Clachan Graveyard Mapping Project

Individual record

First name: Bella

Surname: Finlayson

Maiden name: Bella MacLeay

Sloinneadh/nickname:

Date of death: 25/01/71

Place of death: Kyle of Lochalsh

Age: 97

Year of death: 1971

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Gravestone inscription:

Erected To The Memory
Of
Donald Finlayson
Ardheslaig
Who Died 20th March 1949 Aged 79 Years

Bella MacLeay

Who Died 25th January 1971

Beloved Wife Of The Above
Donald Finlayson

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Biography:

She was descended from the MacLeays of Sand/Salachar. There is an entry for a Bella Finlayson in the Highland Council’s register of interments, from which the burial date and lair information is drawn which has discrepancies with what is on the stone. It records her death date as 6 February 1971, not 25 January 1971. This entry needs to be verified. The lair owner when she died was her son Alexander Finlayson (Ali Ruadh).

Reference number: 18

Interment number: 409

Graveyard section: 1

Lair number: 20

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