Clachan Graveyard Mapping Project

Individual record

First name: Roderick

Surname: MacNair

Maiden name:

Sloinneadh/nickname: Ruairidh Mhurchaidh

Date of death: 20/01/37

Place of death:

Age: 81

Year of death: 1937

Date of burial:

Date of funeral: January 22, 1937

Gravestone inscription:

No gravestone exists; or not marked on a gravestone.

Home address: Toscaig

Township: Toscaig

Originally from:

Ardubh

Date of birth:

Biography:

Information from Highland Council’s Register of Interments, which commenced in 1927. The lair owner when he died was his cousin Donald MacNair, ‘Dòmhnall Choinnich’. He died in Taigh a’ Chreagain, Lower Toscaig, where his sister Bell Gordon was living – she was  Colin Gordon’s mother, and she was widowed quite young. Another of Roderick’s sisters  (Anne) was married to Dunnchadh Ceàrr (Duncan Gillies, Culduie).

Reference number:

Interment number: 111

Graveyard section: 1

Lair number: 22

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