1760 Alex Ramsay, maltman, Burges,
Dundee
Claimant: John Thain Esq, Merchant, Park Place.
Illegible in 1980.
Here lyeth interred the bodies of Alex Ramsay, maltman burgis
in Dundee and his spouse Marian Gourlay by whom he had thirteen children seven
of which viz Katherine, Robert, Alexander, David, Margaret, Barbara and Isabell
are here also interred. The father died in the year 1736 in the 66 year of his
age and the mother in the year 1742 aged 72 years.
The man who much has suffered much will know. And pleased
remembrance builds delight in woe.
What was mortal of Mrs Eliz Ramsay where interred, she died
July the 4th 1761 aged 59 years.
Addtional text in Latin, translated below.
Source:RT
To Alexander Ramsay and Marion Gourlay, his well deserving
parents, John Ramsay, formerly commander of a ship, placed this monument,
recognising with grateful mind the goodness of God, the greatest and best, who
delivered him from innumerable dangers, and unexpectedly freed him from the
greatest difficulties, and at length brought him back safe to his native
country, that, among other things, he might be able to pay the debt of gratitude
to his dearest parents.
The man who much has suffered, much will know,
And pleas'd Remembrance builds delight in woe,
What was mortal of Mrs Elizabeth Ramsay is here interred, she
died July the 4th 1761, aged 59 years
She honour'd, as she bore, the Christian name,
Her closest nourish'd her celestial flame;
Her social hours with social pleasance flew,
The love no art, no guilt the pleasure knew;
Ma? cloaded virtue shone through all her life,
The blameless virgin, and the faithful wife.
Long she endur'd afflictions sharpest pains,
But turn'd her crosses into heavenly gains;
All this her husband witness'd, this exprest,
To live her life, and die forever blest.
Source: The Book of the Howff, ŠLibraries, Leisure and Culture
Dundee, Local History Centre & is reproduced with kind permission.
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