In memory of
WILLm ALLEN FLOWERDEW
writer Dundee
who died 21st January 1853
aged 58 years
and of his wife
MARGARET GRAY
who died 9th February 1836
aged 39 years
also of their eldest daughter ELIZABETH
who died at Munich 20th March 1863
and of their youngest son JAMES GRAY
who died at Portland Oregan 20th July 1872
this stone is raised
as a tribute of affection
by their surviving children
also WILLIAM FLOWERDEW
eldest of the above
who died at SUD EST SEYCHELLES
march 23rd 1891 aged 59
Dundee 29 March 1860, permission granted to the family of the
late William Allan Flowerdew, writer, on payment of £5.5/- to erect a monument
on a small space of ground immediately to the eastward of the late Bailie James
Gray, in terms of minute of a committee of the Town Council of 31 Oct 1859. The
base of the monument not to exceed five feet of Eastward from the said Bailie
Gray's burying ground, nor be more than five feet from North to South. (441-2)
Source:RT
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