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Graveyards and Gravestones / Re: Simpson - Clunyhill Cemetery
« on: Sunday 11 November 18 18:03 GMT (UK) »
Excellent, thanks, I'll see what I can find. I've only ever linked off from Ancestry to that site and couldn't figure out how to search for anything else!
Kenneth Mackintosh Simpson left Forres and ran a sugar plantation in Trinidad, he travelled to England for the queen's coronation and died whilst in England on that visit. My dad remembers being told about it and I've found his death record from Middlesex 1953 which supports that memory. It does sounds rather like he may have paid for the memorial (which would make sense as he was the only person with any money!). Going to do some digging to find the the biography on him, sounds interesting.
Kenneth Mackintosh Simpson left Forres and ran a sugar plantation in Trinidad, he travelled to England for the queen's coronation and died whilst in England on that visit. My dad remembers being told about it and I've found his death record from Middlesex 1953 which supports that memory. It does sounds rather like he may have paid for the memorial (which would make sense as he was the only person with any money!). Going to do some digging to find the the biography on him, sounds interesting.
that's very helpful. I've come across the Moray LIBINDX before, I'll have to take another look as I didn't see where people were buried. The 'colourful' Kenneth is my 2x great grandad and has been a very interesting character to research! I thought that the Kenneth M might be his son (my great grandad was his brother Robert),that's definitely the right one, he lived in Trindad but died in London and I'd not been able to find out where he was buried until now.