Clachan Graveyard Mapping Project

Individual record

First name: Donald

Surname: Ferguson

Maiden name:

Sloinneadh/nickname:

Date of death: 21/01/04

Place of death: Cradlehall Nursing Home, Inverness

Age: 94

Year of death: 2004

Date of burial:

Date of funeral:

Gravestone inscription:

In
Loving Memory Of

Catherine Ann MacKinnon
Died 16th Sept. 1994
Aged 86 Years
Dearly Loved Wife Of
Donald Ferguson
Died 21st Jan. 2004
Aged 94 Years

Home address: Milltown

Township: Milltown

Originally from:

Milltown

Date of birth:

Biography:

Donald Ferguson was a son of Donald Ferguson (Dòmhnall a Ruaidh), who was a tailor. His mother was from Aberdeen. He worked on the Applecross farm and in the Gardens at Applecross House. Around 1950, he became the first permanent postman on Mortie Never’s round in the 1950s and worked at this job until the mid-1970s. He had two sons, who both live in Applecross (2012). His brother Iain was a tailor who emigrated to Melbourne, Australia; and he had a sister who died in childhood.

Reference number: 108

Interment number: 421

Graveyard section: 1

Lair number: 52

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