Monday, 15 August 2011

William Cairns and family


The text on this richly decorated stone reads:


Here lyes

William Cairns

son to Robert Cairns who

died the XV of

may 1723 years

and of his age

the....??.....year


And on the other side of the stone there is more text. It reads as follows:


Sacred

to

the memory of

James Stevenson, Roadmaker

who died Nov 9

1795

Isobel Mitchell his spouse

and James Christian and Isobel (??, and educated guess, it could also say Isorit?)

their children also.


And further down:


James Stevenson mason

and

Margaret Stevenson

Their children are interned

here.


This stone is positioned next to the fallen stone shown here, of James Cairns. I'm not sure how James Stevenson is related to them.

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