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MairiD
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Cummings/Cummens grave---Dysart
« on: Sunday 25 October 09 22:16 UTC (UK) »
I have found a 'Calon Cummens' (Colin Cummings) in the OPR deaths of 1829, Dysart. He was a sailor of St Clairtown and buried in ground belonging at that time to an Andrew Greig (a steamboat proprietor who was buried at Dunnikier Churchyard much later- in 1862).
Other members of Colin's family were later interred in the same grave in Dysart. (Notes are added in 1833 and 1842 to the entry for Colin and in 1854 and 1859 entries under the name Nicol refer to the same grave.)
Fairly precise directions are given as to the position of the grave ie. 'layeng from the North Dyke 6 feet and from the East Dyke 1 foot'.
There is no headstone mentioned in the Mitchells MI (pre-1855) book under Dysart Barony Churchyard or Saint Serf's.
Might I presume this OPR record refers to St. Denis interments, this being the graveyard that had some headstones salvaged before being concreted over and made into a children's play area?

Another clue lies in an entry for 1859, above that of Colin's grandaughter. It reads 'Laying South from the Gard House 25 feet........

Are there 'guard houses' at either Dysart Barony or St. Serf's?
MairiD
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