Celia, Did you write down any info on a John MacDougall and a Mary MacDermid while at the cemetary at the Round Church? Christine Harenberg Geary mail <celia_geary@infogen.net.nz> wrote: I have been all around that graveyard by the round church at Bowmore. There were some fallen stones but not many, and I agree that most are later stones and include people who died before 1870 in some cases. It is a well laid out cemetery but I was only looking for McDougalls or Browns at the time. I did notice a multiple grave for some men who died in a boating tragedy. I found it a peaceful place and just loved the whole ambience of all of Islay. Celia. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helen Campbell" To: Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 12:19 AM Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] Pictures of Islay - September, 2006 > Thanks Nancy MacLarty for your Islay photos. I doubt if I'll ever get there > so I really appreciate the photos you and others have put on websites. > Otherwise I would only ever have seen the views connected with commercial > sites. I look at all the photos very closely. They have given me a good idea > of the area some of my ancestors lived in. > > I am curious about the gravestones/monuments in the Round Church churchyard > at Bowmore. A recent answer to a posting on the Renfrew mailing list by > Nivard Ovington suggests that gravestones generally 'were for the somewhat > better off'. I can understand that particularly in the industrial and mining > areas of Renfrew and Lanark where incomes were poor for many people. > > However, many of the gravestones/monuments shown in the churchyard at > Bowmore are more than simple headstones. They are substantial monuments > which must have cost a bit. Who would they all be for? Former businessmen? > Farmers? Would the cost have been a great burden on families? Was there a > loss of face issue if a substantial monument was not erected? Were the > monuments made on Islay or brought from somewhere else? None appeared to be > leaning over as happens in other old cemeteries. > > Perhaps other listers may be able to explain. > > Robert Campbell in Brisbane > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.3/473 - Release Date: 10/12/2006 > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message