Tombs of the Dundee Howff
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Stone No.704

 

 

 

 

Inscription Front.

Inscription Rear.

 1814

Erected

By

WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER

Shipmaster Dundee

and MARY GALL his spouse;

in memory of their most dutiful

and affectionate son

MARK CHRISTOPHER mariner:

who died the 9th: Nov'r: 1813

aged 22 years. interred here

and their daughter

MARY ANDERSON CHRISTOPHER

died the 3rd Oct 1815 aged 17 years

Also Helen and James Christopher

Who died in infancy.

The above named William Christopher

died 20th January 1817, aged 48 years

Interred here.

 

I Left the seas at Gods command

Whom oft I have been toss'd

but now I fear not rocks nor sands

being on a quiet safe cost

now here I silently doth lie

till Christ my glorious head

once by his quickening voice shall cry

and raise me from the dead

STRACHAN CHRISTOPHER

shipmaster Dundee

son of the late

WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER

who died on the

3rd February 1845