Individual record
First name: Catherine
Surname: Gillies
Maiden name: Catherine Beaton
Sloinneadh/nickname: Bean an Fhiocair
Date of death: 26/05/59
Place of death: Kyle of Lochalsh
Age: 77
Year of death: 1959
Date of burial:
Date of funeral: June 28, 1959
Gravestone inscription: Erected to the memory By the family.
of
John Gillies
late of Ardubh
who died at Kyle 21st Jan. 1949,
aged 82 years.
His son Roderick
died 2nd May 1917, aged 3 years
His daughter Peggy
died 6th June 1947, aged 29 years
and his wife
Catherine Beaton
died 26th May 1959, aged 77 years
Christina
died 4th March 1970, aged 60 years
Jessie Ann
died 21st Feb. 2007, aged 90 years
Home address: Kyle of Lochalsh
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Biography: According to the Highland Council’s Register of Interments, the owner of the lair when Catherine Gillies died was Kenneth Gillies, resident in Kyle of Lochalsh. She was a sister of Norman Beaton (Tormod Mòr); a daughter of Murchadh Mòr (Murdo Beaton) of Uags. The fishing boat ‘Kathryn’ was named after her.
Reference number: 177
Interment number: 326
Graveyard section: 2
Lair number: 62
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