(original inscription erased see
below)
1819
Revised By
JOHN DEWARS
ship carpenter Dundee
in memory of his children Viz
PETER
who died 17th Dec 1800
aged 2 years
WILLIAM who died 31st March 1808
aged 9 months
CATHERINE
who died 7th Feby 1815
aged 9 months
ANDREW who died 18th Oct 1818
aged 8 years
Monteith's An Theater Of Mortality
Here lies an honest man named Walter Gourlay,
maltman and burgess of Dundee; who deceased 28
April 1628, and of his age 46 years, with his twenty
bairnes. (All their heads being cut upon this stone.) W. G. M. R.
Walter Gourlay and Elspeth Pie.
[Walter Gourlay, with his wife Elspeth Pie and all their
Twenty Bairns lie below a flat stone about fifteen paces from
the west door.]
Epvte Pie. Here ly I. My Twentie Bairnies, My Good
man & I. 1628.
* This stone was taken up in 1819, and all the 22 heads and the old
writings taken off.
Source Dundee Deliniated
1819. Revised by John Dewars, Ship Carpenter, Dundee, in memory
of his children,
viz., Peter, who died 17th Deer 1800, aged 2 years; William, who
died 31st March, 1808, aged 9
months; Catherine, who died 7th Feby 1815, aged 9 months ;
Andrew, who died 18th Octr, 1818,
aged 8 years.
This monument was originally inscribed thus:—Heir lyis ane
godlie honest man namit Valter
Govrlay, Maltman, Bvrgis in Dvndie, quha decessit this lyf 28 of
Apryl, 1628, of his age 46 zeiris,
vith his vyf and his twentie bairnis.
Source: Thomson.
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