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« on: Monday 19 March 12 20:10 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
We will be in Kilmun early June, if my family (Kerr) are not there I will have to look at the other cemeteries in the Dunoon area too. My Great Grandfather was a Minister in the Church of Scotland in Shapinsay, in the Orkneys, after he died in 1908, I believe the Church of Scotland Society of Sons and Daughters of the Clergy then aided my Great Grandmother with the education of their children. My 3 great aunts who retired in Kilmun were all school teachers - spending many years in Canada - they lived in a house called "Ferngrove" in Kilmun, I visited the still living Great Aunt there in the late 1970's. We went for lunch at the Ardentinny Hotel. Their brother - my grandfather was shipwrecked on the south Coast of Australia at end of 1908 on the "Falls of Halladale", he then stayed in Australia, and his 2 other brothers joined him out here. My great grandmother and 3 great aunts deaths were all registered in Dunoon. Unfortunately the Funeral Company in Dunoon (Bairds) who buried my last Great Aunt are no longer in business according to my on line search. So the search goes on!!