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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]
11 Apr 1929	Jean Smith	I13	West Newport		[stone 72]
23 Feb 1946	Betsy Smith	I11	Leuchars		[stone 72]
		J
23 Mar 1900	Hugh Thomson	J18	Scroggieside, Newport	10/-
16 Feb 1901	Arthurina Watson Henderson	J2	Woodhaven	5/-
13 Mar 1905	Ann Gibson	J26	The Offices, Tayfield	12/6	[stone 80]
14 Jan 1901	James Peebles	J24	Bogearn, Forgan	10/-	[stone 90]
3 Jan 1906	Charles Robb	J4	Cupar Asylum	12/6
28 Feb 1906	George Mitchell	J17	Upper Friarton	12/6
12 May 1906	A Peebles stillborn child	J23	Bogearn	7/6
28 Aug 1907	Wilhelmina Berry	J Tayfield Inclosure		12/6	[stone 87]
1939	Isabella Berry	J south side			[stone 85]
1 Mar 1912	Isabella McIntosh	J7	William St, Newport	12/6
27 May 1913	John Clark Peebles	J24	Bogearn, Forgan	12/6	[stone 90]
11 Aug [1915]	Margaret Higgins Berry	J Tayfield Inclosure		12/6	[stone 86]
15 Aug 1916	Isabella Robb	J4	The Granary, West Newport	12/6
19 Sep 1916	Patrick Fay	J5	Longcraig Cottage, Wormit	12/6
23 Jul 1924	Alexander McIntosh	J7	George Sq, Coupar Angus	17/6
9 Feb 1939	Isabella Berry	J Incloser Tayfield south side			[stone 85]
		K
20 Sep 1900	Williamina Edington	K3	Waterston Crook, West Newport	10/-
14 Mar 1902	James Stewart	K5	Woodhaven, Forgan	12/6
16 Sep 1903	Agnes Murray	K11	Waterston Crook	12/6
26 Sep 1903	John Lindsay	K14	West Newport	12/6
12 Mar 1915	Robert Murray	K12	Victoria Hospital	12/6
13 Apr 1921	Agne Edington	K3	Fife & Kinross	12/6
10 Jul 1921	Christina Howett	K4	Robert St	12/6
8 Jul 1927	Isabella Lindsay	K14	Station Road, Thornton
July [1936]	Jemima Edington, Nurse Edington	K3	Newport
		L
23 Aug 1902	Buist stillborn child	L4	Woodhaven	7/6
18 Mar 1904	Jane Eddie	L7	Gas Lane, East Newport	12/6
28 Mar 1904	Mary Pitcaithly	L10	Woodhaven	12/6
13 Jul 1904	Robert Eddie	L8	Gas Lane, East Newport	12/6
7 Apr 1909	Jennet Wallace	L3	Newton, Forgan	12/6
12 Apr 1912	Elizabeth Duncan	L24	Victoria Hospital, Dundee	17/6
		M
17 Jan 1900	Isabella Mathieson	M6	19 Nelson St, Dundee	15/-
2 Oct 1900	Elizabeth Turnbull	M23	Robert St, East Newport	10/-	[stone 106]
15 Apr 1904	Thomas Webster	M3	Inverdovat	7/6
	stillborn child [bracketed with Thomas Webster]	M3
10 Apr 1905	John Allardice	M34	Seacraig, East Newport	12/6	[stone 115]
21 Feb 1906	Margaret Turnbull	M24	Robert St, East Newport	12/6	[stone 106]
4 Jul 1944	John K Turnbull	M25			[stone 107]
19 Feb 1949	Henry George Turnbull	M26			[stone 107]
		N
17 Apr 1905	Willisher child stillborn	N4	Tay Terrace, East Newport	7/6
4 Jun 1907	Ross stillborn child	N1	High St, East Newport	7/6
12 Nov 1910	Ander Dudgen	N5	Montrose Royal Asylum	17/6	[stone 211]
3 Feb 1912	Agnis H Christie	N14	3 Hope St, St Andrews	17/6	[stone 109]

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