Who is Oswald Skene (really)

[colinskene]

Oswald Grieve being his nephew ties in with my thoughts. I don't have the marriage info but I do have his death. I've been to Ladykirk but never spotted the stone. It would be great if you had a record of it.

[vivdunstan]

No sign of a stone in the Scottish Genealogy Society Greenlaw Ladykirk list (in their Berwickshire pre-1855 volumes). But the lists are mainly for pre-1855 stones, including pre-1855 stones with later inscriptions.

So if William had a later stone it won't be in the book.

And if he had no stone - including perhaps his first wife being buried there too - it won't be recorded. A lot of less well to do families didn't have gravestones. And that would include many farm workers.

[colinskene]

His father and mother were listed as paupers before they died. They would have been buried in paupers graves in Duns