Clachan Graveyard Mapping Project

Individual record

First name: Murdo Neil Beaton

Surname: Gillanders

Maiden name:

Sloinneadh/nickname:

Date of death: 01/04/38

Place of death: Applecross Bay

Age: 31

Year of death: 1938

Date of burial:

Date of funeral: April 5, 1938

Gravestone inscription:

In Loving Memory Of
Murdo Neil Beaton
Gillanders
Beloved Husband Of
Mary MacLean
Who Died On The 1st April 1938,
At The Early Age Of Thirty One.

Also The Above
Mary MacLean
Who Died 11th July 2002
Aged 89 Years

”Arise let us go hence”

Erected By His Widow

Home address: Milltown

Township: Milltown

Originally from:

Date of birth:

Biography:

He was a tailor. In the Highland Council’s Register of Interments, he is listed as being 32 when he died, and is recorded under the given name Neil Gillanders. The owner of the lair was recorded as being his father, Murdo Gillanders. Murdo Neil Beaton Gillanders, known as Neil, and his brother Murdo, both drowned in the same accident, along with Murdo MacRae (Peelings).

Reference number: 158

Interment number: 123

Graveyard section: 2

Lair number: 37

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