The following persons
are buried in No 438 and the adjoining lair beside those
mentioned on the other stones
DAVID LOW merchant Dundee born 1725 died August 1797
ELIZABETH JAMIESON or LOW his wife, daughter of GILBERT JAMIESON merchant Dundee
and ELIZABETH STRACHAN, born may 1731 died August 1793
JANET LOW their daughter born 28th August 1753 died unmarried December 1805
PATRICK HUNTER merchant Dundee born 1737 died September 1807
JANET JAMIESON or HUNTER his wife, sister of ELIZABETH JAMIESON or LOW
born June 1735 died January 1785
ELIZABETH REID widow of HENRY MACTHOMAS or THOMAS farmer at Belhevie, Flisk, and buried at
Monimail, born 1730 died June 1818
GEORGE THOMAS or THOMS merchant and Bailie of Dundee son of HENRY THOMAS
and ELIZABETH REID born June 1768 died 19th March 1831
ROBERT son of GEORGE THOMS born 26th July 1807, died 24th December 1807
CHRISTINA daughter of GEORGE THOMS, wife of JAMES LOW merchant Dundee
born 23rd January 1809 died 7th February 1842
CHRISTINA THOMS LOW their infant and only child died 22nd Febr 1842
ISABELLA daughter of GEORGE THOMS and wife of CRAWFORD WALKER
wine merchant Dundee, sister of the above PATRICK HUNTER
born 23rd May 1774 died unmarried 24th August 1847
and ELIZABETH HUNTER
daughter of the above PATRICK HUNTER and widow
of the above GEORGE THOMS born 17th March 1770 died 13th October 1856
erected by
Vice Admiral GEORGE HUNTER MACTHOMAS THOMS of Aberlemno
Sheriff of Counties of Caithness, Orkney and zetland Burgess of Dundee
great grandson of the above PATRICK HUNTER HENRY MACTHOMAS of THOMAS
and ELIZABETH REID
REAR: Jamieson, Hunter, Thoms.
P.H. Thoms Esqr Banker Dundee produced a letter of the following
letter "Torquay Devonshire 25th March 1842 S. David Pitcairn son of the late
Alexander Pitcairn merchant in Edinburgh and Elizabeth Low hereby certify that
Mrs Elizabeth Hunter or Thoms and Mrs Thomas Hunter both resident in Dundee are
the nearest akin residing in this the Parish to the late Mr David Low of Dundee,
my maternal grandfather and that I know no other person or persons besides the
said Mrs Elizabeth Hunter or Thoms and Mrs Thomas Hunter in the town of Parish
of Dundee who have any right or are entitled to claim the occupancy of the
burying ground which belongs to the late Mr David Low and for that I hereby
gratify
in the name of my brother John Pitcairn and my sister Elizabeth Pitcairn as well
as for myself, that the said Mrs Elizabeth Hunter or Thoms and her children, and
the said Mrs Thomas Hunter, have our full permission to occupy the burying
ground which belonged to our grandfather the said David Low deceased. (signed)
David Pitcairn, Minister if Erie and Rendall".
Source:RT
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