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Kirriemuir - The Cemetery

The Cemetery - June 1957

This is the Cemetery in Kirriemuir.

Find a Grave lists Kirriemuir Cemetery Interments.  See also Kirriemarians of Note

The Cemetery - October 1997

This is the war memorial in the Cemetery in Kirriemuir.

The Kirriemuir War Memorial page of the Old 5th (Angus & Dundee) Battalion, The Black Watch lists the names of the youth and manhood of the parish of Kirriemuir who fell in the service of their king and country in the great war.  The Roll of Honour - 1914 to 1921 includes men who died while serving with other units, but who are known to have originally enlisted as 'Territorials' with the 5th (Angus & Dundee) Battalion earlier in the war.

The Cemetery - October 1997

This is an example of a headstone used to commemorate multiple burials in the same family.  Examples of the use of family headstgones may be found at the following locations:
   The grave of the Barrie family in the Kirriemujir cemetery, including the name of James Matthew Barrie, and
   St. Martins cemetery, just beside Balbeggie, Perthshire, Scotland

This example reads as follows:
    In loving memory of our dear mother
    ELIZABETH CLARK IRVINE MCGREGOR
    Ard Choille
    died 27th Aug 1960
    And our father
    DAVID MCGREGOR
    died 25th Sep 1935
    Also of their daughter
    ANNIE ELIZABETH
    died 31st July 1905
    And their granddaughter
    ELIZABETH ANNIE MUNRO
    died 28th Aug 1937
    And their daughter
    WILHELMINA I. MUNRO
    died 23rd March 1961
    WM. MUNRO DIED 9TH OCT 1961
    DAVID MCGREGOR
    Son of the above
    ELIZABETH AND DAVID MCGREGOR
    died 22d Aug 1982
    And their daughter
    MARGARET NAN MCGREGOR
    died 11th April 2006

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