Here is a page with information on the burial places within St Magnus It may not be exactly what your looking for but makes interesting reading. http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_059/59_239_251.pdf I am sure that some of those plaques on the walls relate to Sinclair's, I tried to take some photographs when I was there but they never turned out. Willie Sinclair 2008/9/24 Mike Clouston <mcc@mikeclouston.co.uk>: > Bruce Stewart wrote: >> Thanks Mike, >> >> have just found reference to Adam in Appendix 2, Robert Earl of Orkney >> by Peter Anderson, don't know why >> I forgot this information anyway seems he went to Orkney and died >> there having spent most of his life in Scotland!...Now another >> question.....at the time did these people actually get buried inside >> the church?...often >> you see people of note buried in stone coffins inside etc or is this >> just show? and he was actually buried outside somewhere?... >> >> Cheers and thanks >> Bruce >> > > No idea where Adam, or any of the others whose tombstones are in the > Cathedral are buried. > What looks like a tomb for Dr. John Rae is just a memorial - he is > actually buried outside in the kirkyard. Until very recently his grave > and stone were sadly neglected. > Sorry! Not much help. > -- > Regards > Mike > ------------------ > List Archives, information on contacting list administrator, Subscribing and UnSubscribing can be found at: > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/ORKNEY.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORKNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >