Clachan Graveyard Mapping Project

Individual record

First name: Mary

Surname: Finlayson

Maiden name:

Sloinneadh/nickname: Màiri Chaluim

Date of death: 12/07/56

Place of death:

Age: 85

Year of death: 1956

Date of burial:

Date of funeral: July 14, 1956

Gravestone inscription:

In
Loving Memory
Of
Malcolm Finlayson
Who Died 4th March 1917
Aged 93
Also His Wife
Jane Kennedy
Who Died 26th July 1922
Aged 91
His Brother
William Finlayson
Who Died 30th September 1935
Aged 100 Years

~
Danag Finlayson
Died 9th Jan. 1947 Aged 80 Years
Mary Finlayson
Died 12th July 1956, Aged 85 Years

Home address:

Township: Camusterrach

Originally from:

Camusterrach

Date of birth:

Biography:

House keeper to the Duchess of Westminster on her Ireland. She was known as ‘Blessed Mary’ by the other young girls in service for securing them a later rising time in the morning; something like 7am instead of 5am. Returned to live in Camusterrach with her brother and sister. She helped to rear Kenneth Stumpy MacKenzie when he was a child.

Reference number: 38

Interment number: 309

Graveyard section: 1

Lair number: 26

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