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Ayrshire / Help wanted/Dalrymple cemetery/Calbreath
« on: Wednesday 05 September 07 13:28 BST (UK) »
On a recent trip to Scotland in search of links on my Galbraith family tree I visited the Dalrymple cemetery. I found several old graves in the cemetery which were connected to my family.
There was a stone in the cemetery leaning against the Right Hand wall in the churchard, inscribed
"David and William Calbreath erected this stone 17?7 "
followed by a verse. Unfortunately, while I photographed it, I didn't transcribe it whilst I was there, and now find my photo is not clear enough to be legible. Even the date is unclear. Is it 1707 or 1767?
My son was in Glasgow briefly and photocopied some pages from a book entitled "Dalrymple Churchyard Monumental Inscriptions", but only copied pages relating to 'Galbraith', not Calbreath so I don't have the information relating to this stone. He is now in Spain, so can longer help me in this regard. I wondered if it would be possible for someone to find this book in the library and let me know if there is a transcription of this stone, and also if it mentions what was on the other side of it, or on whose grave it was originally located.
Jane J
There was a stone in the cemetery leaning against the Right Hand wall in the churchard, inscribed
"David and William Calbreath erected this stone 17?7 "
followed by a verse. Unfortunately, while I photographed it, I didn't transcribe it whilst I was there, and now find my photo is not clear enough to be legible. Even the date is unclear. Is it 1707 or 1767?
My son was in Glasgow briefly and photocopied some pages from a book entitled "Dalrymple Churchyard Monumental Inscriptions", but only copied pages relating to 'Galbraith', not Calbreath so I don't have the information relating to this stone. He is now in Spain, so can longer help me in this regard. I wondered if it would be possible for someone to find this book in the library and let me know if there is a transcription of this stone, and also if it mentions what was on the other side of it, or on whose grave it was originally located.
Jane J