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ELIZABETH WATSON daughter of
??????????????? WILLIAM WATSON?????
April 1733
??????????? WILLIAM MAXWELL Merchant
??????????? Baileis of Dundee
son ??????????? and ELIZABETH
????????? ANN OGILVY ???
who???? THOMAS OGILVY
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August 1849 ????????
too much erosion to make out anything else
Patrick Maxwell, Provost of Dundee, 1737.
Originally the inscription was in Latin, but it was cleaned off in 1859, and the present English inscription
substituted.
Under this stone are deposited the remains of Patrick Maxwell,
merchant and Provost of Dundee, son of the late Provost David Maxwell, who died
14th March 1737, and of his wife Elizabeth Watson, daughter of the late Baillie
William Watson, who died 13th April 1733. Also of William Maxwell, Merchant, and
one of the Baillies of Dundee, son of Patrick and Elizabeth, who was born 14
July 1726, and died 5 Decr 1785, and of his wife, Ann Ogilvy, daughter of Thomas
Ogilvy Esq of Coul, who died 21st Feby 1814 in her 89th year. Also of John
Maxwell, sometime Surgeon in Jamaica, and latterly residing in Dundee, son of
William and Anne, who died 13th Oct 1859 in his 96th year. Also of William
Maxwell, eldest son of John who died 27th August 1849 in his 27th year.
Source: The Book of the Howff, ŠLibraries, Leisure and Culture Dundee, Local
History Centre & is
reproduced with kind permission.
Original translated inscription.
The bones of Patrick, son of David Maxwell, Merchant in the city
of Dundee, and
Provost of the same, lie in this burying ground, under this
marble, toward the west. He died on the
first of the ides of March, 1737.
Under this also, towards the south, rest the remains of
Elizabeth "Watson, wife of Patrick, and
daughter of "William Watson, formerly Merchant and Bailie in
this place. She died on the ides of
April, 1733. She left, born of her, three surviving sons, David,
William, and Patrick, and two
daughters, Isabella and Margaret. From her also he begat another
Patrick, who died on the 12th
of the kalends of January, 1730. and Alexander, who died 8th
May, 1735, and Euphemia, who
yielded to fate 20th May, 1736.
Source: Thomson.
1764 by Thomas Ogilvy of Gaull Esq
Claimant: David Maxwell Esq of Bog-Mill
Source:RT
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