HEADSTONES in Kirkcaldy Cemeteries(Part 2)

[NorrieG]

Hi  again  still can't find Ffrench  it in my headstone index for Bennochy
checked 1250 headstone photos for Bennochy to see if  it was not the
 main inscription as my index is based on the  2 main names
but Ffrench is listed in  Scottish Monumental Inscriptions for bennochy
  you can purchase the Cd for £11.25
sorry that I can't be of more help
Norrie

[guess98224]

Norrie, I have a friend who owns an extremely old letter asking a friend to the funeral of his wife,
Elizabeth (Betty) McGillm d December 25/29 1773. Her husband was Andrew Cowan. I don't know where he is, but she is buried in the Kirkcaldy Churchyard. If there's anything you have on either of them, or even a photo of a grave, that would be wonderful.

Thank you so much.

Patty

[NorrieG]

I have a friend who owns an extremely old letter asking a friend to the funeral of his wife,
Elizabeth (Betty) McGillm d December 25/29 1773. Her husband was Andrew Cowan
Hi Patty this is all I can find

Elizabeth Cowan alias McGill abode Kirkcaldy
died 25.12.1773 , burial 29.12.1773
wife of Andrew Cowan ( Merchant) late Provost of Kirkcaldy

Family Search gives
 Andrew Cowan & Elizabeth  McGill married  4.4 1773 Kirkcaldy
Therefore only married 8 months

there is no headstone in old Kirkyard Kirkcaldy

Andrew was provost of Kirkcaldy   1769 to 1772, 1788 to 1779
1792 and Andrew Cowan died 2.1.1793 ( don't know where buried )

this could be her birth
•   Elizabeth Mcgill  christening date29 Apr 1742
•   christening place KIRKCALDY,FIFE,SCOTLAND
•   father's name John Mcgill

Picture  of Old Kirk Cemetery
Norrie

[guess98224]

Norrie,

Thank you so much for the additional information! Maybe she died in cb. I know he lived long after she died.

Patty

[Morris2013]

Hi Norrie,

I'm looking for some Adamson burials in Dysart and Gallatown. Perhaps you may have some amongst your records

William Adamson (1812 - 1884) and his wife
Mary Adamson ms Scott (1820 -1885)

children of William and Mary

Agnes Adamson (1863-1865)
Johan 'Anne' Adamson (1860 -1881)

Mary Adamson (1844-1913) lived in Dysart all her life but death registered in Kirkcaldy

David Adamson (1857-1942) lived in Gallatown but death registered in Kirkcaldy
Jane Adamson ms Beall ( wife of David Adamson ) (1857 -1919) Gallatown

John Adamson (1852-1907) lived in Dysart but death recorded in Kirkcaldy and Abbotshall

Regards

Morris

[NorrieG]

I'm looking for some Adamson burials in Dysart and Gallatown. Perhaps you may have some amongst your records
William Adamson (1812 - 1884) and his wife
Mary Adamson ms Scott (1820 -1885)

Hi Morris sorry I can find no headstones for the above Adamson Family
in Dysart or Kirkcaldy, remember that in 1881 he was a farm labourer
and he died 4 years later, maybe no money for a stone.
in 1881 census there are 2 grandchildren David Ramsay 8 and
Mary Hutchison 3  who were there parents?

nothing for David Adamson or any of the other Children

Norrie

Norrie

[Morris2013]

Thanks Norrie

As you said they were probably not able to put up a stone.

The two grandchildren in the 1881 census are the children of William and Mary Adamson's daughter Mary who had 4 children but was never married. The 1881 Census is the only occasion when two of the children are recorded with different surnames, but living with their maternal grandparents....later they used their mother's name Adamson

'synchronicity' ?  Curiously I have just written a letter to Canada to a descendant of another of the 4 children

Thanks for your efforts

Morris

[cltidwell]

Hello Norrie!

I've got another request for you, this time a little more recent. I'm looking for the headstone of one "Charles Ross Gourlay". He was born in Kirkcaldy in 1917 to Esther Birrell Ross (b.1882-d.1962) and John Gourlay (b.1883). Was married to a Ms. B. Maddison, and died in Kirkcaldy in 1990. Unfortunately I haven't been able to track down the exact cemetery

Thanks for the Help! Cheers!
Chris

[NorrieG]

I'm looking for the headstone of one "Charles Ross Gourlay". He was born in Kirkcaldy in 1917 to Esther Birrell Ross (b.1882-d.1962) and John Gourlay (b.1883). Was married to a Ms. B. Maddison, and died in Kirkcaldy in 1990.

Hi Chris sorry nothing on the above, buth loads of Gourlay stones in the Kirkcaldy area
did John & Esther have any other children I could check?

Norrie