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My thanks as usual to that indefatigable pair Margaret Brown and Jean Cowper. Our thanks also to Mr & Mrs Bickerstaff (my sister & brother-in-law) who, with their children Penny, William & Daniel spent as afternoon with us while they were on holiday in Aberdeen. It was their first experience of “Graveyarding” and the youngest lad did very well and treated the stones with a great deal of respect. Quite a few of the flat ones still needed cleaning and they were all enthralled as the mud and moss came off and the letters appeared, and we could eventually read the whole Inscription on something that looked quite uninteresting before we started. We were fortunate too, in meeting the grand daughter of Mr Stratton, (No.14) who was able to tell us the difference in dates – actual and written. She too was on holiday from the Birmingham area. Some interesting stones in this one and we enjoyed our excursions, particularly on the day of Aberdeen Air Show when we stood and watched the Spitfire and Hurricane wheeling overhead. A word of warning though – you will need to be fairly supple to read some of the stones, the Pink Granite ones in particular, their position is not good for the light and Margaret ended up flat on her back to read them. As the first one of 1985 rolls out may I take this opportunity of thanking all our members who have sent Inscriptions to me over the past year. I can assure you they have all been filed under the appropriate churchyard and will be used when we, or another of our groups gets there. I would also like to thank all those members who have contributed to Society funds by buying our booklets. We do the job for the enjoyment we get from it, but the Society benefits from your contributions. Sheila M.Spiers
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Hatton of Fintray Old Kirkyard, also known as 'Fintray', naming 978 individuals between 1752 and 1984
