Thursday, 30 August 2012

Marion Ritchie and the Renwick family

The bottom of this gravestone can no longer be deciphered and I'm indebted once again to Sheila A. Scott's book Peeblesshire Monumental Inscriptions-pre 1855 for the details of the last person mentioned. Here is the full text from the top:

Erected
by
John and Archibald Renwick
in memory of
Marion Ritchie, their Mother
who died 13th January 1845
aged 62 years
also
William Renwick their brother
who died 1826 aged 6
also
Thomas Renwick
died 1863 aged 85.

I strongly suspect Thomas Renwick was their father and the husband of Marion although I don't know for sure as moss has covered the actual inscription at the bottom.
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