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Title: Canisbay Cemetery
Post by: forfarlass on Friday 09 September 16 15:18 BST (UK)
Hello

I wondered if anyone could suggest how I could obtain either a photo or inscription, of someone buried in Canisbay Cemetery?

Thank you very much
Title: Re: Canisbay Cemetery
Post by: kris47 on Friday 09 September 16 22:26 BST (UK)
try
http://www.oddquine.co.uk/gravestones

Title: Re: Canisbay Cemetery
Post by: forfarlass on Saturday 10 September 16 08:06 BST (UK)
Already done that.   Thanks anyway
Title: Re: Canisbay Cemetery
Post by: ellenbrora on Thursday 22 September 16 17:29 BST (UK)
I have a copy of the Canisbay MIs by Cowper & Ross. What name is it you are looking for?

Ellen
Title: Re: Canisbay Cemetery
Post by: forfarlass on Thursday 22 September 16 17:50 BST (UK)
Hello Ellen

Thank you for your reply.   The name is Reverend Alex Robertson.  His wife's name is Kathleen.   He died in August 1986

Many thanks

Jane
Title: Re: Canisbay Cemetery
Post by: ellenbrora on Thursday 22 September 16 17:55 BST (UK)
Ah sadly that one is too recent. The MI books tend to have only the older gravestones transcribed. Several Robertsons in Canisbay, but most recent is 1939. Sorry.

Ellen
Title: Re: Canisbay Cemetery
Post by: forfarlass on Thursday 22 September 16 17:58 BST (UK)
That is okay - thank you for trying anyway.   If I didn't live so far away,  I would have gone there to take the photo myself

Your help was appreciated though   :)

Jane
Title: Re: Canisbay Cemetery
Post by: Suzy W on Tuesday 18 October 16 22:10 BST (UK)
Another good site, and you can search for surnames. https://sites.google.com/site/highlandmemorialinscriptions/home/caithness
Title: Re: Canisbay Cemetery
Post by: Wred on Wednesday 19 October 16 22:40 BST (UK)
Found this from the Herald
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12039340.Queen_Mother_joins_mourners_for_minister/

I see he died suddenly at age 54 and was born in Dundee, nice list of previous parishes as Baptist then Cof Scotland.
Title: Re: Canisbay Cemetery
Post by: forfarlass on Thursday 20 October 16 18:00 BST (UK)
Yes indeed Wred, he had a nice list of churches and was well liked by the Queen Mother
Title: Re: Canisbay Cemetery
Post by: Hinso on Sunday 23 October 16 16:29 BST (UK)
We stopped off at Canisbay Old Church on the way to the Orkney ferry at Gills Bay. The grave is in the 'new' section of the immaculate kirkyard. Probably it will not tell you anything you do not know already.