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Acknowledgements
Our thanks first and foremost must go to Mr. T. W. Brown, who, by a generous donation to the Society, through his daughter, Dr. P. Margaret Brown has enabled us to get this printed and published ahead of time. Mr Brown has a particular interest in this one as his ancestors are buried here (No.91) My own thanks go as usual to the ever failthful “Gang” (Dr. Margaret Brown, Monica Anton, Anne Lowe, Mrs Bathie and Jean Cowper). We have happy memories from here – first, the day we started to read and plot, the church was open. It was Harvest Festival the next day and the local inhabitants were busy decorating the church. We met the minister, Mr Collier, and some of the Elders who were very interested in our activities, and gave us their blessing as it were. Secondly, as the minister stopped to chat to us on his way home, we noticed a broken stone, lying face down on another. With his help we moved it and stood it upright. Although we hadn’t got as far as this one in our reading we took it down anyway. On our return home, reading the latest Newsletter, which we had collected that morning, we noticed a query for WALKER & SAYER. This was the broken stone we had stood upright. We sent the information off and had a jubilant reply from the enquirer. Lastly, in February (1983), we had a letter from a lady in Edinburgh who had read the Newsletter in the S.G.S. Library and noticed this same query. She also had written to the enquirer, and found they were cousins. Her letter to us expressed her thanks for a new relative and asked if we had any more information on the family. She has since become a member of the Society. This is a churchyard where families are definitely in “plots” so it’s worth a look to see who is alongside, They might be related. Sheila M.Spiers.
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Inverkeithny Old Kirkyard, naming 739 individuals between 1713 and 1982
