I found this among the monumental inscriptions at Auchencairn cemetery, Kirkcudbrightshire. My Edinburgh published dictionary does not have a definition for Ametures. A search of Google showed nothing in context in the following. Does anyone know what the modern definition would be for Ametures? Inscription 9 Erected by Ametures of Auchencairn, to the memory of two unfortunate mariners, who (whose) bodies were found on Rascarol Shore, and interred in this place, on the 26th October 1863. Also of John Leachie, whose body was found on the same shore, and interred here on the 23rd June 1864. In oceans deepest darkest bed the secret slumbers with the dead. It caught my attention as three brothers in the one family (on my tree) from that general area died or were lost at sea with the years of 1823, 1832 and 1848. Maisie