Clachan Graveyard Mapping Project

Individual record

First name: Hector

Surname: Gillies

Maiden name:

Sloinneadh/nickname:

Date of death: 13/10/28

Place of death:

Age: 74

Year of death: 1928

Date of burial:

Date of funeral: October 16, 1928

Gravestone inscription:

In
loving memory
of
Alexander Gillies
Miltown,
died 2 November 1884
aged 58 years
also his wife
Janet McBeath
died at Inverness
4 May 1906, aged 78 years
Also
their beloved daughters
Catherine, died at Invss,
29 May 1906, aged 48 years.
Isabella Gillies,
died at Invss 21 Feb. 1917,
aged 47 years
Also
Hector Gillies
died at Invss 13 Oct 1928
aged 74 years

“Be ye also ready.”

Erected by their son Hector
and daughter Bella.

Home address: Inverness

Township:

Originally from:

Callakille

Date of birth:

Biography:

The Highland Council’s Register of Interments lists his death date as being Sunday 14th October 1928 (which is a day later than is stated on the gravestone); that Hector himself was the owner oif the lair and that the residence of the lair owner was Callakille; but the name of the deceased was Hector MacBeath, residing in Inverness. His occupation in listed as ‘Merchant’.

Reference number: 178

Interment number:

Graveyard section: 2

Lair number:

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