Dear George, Many thanks for the information you gave which was interesting. I suppose it was Alexander the son who bought the plots because his father died in 1868. I have been to Auldearn cemetery and copied down as many Walker inscriptions as I could but in the end the bitter wind drove me away. Given that Alexander didn't look married in 1870s, I wonder why he should have bought twelve plots. Perhaps for future generations. Would you have any information about Ann Macarthur Souter, and her daughter Hamilton Campbell who married William Barclay, the well-loved minister of the free church at Auldearn? They too are all buried in Auldearn, in the enclosure for Brodies and Dunbars. Ann Macarthur was the Macgillivray heiress! Many thanks, Jane >Hi Jane > No this did not mean that they were Mormon. >I do not have much information for you except that sometime in the >1870's Alexander bought an awful lot of burial plots in Auldern Church >burial ground. > Plots 128,129,130,131 > Plots 151,152,153,154 > Plots 179,180,181,182 >I do not know if he ever filled them but I'm sure there must be someone >in there. >I have Alexander in the 1851 census for Auldearn aged 52, daughter Ann W >aged 1, his wife Elizabeth aged 25, son John aged 2. > There are quite a few Tullochs' in Auldearn around the same time. > Regards > George > > >-- >George D. Christie > " Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse > to better " >