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Forgan Kirkyard - Gravedigger's Book

This is a transcript of the gravedigger's book Record of Interments in Forgan Kirkyard from Whitsunday 1899 to . This book gives date of burial, name, lair number, place of death and fees paid.

Where I have been able to match interments with gravestones, I have added the reference number of the stone and inscription in a column at the end. I was able to draw up a tentative lair plan based on this information which showed that the lairs were numbered as follows: standing at the gate facing south, each row of lairs is lettered from A (at the west wall) to Z (in the east). Each lettered row is then numbered from 1 (at the north wall) increasing towards the south. I have added these 1885 lair letters at the bottom of the plan of the kirkyard. When I examined the gravedigger's book, it was held by Fife Council Archives in Markinch but now it is no longer listed in the Fife Archives online catalogue.

The writing in the gravedigger's book is sometimes unclear, dates are sometimes missing or incomplete, one date gave the wrong year (let's put this down to poor interpretation of bad handwriting), the spelling is interesting. I have made some editorial additions, other entries are 'as found'.

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Date	Name	Lair	Died at	Fees	[stone]
1 Jun 1907	May Lawson	G32	Tayport Terrace	17/6	[stone 54]
9 Apr 1928	Robina Cheape Lawson	G32	District Asylum, Cupar
30 Aug 1899	Leslie stillborn child	H1	Newton	5/-
8 Jul 1927	Isabella Lindsay	K14	Station Road, Thornton
26 Sep 1903	John Lindsay	K14	West Newport	12/6
19 Nov 1945	James Lorimer	G3	36 Ogilvie St, Tayport
7 Nov 1919	Janet Duff Lorimer or Baldy	G2	Lucklawhill	12/6
5 Nov 1903	(Lowson stone)	G31	Woodhaven	10/-	[stone 54]
16 Feb 1901	Helen Thomson Lowson	G31	Woodhaven	10/-	[stone 54]
Mar 1924	MacLaren	I36	Tayfield
3 Sep 1906	Jessie Malcolm	H27	Bernard St, Dundee	17/6
17 Jan 1900	Isabella Mathieson	M6	19 Nelson St, Dundee	15/-
4 Jan 1933	Kathrine McArthur	T20	Gauldry		[stone 162]
21 May 1904	Peter McArthur	T21	Gauldry, Balmerino	17/6	[stone 163]
20 Aug 1911	Alexander McFarland	D1	Woodhaven	7/6
18 Feb 1903	Helen McGregor	E32	James Square	12/6
23 Jul 1924	Alexander McIntosh	J7	George Sq, Coupar Angus	17/6
1 Mar 1912	Isabella McIntosh	J7	William St, Newport	12/6
13 Jun 1946 [should be 1940]	William McLaren
30 Jul 1914	James MacGavin Melville	R18	Royal Infirmary	12/6
9 Mar 1906	George D Middleton	G1	Figtree Cottage, West Newport	7/6
28 Apr 1908	William A C Middleton	G2	Figtree Cottage, West Newport	12/6
20 Feb [1937]	Ellen M Miller	B28	Newport		[stone 15]
5 Nov 1903	David Mitchell	A5	King St, Newport	12/6
28 Feb 1906	George Mitchell	J17	Upper Friarton	12/6
9 Jan 1915	James Mitchell	C5	Morton	5/-
8 Dec 1921	Margaret Donaldson Morrison	P1	Queen St, East Newport	12/6
16 Jan 1911	Mary Morrison	C7	Poplar Cottage, East Newport	12/6
16 Sep 1903	Agnes Murray	K11	Waterston Crook	12/6
12 Mar 1915	Robert Murray	K12	Victoria Hospital	12/6
20 Feb 1919	Melville Murry [Murray]	G33	Newport	12/6	[stone 53]
25 Mar 1948	Elspeth Hay Naper [Napier]	F10	Gibson Hospital, St Andrews
11 Feb 1922	Jessie Knox Naper [Napier]	F6	Pickletillum	12/6
31 Jul 1913	Elizabeth Cisely Noakes	T22	Woodend, West Newport	12/6	[stone 162]
2 Apr 1902	John Noakes	T23	St Jans, Woodhaven	12/6	[stone 162]
4 Apr 1900	Devina Watt Paton	S19	Pluck the Craw, West Newport	10/-
19 Mar 1913	George Watt Paton	S20	Gauldry or West Newport	12/6
29 Jan 1904	George Watt Paton	S21	Pluck the Craw	12/6
14 Jan 1901	James Peebles [entry deleted]	I24	Bogearn, Forgan	10/-	[stone 90]
14 Jan 1901	James Peebles	J24	Bogearn, Forgan	10/-	[stone 90]
17 Jun	Jessie Peebles	G19	Comerton	12/6
30 Apr 1920	John Peebles	G20	Comerton	12/6
27 May 1913	John Clark Peebles	J24	Bogearn, Forgan	12/6	[stone 90]
12 May 1906	A Peebles stillborn child	J23	Bogearn	7/6
8 Jan 1901	Agnes Philip	W23	Egypt Muir	15/-
28 Mar 1904	Mary Pitcaithly	L10	Woodhaven	12/6
10 Jul 1901	Isabella Proctor	E1	Union St, Newport	7/6
25 Feb 1911	Jane Stewart Ramsay	P31	Primrose Bank, West Newport	12/6	[stone 129]
5 Apr 1904	Charles Henry Ratcliffe	C6	Woodend, West Newport	12/6
24 Nov 1921	Elizabeth Rhind	W31	24 St George Sq, Sunderland	17/6	[stone 179a]

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