Clachan Graveyard Mapping Project

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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