walker, Elliot G 7 Walker, James 8, 265 Walker, Janet 111, 112 Walker, Margaret 7, 32 Walker, Muir 154 Walker, Robert 32, 265 Walker, Robert H 7 Walker, Thomas G 7 Walls, James 169 Watson, Elizabeth 163, 233A, 241 Watson, James 208 Watson, Janet 229 Watson, Jean 57 Watson, William 58 Watt, Thomas 149 Watt, Jean 218 Weir, William 118 Welsh, Isabella 254 Welsh, Margaret 203 White, Alexander 201 White, Grace 107 White, Jane 9 White, Mary 201 Whyt, Alexander 202 Williamson, Elisabeth 14 Williamson, Mary 25 Wilson, Margaret 71 Wilson, Thomas 189, 190 Wright, Alexander 170, 287 Wright, Elizabeth 177 Wright, Elizabeth Rae 177 Wright, James 177 Wright, John 170 Wright, Margaret 72, 185 Wright, Peter 72 Wright, William 72, 185 Young, Margaret 133 Young, Mary Duncan McKenzie 41 Young, Robert 275, 277 Younger, Arthur 203 Younger, Robert 203 Yule, John 188

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Bibliography

Bailey, G.B. 1999 ‘The Graveyards of Falkirk District: Part 5 – Airth Old Parish Churchyard,’ Calatria 13, 1-46. Mitchell, J.F. & 1972 Monumental Inscriptions (Pres-1855) in East Mitchell, S. Stirlingshire. RCAHMS 1963 Stirlingshire: An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments.

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