http://www.webspawner.com/users/griersonorigins19/index.html This might help clear up some things for some of those persons who have never seen these records: Grierson History - Page 20 Quoted below are the extracts from Memorials of St Michaels written by William M'Dowall and printed by Adam & Charles Black of Edinburgh in 1876. a) Between the Western Wall and the footpath eastwards. Quote - To AGNES McBURNIE, relict of JAMES GRIERSON of DALGONER; THOMAS GRIERSON 0f Larbreck, their son, died 8th May, 1774, aged 65; and the spouse of the latter, ELIZABETH WARD, a table tombstone near the Hannahfield monument is devoted, which is neighboured by another bearing the name of their son, THOMAS [GRIERSON], died 14th May, 1798, aged 27. The deceased were of the same family as the Griersons of Lag, their common ancestor having been GILBERT [nee MacGregor] GRIERSON, second son of the Celtic thane [11th feudal Lord of MacGregor] Malcolm Dominus de Macgregor, who about five hundred years ago settled in Dumfriesshire. - Unquote b) Southern Wall and Walk Quote - In memory of JEMIMA GRIERSON, aged 10 years, & JANE GRIERSON, aged 24, and their mother, JEAN BARRON, died at Liverpool, [England] 26th October 1856, aged 55 - Unquote c) Western Wall Quote - SAMUAL GRIERSON, (Baker) & (Brewer), died 26th September 1832, aged 38, with three of his children, including JAMES [GRIERSON], a (Medical Student), cut off at 17 - Unquote d) Parallel with the Southern Walk Quote - JOHN GRIERSON, (Innkeeper), died 30th November 1843, aged 41 - Unquote Quote - EDWARD GRIERSON, (Joiner), died 18th July 1865, aged 75; it commorates also his sons, WILLIAM [GRIERSON], ROBERT [GRIERSON] & RICHARD [GRIERSON], who died in boyhood, ALEXANDER [GRIERSON], who died at 26, and two other children, who died in infancy. Mr Grierson erected many buildings on his own account; and an extensive range of houses built on Corbelly Hill by his son JOHN [GRIERSON] is named GRIERSON'S TERRACE. - Unquote e) Interior Sections - Number 2 Quote (I have to include other data here in order to make sense of it) - Many years before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, the Dyers were numerous enough in Dumfries to constitute a guild of their own; but before the end of the 17th Century they seem to have been amalgamated with the Tailors' Incorporation. These ancient litsters (as they were termed) were trade progenitors of the Armstrongs and the Shortridges of our own day, did not as a rule deal in fancy colours. With them "true blue" was the prevailing tint, and home-grown wool its chief recipient in the shape of yarns for the spinning wheel or substantial cloth woven by hand-loom weavers-the humble prelude of the tweed fabrics for which our Burgh has come to be so famous. The REBECCA GRIERSON whose name appears on the stone just noticed was the daughter of ("a wabster guid") who lived at a period when this primitive woollen trace was still flourishing, and who may have turned out "blue bonnets" innumerable, and must have litstered lots of hoddan-grey for the better-class burgesses of the district. Fast and true he must have been in his social relationships not less than in the colours of his trade, if the following inscription on his humble monument be not over-coloured : "Here lies interred the remains of JOHN GRIERSON, (Dyer), Dumfries, [Scotland] who departed this life on the 27th January, 1797, in the 86th year of his age. Esteemed by all who knew him as a kind husband and tender parent, a sincere friend, and honest man." Married first to REBECCA FERGUSON, who departed this life March 22nd, 1755, aged 42, "a humble Christian, a sincere friend, an affectionate wife, and a tender-hearted mother ;" he afterwards wedded SUSANAH CAIRNS, who survived him 10 years, and of whom her children are represented as saying "Reader, she feels her loss no more : her dust is commingled with his. She waits, like him, the rewards of eternity - a mother whom they who not attest her virtues can only remember with reverence and regret" - Unquote. f) Behind the Church Quote - GILBERT GRIERSON died 12th January, 1800, aged 50, with JANET ANDERSON his spouse. - Unquote Quote - MARYANN GRIERSON, spouse of JOSEPH GRIERSON, mason, died 5th July 1842, aged 29; and of JAMES [GRIERSON] their son, died at Hanley, Staffordshire, 8th January 1846, aged 28. - Unquote. g) The Martyrs' Stones Quote - The tombstones in St Michael's churchyard, erected in memory of WILLIAM GRIERSON and William Welsh, two martyred Covenanters - Unquote. [Both done in by (Sir) Robert Grierson of Lag, "Auld Lagg." (There are a few pages giving the background, history, trial and reason for the above the Martyrs; Stones. If you wish to read them, let me know). Quote - The next stone commemorates WILLIAM GRIERSON also executed 2nd January, 1667, the versified epitaph running thus : "Under this stone lo, here doth ly Dust sacrificed to tyranny ; Yet precious in Immenull's sight Since martyr'd for His Kingly right, When he condemns these hellish druges, By sufferage saints shall judge their judges" - Unquote h) The North Wall Quote - A stately Gothic ediface marks the burying ground of JOHN GRIERSON, (Joiner), & indicates three blanks in his family circle. AGNES GRIERSON died at 12, JESSIE CRAIG GRIERSON at 4 and MARY McKAY GRIERSON at 10, his youthful children, being named in the inscription. - Unquote i) The Inner Sections Quote - MATILDA GRIERSON, died 28th March 1874, aged 35 - Unquote Quote - JOHN GRIERSON, of Muirside, Holywood, who died there 31st December 1874, aged 71 - Unquote. ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.tqci.net --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by mail.tqci.net]