Clachan Graveyard Mapping Project

Individual record

First name: Rebecca

Surname: MacPherson

Maiden name: Rebecca Finlayson

Sloinneadh/nickname: Beathag

Date of death: 16/09/48

Place of death: Culduie

Age: 89

Year of death: 1948

Date of burial:

Date of funeral: September 18, 1948

Gravestone inscription:

In Memory Of
John MacPherson
Culduie
Died 28th Oct. 1948, Aged 84 Years
And His Wife
Rebecca Finlayson
Died 16th Sep. 1948, Aged 89 Years
Their son, Alexander,
Died 6th May 1914. Aged 25 Years
And Their Daughters, Jessie,
Died 28th April 1916, Aged 25 Years
Bella
Died 16th May 1995, Aged 95 Years

Gus am bris an là

Home address: Culduie

Township: Culduie

Originally from:

Date of birth:

Biography:

Her mother was a MacNair from Ardubh. The Highland Council’s Register of Interments lists her age as 90, not 89 as is on the grave stone. The lair owner when she died was her husband John, who passed away just a month later (28 OCtober 1948).

Reference number: 140

Interment number: 241

Graveyard section: 2

Lair number: 6

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