Clachan Graveyard Mapping Project

Individual record

First name: Mary

Surname: Gillanders

Maiden name: Mary MacCuish

Sloinneadh/nickname: Pollag

Date of death: 13/10/98

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Age: 85

Year of death: 1998

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In
memory of
Roderick Gillanders
who died 10th July 1974
aged 65 years
Beloved husband of
Mary MacCuish
who died 13th October 1998
aged 85 years

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Mary was from the Isle of Harris; she was a niece of the MacLeods (Fionnlagh Chròlaig, the Broc, etc.) She appears in the right foreground of a photograph of women waulking the tweed in Ardubh, Toscaig, c.1925.  It is believed that Mary MacCuish got married to Roderick Gillanders in Strathcarron Hotel.

Reference number: 261

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Graveyard section: 3

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