Sunday 4 March 2012

The Dunlop family




This is another of the more impressive memorial stones in the graveyard, and there are so many family members here that the stone has been divided in two colums to accommodate them all. I will start with the text on the left hand side. Here it is:

In memory of

Marion Dunlop

who died at Abington

8th Dec. 1860

aged 3 years and 4 months

also

John T. Dunlop

who died at Loanhead

11th June 1875 aged 8 years

also

Jessie A. Dunlop

who died at Loanhead

2nd December 1917

aged 56 years

also Jane Dunlop

who died at West Linton

27th January 1947

aged 91 years

also

A. Louden Dunlop

grandson of the said Alexander Dunlop

who died 6th may 1972




On the right hand side of the stone it reads:



Janet Brown


wife of Alexander Dunlop


who died at Loanhead


22nd April 1884


aged 51 years


the above


Alexander Dunlop


who died at Loanhead


25th June 1914(?)


aged 82 years


also


Walter R. Scott M.A.


his grandson who fell


in action near Yeres


12th June 1917


aged 24 years


also


Elizabeth W. W. Dunlop


who died at Glasgow


28th June 1962


aged 90 years


At the foot of the monument sits a black urn which says as best as I can tell:


also his wife (no idea whose wife!)


Polly Wai Seong


Dunlop


nee Tham


died 20 (?) October..............


I try as much as possible not to disturb anything in the graveyard even to read text better but I might give this urn another go in the summer to see if I can ascentain the exact dates on this urn.



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