Individual record
First name: Barbara
Surname: Gillies
Maiden name:
Sloinneadh/nickname: Baraba
Date of death: 16/02/29
Place of death:
Age: 76
Year of death: 1929
Date of burial:
Date of funeral: February 20, 1929
Gravestone inscription: Erected by
Duncan Gillies
in memory of his father
John Gillies, Culduie,
died 26 Nov. 1866, aged 50 years
his mother
Mary MacLeay
died 23 Aug 1908, aged 88 years
his sister Barbara
died 16 Feb 1929, aged 76 years
Home address: Culduie
Township: Culduie
Originally from: Culduie
Date of birth:
Biography: Her age in the Register of Interments is given as “80 circ.” The owner of the lair at the time was her brother Alexander Gillies. On her deathbed, she is supposed to have asked for a drink of water from the Fuaran Dearg, a well near the shore below Culduie, on the Caman side. She was a sister of Duncan (Ceàrraidh).
Reference number: 199
Interment number: 27
Graveyard section: 2
Lair number: 19
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