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It is quite some time since the gang collected to work here but my thanks to them are still valid. The usual bunch of Margaret, Jean & Jim were all hard at work over a holiday weekend. I was there to keep them in order and to draw the plan. We were also joined my Mr. James Taylor from Rosehearty for a brief spell and by Connie Stuart from Oyne. Extra thanks to Margaret because, as usual, she has done the final typescript for me. There are two churchyards at Rathen and this is the older of the two. You will find it tucked away down the lane beyond the modern one *. The oldest stone is dated 1624 (No. 266) and is still very readable though we had to clear some Ivy which had grown up the wall and was encroaching over the stone. I have been asked on several occasions if we read the stones ourselves or refer to other works. In the event of having to refer to other sources - Henderson or Jervise - we always acknowledge them but we always try to read them for ourselves having proved one or the other wrong on some things. They only quote the ministers or landed people, very rarely the ordinary folk of the parish, whereas we do all the stones in the churchyard that can be seen. (And a few which can’t, when we uncover them, read them and recover them). Sheila M.Spiers * The Memorial Inscriptions of the newer kirkyard (“Rathen West”) are published as AA074
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Rathen Old Kirkyard, naming 1094 individuals between 1624 and 1979
