Dear Listers
No -- I'm not referring to yesterday's rugby match between Ireland and Scotland, at Murrayfield, more of a modern day battlefield ...
Spotted as a new information source on Ancestry.com …..
All Scotland, Burial Monument Inscriptions, 1507-2019
Could be very helpful if you’re chasing after folks who were (or may have been) buried in Scotland.
I tried a quick search using generic terms like “Londonderry”, “Tyrone” and “Donegal”. Several entries popped up, including (as a taste):
CONWAY Cookstown, co. Tyrone
GILMOUR Londonderry
MAXWELL Birdstown, co.Donegal
MITCHELL Armagh
QUIN Creggen House, Cookstown, co. Tyrone
Extract examples below.
Hope this helps someone. It’s very special when we find details of an Irish Colleen who was born 1797/98, or even in 1830 …..
Dave Mitchell
Cape Town, South Africa
Robert MACLAGAN
Dean Cemetery 2, Midlothian, Scotland
In memory of General Robert MACLAGAN , Royal Engineers
B. in Edinburgh 14.12.1820 D. in Edinburgh 22.4.1894.
Also Patricia His Wife, Daughter of Patrick GILMOUR, Londonderry 17.6.1830 - 1.11.1907
Andrew CAMPBELL
Mauchline Churchyard, Ayrshire, Scotland
Sacred to the Memory of Robert Campbell of Auchmannoch 27.1.1782 - 19.8.1857.
Also His Brother Major General, Andrew CAMPBELL, H.E.I.C.S. of Auchmannoch and Avisyard
D. At Cheltenham 25.12.1860 Aged 77y
and Nicola Anne Campbell Wife of the Above Major General, Andrew Campbell Only Daughter of Col. Richard MAXWELL , Birdstown, Co Donegal D. At Cheltenham 5.4.1868 Aged 70y
John Owen CONWAY
Sacred to the Memory of John Owen Conway, Clothier, Edinburgh D. 15.12.1843 Aged 45y and James His Only Son D. 15.5.1822 Aged 9m. Also Mary Ellen His Only Daughter D. 15.3.1870 Aged 46y.
Also Ellen Eleanor Conway His Widow and Last Surviving Child of the Late James CONWAY, Merchant, Cookstown By His Wife Jane QUIN of Creggen House Near Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland D. 23.11.1882 Aged 85y.
May They Rest in Peace
Tombstone photo included
James MITCHELL
Tombstone in Kilrenny Churchyard, Fife, Scotland
Erected in memory of James MITCHELL
D. at Armagh, Ireland 1.8.1883 Aged 46.
Also His Wife Mary Wilson D. in Belfast 16.3.1921 Aged 76
Thanks Dave,
This is interesting especially the reference to the rather prominent Maxwell family of Birdstown, Co. Donegal. Here are several extractions from the Londonderry newspapers should a descendant come upon them:
Regards, Len Swindley
Dec 3 1822
Died on the 20th ult., at Birdstown in the 79th year of his age, Richard Maxwell, Esq., late Lieut. Colonel of the Donegal Militia (Londonderry Journal)
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Jul 9 1836
[Married] On the 28th ult., at Bath, Lieutenant Colonel Campbell, Bombay Artillery, of Avisyards, county of Ayr, Scotland, to Nicola Anne Maxwell, daughter of the late Richard Maxwell, Esq., of Birdstown, county of Donegal (Londonderry Sentinel)
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Jul 30 1842
[Married] July 20th, at St. Peter's Church, by the Rev. Edward Synge, P.B. Maxwell, Esq., fourth son of the Rev. P.B. Maxwell, of Birdstown, county Donegal, to Frances D. Synge, daughter of the late Frances Synge, Esq., of Glanmore, county Wicklow (Londonderry Sentinel)
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Nov 25 1843
[Birth] On Monday, the 20th inst., in Upper Gordon Street, London, the lady of P. Benson Maxwell, Esq., of a son (Londonderry Sentinel)
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Jan 10 1851
[Married] On the 4th inst., at St. Mary's, Cheltenham, by the Rev. Duncan Gilby, Captain G.V. Maxwell, 88th Connaught Rangers, son of the Rev. P.B. Maxwell, of Birdstown, Londonderry (sic), to Charlotte Wilhelmina, daughter of the late John Kearney, Esq., of county Kilkenny, and grand-daughter of the late Very Rev. Cadogan Keatinge, Dean of Clogher (Londonderry Sentinel)
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Aug 1 1851
[Married] On 30th July, at St. Mark's Church, Armagh, by the Rev. William Maclean, Rector of Tynan, Stewart Maxwell, Esq., son of the Rev. P.B. Maxwell, Birdstown, county Donegal, to Annie, third daughter of William Paton, Esq., Armagh (Londonderry Sentinel)
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May 14 1852
[Married] In the Cathedral of Derry, on the 11th inst., by the Very Rev. the Dean of Derry, the Rev. Charleton Maxwell, Rector of Lower Badoney, son of the Rev. P.B. Maxwell, of Birdstown, county Donegal, to Emily Augusta Grace Ponsonby, youngest daughter of the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Derry and Raphoe (Londonderry Sentinel)
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Aug 27 1852
[Died] At Frankfort, on the 13th August, after a few days illness, Hester Emily, wife of the Rev. P.B. Maxwell, of Birdstown, county Donegal (Londonderry Sentinel)
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Jan 29 1867
[Died] January 23, at Bath, Rev. P.B. Maxwell, of Birdstown, county Donegal, aged 87 years (Londonderry Sentinel)
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Dear Listers
No -- I'm not referring to yesterday's rugby match between Ireland and Scotland, at Murrayfield, more of a modern day battlefield ...
Spotted as a new information source on Ancestry.com …..
All Scotland, Burial Monument Inscriptions, 1507-2019
Could be very helpful if you’re chasing after folks who were (or may have been) buried in Scotland.
I tried a quick search using generic terms like “Londonderry”, “Tyrone” and “Donegal”. Several entries popped up, including (as a taste):
CONWAY Cookstown, co. Tyrone
GILMOUR Londonderry
MAXWELL Birdstown, co.Donegal
MITCHELL Armagh
QUIN Creggen House, Cookstown, co. Tyrone
Extract examples below.
Hope this helps someone. It’s very special when we find details of an Irish Colleen who was born 1797/98, or even in 1830 …..
Dave Mitchell
Cape Town, South Africa
Robert MACLAGAN
Dean Cemetery 2, Midlothian, Scotland
In memory of General Robert MACLAGAN, Royal Engineers
B. in Edinburgh 14.12.1820 D. in Edinburgh 22.4.1894.
Also Patricia His Wife, Daughter of Patrick GILMOUR, Londonderry 17.6.1830 - 1.11.1907
Andrew CAMPBELL
Mauchline Churchyard, Ayrshire, Scotland
Sacred to the Memory of Robert Campbell of Auchmannoch 27.1.1782 - 19.8.1857.
Also His Brother Major General, Andrew CAMPBELL, H.E.I.C.S. of Auchmannoch and Avisyard
D. At Cheltenham 25.12.1860 Aged 77y
and Nicola Anne Campbell Wife of the Above Major General, Andrew Campbell Only Daughter of Col. Richard MAXWELL, Birdstown, Co Donegal D. At Cheltenham 5.4.1868 Aged 70y
John Owen CONWAY
Sacred to the Memory of John Owen Conway, Clothier, Edinburgh D. 15.12.1843 Aged 45y and James His Only Son D. 15.5.1822 Aged 9m. Also Mary Ellen His Only Daughter D. 15.3.1870 Aged 46y.
Also Ellen Eleanor Conway His Widow and Last Surviving Child of the Late James CONWAY, Merchant, Cookstown By His Wife Jane QUIN of Creggen House Near Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland D. 23.11.1882 Aged 85y.
May They Rest in Peace
Tombstone photo included
James MITCHELL
Tombstone in Kilrenny Churchyard, Fife, Scotland
Erected in memory of James MITCHELL
D. at Armagh, Ireland 1.8.1883 Aged 46.
Also His Wife Mary Wilson D. in Belfast 16.3.1921 Aged 76