Kirkyard Monumental Inscriptions

Gargunnock Village History .....and other things

NAME	GRAVE NUMBER(s)
Abercromby	85
Adie	135
Allen	184
Allison	27
Anderson	106, 146
Atkinson	183
Bain	62, 63, 65, 66, 92
Barr	26, 99
Baxter	145
Beck	149
Bell	161
Bernard	127
Bevis	104
Birrel	142, 42
Bonthrone	169
Bowie	114
Broun	221
Brown	31, 117, 118, 196, 200
Bryce	45, 129
Buchanan	7, 166
Burns	116
Cairney	168
Cameron	85
Campbell	174
Carrick	87
Carson	159
Cassels	143
Caution	229
Chisholm	61, 115
Christie	50
Christison	206
Chrystal	100, 101
Connel	1
Connel-Rowan	1, 2
Coutts	179
Cowan	185
Cowbrough	39, 90, 102, 118
Craik	121
Crawford	117
Cunningham	105
Cunninghame	201
Dalrymple	1
Davidson	102
Dewar	197
Dodds	180
Doig	178
Dow	69
Downie	154
Dropper	59
Duncan	210
Dunlop	115, 116, 172, 176
Eadie	164
Elder	88, 113
Evitts	67
Fairlie	54
Ferguson	65, 76, 124, 151, 188
Findlay	67
Fleming	75
Forrester	62, 64, 153
Forsythe	79, 200
Fraser	199
Fulton	74
Gibson	39
Glason	36

NAME	GRAVE NUMBER(s)
Gordon	9a
Goreham	60
Gourlay	122
Graham	55, 86
Graham-Watson	2a
Gray	128, 156, 197, 198
Grey	191, 192
Hamilton	5
Hardie	157
Harvey	177
Hodgeson	127
Hunwicks	217
Inglis	163, 164
Jack	88
Jamieson	109, 208
Jenkins	132, 192
Johnson	25, 201
Karighan	131
Kay	146
Kay	197, 198
Keir	196
Kelly	135
Kennedy	61, 121, 151
Kerr	27, 56
Lang	38, 107, 108, 164
Laurie	204
Law	28
Lawson	87
Leckie	57, 73, 209
Liddel	130
Loch	187
Louder	21
Mackieson	209
Mailer	96, 129, 133
Makieson	225
Marshall	25, 68
Martin	119
Matson	225
Maxton	164, 216
McArthur	47, 109
McCallum	43
McCallum	168, 169, 220
McCulloch	163
McEwan	46
McFarlane	89, 119, 126, 128, 198
McGlashan	192
McGowan	141, 148, 159
McGregor	29, 77
McIntyre	75
McLaren	101, 132, 133, 152, 188
McLeary	183
McLeish	216
McLennan	152
McNab	221
McNair	137, 177, 178, 179
McNaughton	131, 214
McNee	101
McNeill	15, 112
McNie	118, 143
McPhee	112
McQueen	54
Menzies	28
Miller	77, 78
Miller	137

NAME	GRAVE NUMBER(s)
Michel	45
Mitchell	14, 15, 26, 46, 223
Moir	39
Moon	60
More	66, 89
Morrison	178
Mortimer	81
Murdoch	36, 37, 38, 87, 101, 136, 146, 153, 160, 161
Murphy	148
Myles	229
Nelson	29
Nimmo	33
Ogelbe (Ogilvie)	136
Ogilvie	202
Parlan	192, 193
Parlane	191
Paterson	14, 56, 57, 58, 113, 197
Paton	94
Patterson	55, 67, 103, 104, 105, 194
Penman	28
Philp	89
Prentice	210
Ramsay	106
Ready	223
Reid	217
Reilly	47, 199
Richardson	69
Ritehardson	160
Robb	91
Robertson	31, 68, 80, 208
Ronald	108
Rorie	23
Rowan	1
Russell	157
Saffrey	9
Sands	107, 130
Sharp	98
Shaw	141
Shirray	79
Silver	184
Simpson	40
Sinclair	145
Sorley	112
Stark	100
Stevenson	176, 180
Stewart	58, 59, 94, 172
Stirling	3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 77, 111
Strachan	133, 174
Strang	40, 220
Tod	15
Travis	217
Turnbull	63, 105
Turnbull	105, 142, 147, 195
Turner	98, 99
Walker	208
Ward	187
Warden	205
Watson	87, 134, 136, 202
Watt	76
Wilson	165
Wingate	103, 147
Wingzet	122
Wright	193
Yuill	145

OLD KIRKYARD SURNAMES

All genealogists are interested in monumental inscriptions (MIs) and books do exist which detail, in shorthand form, pre-1855 MIs. For Gargunnock I have drawn up a database of all 229 gravestones in the old kirkyard (plus about 100 in the lower graveyard) containing word-for-word inscriptions.

Below is a list of surnames drawn from that database of and also a list of initials which tend to appear on the very oldest stones. Contact me with the ones you’re interested in and I’ll email the detailed inscriptions or photos. The numbering system is my own and differs from the Mitchell one and also from the Stirling Council Lair Records. Reconciling them is a job for another day!

Click on the thumbnails below to view at larger scale. The maps can be downloaded via the right click menu.

INITIAL	GRAVE NUMBER(s)
(B)H	144
(M/H)M	144
A?	72
AB	72
CF	140
AF	83
AG	175
AK	224
AM	11, 41, 84, 105, 114, 155
AMc	213
AR	17
AS	114
AT	71
AW	171
BN	228
CD	71
CF	140
CG	175
CS	227, 228
CS	228
DB	83
DG	150, 182
DR	170
EL	12, 13, 32
EM	35, 41, 84, 181
EMc	44, 70
EMcC	222
EY	72, 124
EY	124
GM	41
GP	22
HF	123
HM	72
HR	69
I(E or F)	71
I(G)R	226
IA	82, 228
IB	10, 22, 72, 83, 114, 124
IF	71, 72, 123, 124, 222
IG	84, 114
IH	53
IM	35, 37, 53, 70, 71, 82, 84, 114, 124, 226
IMc	41
IN	222
IP	32, 105, 194
IR	69, 203
IS	17, 218, 219
IT	37, 69
IT	226
IU	123
IW	22, 158, 203, 207
IY	72

INITIAL	GRAVE NUMBER(s)
IZ	195
JB	51, 158
JC	24, 48, 49, 175, 224
JG	182
JH	181
JJ	125
JK	24, 53
JM	12, 13, 37, 41, 44, 189
JMc	34
JR	37
JS	110
JT	181
LR	203
M?	69, 194
MB	19, 34, 37, 53, 114, 123, 124
Mc(E/F?)	194
MC(G)	35
MD	69
MF	170, 189, 218, 219
MG	37
MH	158
MJ	155, 213
MK	215
MM	19, 123, 150, 227
MP	83, 125
MS	22, 175
MT	51
MW	105
MW	162
PD	19
R(M)	144
RG	114
RM	215
RP	105, 194
RW	203
TB	171
TG	17
TH	162
UH	227
UN	227, 228
WA	18
WB	171
WH	158
WM	37
WR	69
WS	222
WW	20, 22

KIRKYARD INITIALS

Of less interest to anyone other than diehard genealogists are the most ancient gravestones with only initials on them and perhaps a date. But at the same time they may have other symbols carved on them which might be of interest.

Sketches, as shown left, may be seen in Alison Mitchell’s book Stirlingshire MI - Stirling West. Pre-1855. A4, 218pp. available from the Scottish Genealogy Society Price: £14.00

For details of the private Laird’s graveyard at Leckie click here

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