Erected
By JAMES ALLAN Flaxdresser
Scouringburn in Dundee
in memory of his children viz
ALEXr who died 22nd Feb 1793
aged 22 months JAMES died 22
July 1794 aged 13 months and my
mother ELSPATH SMART who
died 13 Nov 1800 aged 56 also my
spouse MAGDELANE BEIG died
18 Aug 1806 aged 33 years also
my father ALEXr ALLAN died 18th Nov
1810 aged 66
Also Christian Skinner Allan ( daughter of James Allan and
Elisabeth Kermeth by the 2nd Marriage ), who died 5th June 1813, aged 2 years
and 8 months.
Source: The Book of the Howff, ŠLibraries, Leisure and Culture
Dundee, Local History Centre & is reproduced with kind permission.
When the Archangels trump shall blow
and souls to bodies join,
Millions would wish their lives below
had been as short as mine.
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