Individual record
First name: Maude Mitchell Gertrude
Surname: Murchison
Maiden name: Maude Mitchell Gertrude Tordoff
Sloinneadh/nickname:
Date of death: 30/03/61
Place of death: Dundee
Age: 75
Year of death: 1961
Date of burial:
Date of funeral: April 3, 1961
Gravestone inscription: South face: In loving memory of East face: Also their son North face: In West face: Also their daughters
Duncan Murchison
Merchant
Camusterrach, Applecross
Born 3rd January 1847
Died 10th February 1910
and his wife
Elizabeth Murchison
Born 10 July 1850
Died 4th July 1939
John Kenneth
Captain, R.G.A.
aged 48 years
and his wife
Maude Mitchell
Gertrude Tordoff
died 30th March 1961
aged 75 years
affectionate remembrance
Here lies
Winifred May
Murchison
Rochdale and Nairn
died 28th December 1973
aged 67 years
Beloved wife of
Dr. Kenneth D. Murchison
Applecross and Nairn
died 30th December 1979
aged 90 years
Margaret Ann
Murchison
died 6th December 1947
Williamina Murchiosn
died 1st April 1975
and
Janet MacKenzie
died in North Berwick
7th July 1975 aged 93
and buried in
Hillfoot Cemetery, Glasgow
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Biography: Gertrude’ was Scandinavian. Her son Duncan George Murchison was a Professor of Geology and a vice-chancellor of Durham University. According to the Highland Council’s register of interments, she died aged 73 (not 75 as is on the stone). There is no information recorded there about which lair she rests in, or who owned the lair at the time. She is also named on another stone, memorial number 275.
Reference number: 275
Interment number: 338
Graveyard section: 3
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