Birgham Cemetery

Birgham Section B row – 5 – 1 – Illegible

Illegible

Birgham Section B row – 5 – 2 – Mosman

Burying gound of WILLIAM MOSMAN. This stone erected to his son ALEXANDER MOSMAN in _ernchester in memory of JAMES MOSMAN who died 18th November 1788.

Birgham Section B row – 5 – 3 – Crighton/Jeffery/Dodds/Cockburn/Crighteon

Erected ni memory of JAMES CRIGHTON feuar in Birgham who died 4th June 1818 aged 63 years. Also JANET JEFFERY his wife who died 19th May 1837 aged 75 years. And JOHN DODS their son-in-law who died 12th September 1826 aged 35 years. Also AGNES CRIGHTEON relict of JAMES COCKBURN who died 28th January 1860 aged 64 years. Also ELSPETH CRIGHTON relict of the above JOHN DODS who died 5th December 1864 aged 67 years. Also ELIZABETH CRIGHTON grand-daughter of the above who died 13th December 1870 aged 31 years. Also WILLIAM CRIGHTON eldest son of the above who died 29th March 1875 aged 74 years. Also ROBERT CRIGHTON son of the above who died 9th March 1881 aged 78 years. Also ROBERT THOMAS CRIGHTON son of the above ROBERT CRIGHTON born 16th July 1843 died 22nd September 1900. Also JAMES CRIGHTON born 14th June 1841 died 26th March 1905.

Birgham Section B row – 5 – 4 – Dodds/Colston

Erected in memory of ADAM DODDS Birgham who died 25th March 1810 aged 57 years. Also his son ALEXANDER who died 13th December 1805 aged 9 years. Also two of his sons who died in infancy. Also MARGARET COLSTON his wife  who died 25th April 1826 aged 56 years. Also ROBERT DODDS their son who died 24th April 1852 aged 54 years.

Birgham Section B row – 5 – 5 – Dodds/Drummond/Lunam

Erected by JAMES DODDS in memory of ANDREW DODDS  his father who died 3rd July 1859 aged 69 years. Also ISABELLA DODDS his sister who died 10th July 1867 aged 21 years. Also JAMES and ELSPETH who died in infancy. Also MARGARET DRUMMOND his beloved wife who died at Ednam 1st March 1869 aged 28 years. Also RACHEL LUNAM wife of ANDREW DODDS who died 12th January 1886 aged 85 years.

Birgham Section B row – 5 – 6 – Fairbairn/Henderson

Erected by ROBERT FAIRBAIRN in memory of his wife ISABELLA HENDERSON who died at Birgham 17th August 1873 aged 46 years. Also the above ROBERT FAIRBAIRN who died at Coldstream 4th September 1907 aged 83 years. Also MABEL their youngest daughter who died 26th June 1935 in her 76th year.

Birgham Section B row – 6 – 1 – Creighteon/Moffet/Colston/Dodds

Here lies the bodies of MARY CREIGHTEON who died 8th March 1780 aged 18 years. ELSPETH CREIGHTEON died 3rd March 1783 aged 56 years. AGNES MOFFET died 12th September 1785 aged 27 years. WILLIAM CREIGHTON died 10th July 1790 aged 32 years and WILLIAM his son aged 3 months in 1785 years.

On reverse

WILLIAM CREIGHTEON burying place.

Birgham Section B row – 6 – 2 – Illegible

Birgham Section B row – 6 – 3 – Buried Stone

Birgham Section B row – 6 – 4 – Buried Stone

Birgham Section B row – 6 – 5 – Buckham

Sacred to the memory of WILLIAM BUCKHAM who died at Birgham 7th January 1812 aged 63 years. Also of ALEXANDER BUCKHAM his brother who died at Birgham 12th November 1826 aged 66 years.

Birgham Section B row – 6 – 6 – Doue/Ingles

Symbolic Stone

Here lies the body of WILLIAM DOUE who died 29th September 1667 and his spouse MARGARET INGLES who died 8th February 1699 and his son THOMAS DOUE who died May 1683

Birgham Section B row – 6 – 7 – Brocken – stone

Birgham Section B row – 6 – 8 – Broken Headstone

Panel with inscription  missing  only surround remains

Birgham Section B row – 6 – 9 – Cowan/Bell

In memory of DAVID COWAN who died at Birgham 1st November 1868 aged 61 years.

Also MARY COWAN his daughter who died 24th May 1879 aged 32 years.

Also MARY BELL his wife who died 30th August 1886 aged 78 years.

Birgham Section B row – 7 – 1 – Merton/Aitchison

Erected by ELIZABETH and AGNES MERTON Upper Canada  in memory of their mother ELIZABETH AITCHISON  who died 15th April 1832 aged 75 years.

Also JANE MERTON her daughter who died 1st June 1859 aged 46 years.

Birgham Section B row – 7 – 2 – Meikle/Sinclair

Erected in memory of THOMAS MEIKLE fewer in Greenlaw who died 7th january 1815 aged 25 years.

Also AGNES SINCLAIR his spouse who died 29th September 1789 aged 43 years.

Also JENNET MEIKLE his daughter who died 2nd October 1799 aged 28 years.

Birgham Section B row – 7 – 3 – Dickson

Here lyes the body of GEORGE DICKSON Loch??   who died ??

Birgham Section B row – 8 – 1 – Forster/Hay

In loving memory of JAMES FORSTER who died at Leitholm 23rd January 1891 aged 65 years.

Also ISABELLA HAY his wife who died 26th September 1890 aged 62 years.

And ISABELLA their daughter who died 13th February 1871 aged 6 years.

JOHN their son who died in infancy.

Birgham Section B row – 8 – 2 – Cleghorn

Here lies  the body of GEORGE CLEGHORN _____maker in Birgem who died ______1767

On reverse

Here lies ISABEL CLEGHORN daughter to GEORGE CLEGHORN who died 24th January 1757 aged ? Months