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Dunfermline Abbey Gravestones
Lair no 960 belonged to Mrs Douglas Chalmers Street
Lair 605
A group comprising a single low marker and a flat stone - both sandstone
Low marker
No inscription
Flat stone
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
CHARLES GRAHAM CROSSFORD
BORN 1800 DIED 1867
MARGARET DOUGLAS HIS WIFE
BORN 1800 DIED 1848
JAMES MORGAN CROSSFORD
BORN 1834 DIED 1916
AND
ISABELLA GRAHAM HIS WIFE
DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE CHARLES GRAHAM
BORN 1836 DIED 1919
Lairs 1826 – 1827
Marble double low marker, heavily discoloured
First half of the marker
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JANE
DAUGHTER OF JOHN BARDNER
BORN AT DUNFERMLINE 3RD MARCH 1852
DIED AT EDINBURGH 10TH NOVEMBER 1906
MARGARET HANDYSIDE
YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF JOHN BARDNER
DIED AT EDINBURGH 29TH MARCH 1931 AGED 76 YEARS
Second half of the marker
IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARGARET DOUGLAS
DAUGHTER OF ROBERT BARDNER
BORN 24TH NOV 18_5 DIED 7TH _A_ ___2
Lairs 1826 and 1827 were purchased in 1900 by Margaret Douglas Bardner,
Bridge Street. They were later transferred to Mrs Betsy Cooper or Burns,
Glasgow Cathcart and inherited by her daughter Miss Mary Burns who
transferred it to Miss Margaret Bardner, 8 London Street, Edinburgh.
(Margaret's sister Miss Jane Bardner is also buried in this lair.)
Lairs
284 – 287
Group comprising:
1 A double-width headstone on a three-tier base with two marble plaques,
one of which has now disappeared. On top of the headstone is a sandstone
casket.
2 A grey granite flat stone.
3 Two single low markers.
All surrounded by a sandstone kerb stone with nine low pillars bearing
the remains of an ornate iron chain.
Inscription on the remaining marble
plaque.
JAMES DOUGLAS FATHER OF THE FAMILY
DIED 1817 AGED 80 YEARS
HELEN BLACK HIS WIDOW DIED 1848 AGED 81
BARBARA DOUGLAS DIED 1845 AGED 70
JAMES DOUGLAS JUNIOR DIED 1852 AGED 69
MARGARET DOUGLAS DIED 1854 AGED 58
ROBERT DOUGLAS DIED 1858 AGED 63
MARION DOUGLAS DIED 1870 AGED 80
On the casket
ROBERT DOUGLAS OF ABBEY PARKS
DIED 25TH JULY 1858 AGED 63
On the flat stone
IN MEMORY OF CHARLES HILL DOUGLAS
OF WALLA WALLA NEW SOUTH WALES
DIED AT MELBOURNE 30TH MARCH 1898
AND WHOSE REMAINS REST HERE
AND ALSO OF HIS WIDOW HENRIETTA DOUGLAS
WHO DIED 8TH MARCH 1928 AGED 79 YEARS
AND OF THEIR DAUGHTER
HELEN HENRIETTA DOUGLAS
WIFE OF ARCHIBALD MENZIES
DIED IN LONDON 7TH NOVEMBER 1949 AGED 74 YEARS
Lairs 284 to 287 belonged to Robert Douglas of Whitehill.
At a meeting of the management committee of the Dunfermline Heritors on
9 October 1860, their clerk stated that Mrs Douglas, widow of the late
Robert Douglas esq, Craigdhu, was anxious to place a monument or
tombstone over husband's grave, about 4ft 4in high. A sketch was
submitted and approved by the committee. They considered 'that from the
locality in which the grave rooms belonging to the late Mr Douglas is
situated the proposed monument can cause no inconvenience to the
proprietors of other rooms' and agreed to sanction the monument as long
as it was placed in the line of graves from east to west and not in a
horizontal position across them. Also to be no higher than 3ft, 'which
can easily be accomplished by diminishing the height of the pedestal’.
The monument in question comprised the stone casket placed on a low
pedestal. It was the first monument to be sanctioned by the Heritors and
is visible as the only upstanding monument in an 1860s photograph of the
graveyard.
On 17 September 1894 James Henry Douglas of Whitehill(1) applied to have
his family burying ground near the southeast corner of the church (lairs
284-287), entered in name of his uncle, the late Robert Douglas esq,
extended four feet west beyond the present enclosure to give four
additional lairs. As it would not interfere with any ground currently
occupied, the Managing Committee agreed. James Henry Douglas was to pay
£4 4s ie £1 1s per lair, the usual price.
Lairs 309 – 310
Double low marker
First stone
CHRISTOPHER GREIG MORRIS
DIED 18 MAY1846 AGED 47 YEARS
AGNES BURT HIS WIFE
DIED 4th MARCH 1872 AGED 73 YEARS
CHRISTINA MORRIS
WIFE OF JAMES COWAN
DIED 3RD NOV 1863 AGED 32 YEARS
Second stone
ANN DOUGLAS
WIFE OF CHRISTOPHER MORRIS
DIED 22ND FEBRUARY1873 AGED 24 YEARS
MARGARET GIBB THOMSON
WIFE OF ARTHUR MORRIS
DIED 1ST OCTOBER 1895 AGED 74 YEARS
Lairs 309 and 310 belonged to Arthur Burt Morris, collier, Rumblingwell
Lairs 1259 – 1260
Sandstone double low marker
20cm x 92cm
First stone
ROBERT PATON
JANET HIS DAUGHTER DIED 22ND DECEMBER 1856
Second stone
CHRISTINA DOUGLAS WHO DIED 25TH APRIL 1881
AGED 51 YEARS
Lairs 1259 and 1260 belonged to Robert Paton miner at Townhill
Lairs 965 – 966
Group of two single sandstone low markers, each one 9cm high by 90cm
wide.
Lairs 965 and 966 belonged to William Douglas.
He and Agnes Leishman were married at Dunfermline on 22 March 1834
Notes:
1. ??? Whitehill : Rosewell, Mid-Lothian : James
Henry Douglas. T. 0. Hawthornden Statical, 1. Stn. — Hawthornden
(N.B.R).
See also:
• The royal Burgh of
Dunfermline
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