LIBINDX
http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/mainmenu.asp lists John Kandich, prison governor and soldier in the Royal Regisment of Artillery, son of John Kandich, mason, Bishopmill, Elgin and Margaret Sim, who died on 10 June 1860 and is buried in Elgin Cathedral Kirkyard. There were obituaries in the Moray Advertiser and the Elgin Courant. He served in Mauritius and Jersey. He looks like a definite possibility to be the recipient of your snuff box.
You can view and download an image of his death certificate at modest cost at
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk The stone also commemorates John's mother Margaret Sim, James Kandich, mason, Bishopmill and his wife Margaret Thomson, and their children Janet and William, which is presumably where the original poster in this thread got the information in the first post that you have copied into yours.
I note with interest that in 1861 there is a family in King Street, Elgin (close to the Cathedral and to Abbey Street, where John K died), consisting of James Kandich, 44, Chelsea pensioner, born England, with wife Augusta, born Rothesay, and 3 children of whom the eldest was born in Rothesay and the other two in England.
Augusta Clement Lamont married James Kendich in Leith in 1850.
Augusta Lamont or Kandich, 75, died in Elgin in 1908. James Kandich, 83, died in Elgin in 1900. His death certificate will tell you who his parents were.
