lifelii p" I (SCOTTISH RECORD SOCIETY, INDEX TO THE REGISTER OF BURIALS IN THE CHURCHYARD OF RESTALRIG, 1728-1854. c EDITED BY FRANCIS J. GRANT, W.S., ROTHESAY HERALD AND LYON CLERK.- EDINBURGH : t) hos PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY BY JAMES SKINNER & COMPANY 1908. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY JAMES SKINNER ANU COMPANY. 54- PREFACE. The village of Restalrig is situated in the parish of South Leith and on the eastern outskirts of the city of Edinburgh. It is a place of great antiquity, and in pre-Reformation times its collegiate church was the parish church of Leith. At the Reformation the church, which was dedicated to St. Triduana, was ordered by the General Assembly to be -razed and utterly cast down as a monument of idolatry, and the parishioners ordained to repair to St. Mary's Church at Leith, a sentence which was only too faithfully carried out. The edifice remained a ruin till the year 1836, when the present chapel of ease was constructed out of its remains. Though ceasing to be a place of worship after 1560, the churchyard continued to be a place of sepulchre, and after the disestablish- ment of Episcopacy in 1689 was used by the members of that body as a place of burial when denied the right to conduct service in other places. In 1726, with the sanction of John, Lord Balmerino, and James, Lord Coupar, his son, the proprietors of the Barony, the Friendly Society of Restalrig was constituted, and to its care the ruined church and church- yard were made over. The first members of this Society were Messrs. Harry Allan, writer; Charles Allan, surgeon; Mrs. Wood, heiress of and of the heirs of Warriston portioner Restalrig ; James Elphinston ; heritor heritor Thomas James Telfer, ; James Robertson, ; Wood, farmer William Lochend farmer ; John Fulton, ; Oliphant, farmer, ; farmer Alexander James Abercrombie, ; James Coustoun, farmer, Dickson, farmer, and Patrick Petrie, schoolmaster. To these Robert Maxwell, in Jock's Lodge, and James Robertson, in Restalrig, were subsequently added. The Society provided a set of mortcloths, and from time to time fixed a scale of charges for their use at funerals. The amount of these fees has been duly recorded since 1728, and from this source the index now printed, which includes all entries to 31st December 1854, when the compulsory registration of deaths came into force, has been made. The information contained in the Register has been supplemented from the monumental inscriptions, and also, in some cases, from the obituary in the Scots notices Magazine. , After the building of the barracks at Piershill in 1793 ^^^ churchyard became the place of interment of many soldiers of the cavalry regiments which have been stationed there. For a fuller accout of this interesting place the reader is referred to the Collegiate Churches of Midlothian^ published by the Bannatyne Club, and a paper in the Proceedings of the Scottish Ecclesiological Society for 1907-8, by the Rev. William Burnett, the present minister, to whose courtesy the Society are indebted for the index now issued. INDEX TO THE REGISTER OF BURIALS IN THE CHURCHYARD OF RESTALRIG, 1728-1854. Note— This date is that of the Interment. Where the letter M. is prefixed thereto it indicates there is a monument. Abercrombie, James [farmer, Restalrig], his child 5 Feb. 1730 „ James, his child 30 Jan. 1735 „ James, his child 3 Nov. 1735 „ Mr. James, in Calton 29 Feb. 1776 „ Mrs. Janet 28 June 1791 „ Miss Magdaline, daughter of the deceased James Aber- crombie, farmer, aged 85 years, buried near Mr. Grants' tomb, north-west side of burying ground 10 Oct. 1817 „ Miss Margaret, died the 6 Nov. 18 18, and buried near Mr. Grants' tomb, north-west side of burying ground, aged 91 years. Daughter of the deceased Mr. James Abercrombie, farmer 10 Nov. ] „ Mrs. Aboyne, Charles, Lord, his child child Adair, , Addical, Alley, a soldier's child, aged 5 days Adirby, Robert, 6 Dragoon Guards, his female child died of consumption, aged 1'% years Aikman, Euphan, wife of James Bell, Lochend, aged 58 years „ John, from Lochend, aged 89 years from ,, Margaret, Lochend Anslie, Jean Airth, Alexander, his child Aitchison, Agnes, spouse to Mr. Thomas Wood, surgeon in Edinburgh Aitken, Andrew, his child „ Andrew, in Restalrig, his daughter „ Andrew, younger, in Restalrig, his daughter, Ann, who died aged 6 months and 8 days „ Andrew, senior, aged 68 years „ Andrew, aged 73 years, died on the 24 „ Andrew, Restalrig. See Robertson, Janet. „ Corporal, his child, aged 15 months „ Drummond, his child, aged 6 years „ Drummond, his child „ Drummond, his wife „ Helen, aged 68 years „ James, his still-born male child „ Margaret, aged 85 years, relict of the deceased Peter Erskin „ Robert, gardener, Abercorn Place, Jock's Lodge, his still- born child Alcorn, John, his two infants in one coffin, from Portobello Alison, Alexander, merchant in Leith, died 9, in family tomb M „ Alexander, Mr., St. Anthony Place, Leith, his still-born female child Index to the Register of Burials Alison, David, aged 13 years, died on the 13, son of Mr. James Alison, merchant, Leith, interred in the family tomb M. 18 Sept. 1828 „ James, merchant in Leith, aged 67 years, died on the 25 M. 30 July 1836 „ James, Leith. See Bell, Ann. „ Mr. John, aged 65 years, brother of Mr. James and Alex- ander Alison, merchants, Leith, died 9 M. 11 July 1827 „ Robert, aged 3 years, son of Mr. Alison, Leith 18 F^eb. 1820 „ Thomas Bell, son of Mr James Alison, Leith, aged 3 10 months, died M. 15 Jan. 1816 „ William, a child, aged 5 months, son of Mr. [James] Alison, Leith M. 24 Mar. 1820 Allan, Adam, his child, from the Bank Closs, Edinburgh, aged 13 months 8 Oct. 181 1 „ Andrew, his child 11 May 1752 „ Ann, aged 14 days, daughter of a soldier of the 7 Dragoons 18 Sept. 1813 „ Elizabeth, spouse to Robert Grant, in Leith M. 7 Apr. 1769 „ Mr. Henry, aged 38 years 12 Feb. 1763 „ James, from Jock's Lodge Toll, aged 55 years 28 Jan. 1802 „ John, painter, in Edinburgh, aged 42 years it Apr. 1765 „ Rev. John, Crossgates. See Wright, Margaret. „ Mrs., in Restalrig, relict to the deceased Mr. Allan, minister, her daughter Johan Allen, aged 10 months 2 Mar. 181 1 „ Katherine, Abbeyhill 31 Oct. 1780 „ Madam 20 Nov. 1739 „ Madam 24 Jan. 1749 „ Mr., in Abbeyhill, his wife 24 Sept. 1778 „ Private, 4 Dragoon Guards, his still-born child 23 Feb. 1846 „ Richard 20 May 1754 Ammus, George, thatcher, in Restalrig, aged 45 years 10 Feb. 1805 „ George, his relict, aged 48 years 20 Mar. 1805 Amos, Margaret, daughter of Mr. George Amos, in Restalrig, aged 5 years 8 Jan. 1799 of in „ Somervile, son Mr. George Amos, Restalrig, aged 10 years 5 Mar. 1798 Anchrum, Mrs. 28 June 1735 Anderson, Francis, a soldier from the barracks, aged 27 years 3 Oct. 181 r „ Henrieta, in Restalrig, aged 32 years 16 July 1809 „ Isabella, aged 28 years, wife of Mr. Adam Smith, hairdresser, Leith, died i M. 6 Jan. 1837 „ Janet. See Robertson, Findlay, in Restalrigg. „ Jasper, his child 6 Dec. 1727 „ Jasper 14 Sept. 1740 „ Mary, a poor widow, died at Jock's Lodge on 11, from infirmity, aged 87 years 15 July 1838 „ Robert, from Jock's Lodge, died 6, from infirmity, aged 75 years 8 Dec. 1837 Andrews, Henry, a soldier of the Greys, aged 18 years 21 Dec. 1807 „ John, paymaster-sergeant. See Barr, Letitia. „ Sarah Ann, aged 9 months, daughter of John Andrews, private 9th Lancers, died 16 17 Sept. 1836 Ardkinlas [Sir James Campbell of Aberuchill] 13 May 1754 Arinel, James, son of Matthew Arinel, Piershill Barracks, died of consumption, aged 3 months 29 May 1844 Armsley, Rebecca, wife of William Armstrong, from Jock's Lodge, of consumption Saturday, 24 Jan. 1840 Armstrong, Ann, spouse of Mr. Alexander Burnet, merchant, Leith, aged 50 years 3 Oct. 1820 „ Ann Jean, aged 6 weeks, belonging to a farrier of the 6th of Inniskilling Dragoons 28 Aug. 1818 „ David, a soldier's child of the Inniskilling Dragoons, aged 3 years 10 Nov. 1818 in the Churchyard of Restalrig. Armstrong, George, his wife 5 Feb. 1728 „ George, his child 31 Jan. 1729 „ George, his child 17 Dec. 1745 „ George 24 Jan. 1749 „ James, his child 2 Apr. 1772 „ James, in Leith, his daughter, Mary 19 Feb. 1774 „ James, in Leith, his spouse 22 P'eb. 1774 „ James, Leith, his child 17 Apr. 1774 „ Mr. James, aged 66 years 12 Apr. 1799 „ Jean, her grandchild 20 Nov. 1765 „ Jean, Restalrig 14 Aug. 1775 „ Rev. John, died 21, aged 26 years, son of Mr. James Armstrong 24 July 1797 „ Widow, her child 21 May 1749 „ William, Jock's Lodge. See Armsley, Rebecca. Arthur, Robert, Spring Gardens, died of an inward trouble, aged 64 years i June 1843 Ashfield, James, a soldier's child of the 6 Inniskilling Dragoons, aged 2 years 21 Feb. 1819 Ashton, Mrs. 13 Jan. 1737 Atherley, Maryanne, daughter of Samuel Atherley, Piershill Barracks, died of convulsions, aged 5 months Mar. 1844 Austin, Joseph, Piershill, died of scarlet fever, aged 25 years 18 Oct. 1851 Avie, Thomas, aged 2^ months, died 14, from Piershill Barracks 16 Jan. 1833 Aylwood, Alfred, of Piershill, died of scarlet fever, aged 5 years 20 Oct. 1851 Badden, Samuel, of 3 Light Dragoons, aged 39 years i Apr. 1832 Baillie, Alexander, of Dochfour. See Smith, Sarah. Bain, Godbold, from the Barracks, aged 16 years 7 Dec. 1797 Baird, John, his servant 31 Jan. 1741 Baker, Samuel, a soldier's child, of the 6 Dragoons, aged 6 years i Feb.