Plean Churchyard Monumental Inscription Index An A-Z Index of names inscribed on all existing, legible stones Plean Churchyard is situated on Main Street (A9), Plean. www.memento-mori.co.uk 1
Whether monuments or gravestones are very grand and ornate or are the humblest of stones tucked away in some forgotten corner of a Churchyard, they represent part of our heritage and although etched in stone, their inscriptions are disappearing at an alarming rate. Whilst some may still be standing, others have either toppled or have been laid flat, all eventually suffering from the elements, becoming so weathered or eroded that their inscriptions have faded or at worst, disappeared completely. The care and attention once given to tending that special place long gone shrubs and weeds taking over, obscuring or even hiding a once prominent site. In many old Churchyards, gravestones are removed or relocated to assist in the maintenance of the burial ground or because the land is up for re-development and can end up as nothing more than a path. Monumental Inscriptions or gravestones are far from being the permanent records our forefathers hoped would last forever so I hope my efforts over the past years in photographing and transcribing some of the old and not so old Churchyards, Cemeteries and Burial Grounds in Stirlingshire and a few surrounding areas may help to preserve this valuable information before much of it is lost forever. Photographs and complete Monumental Inscriptions available from info@memento-mori.co.uk For details on prices, how to order etc., see Page 8 From the inscription one can see the parents and their children, also that at least one, even if their only daughter, was married. Ages at death can assist in determining not only years of birth, but can indicate the time span over which children were born. On this particular stone, by using only the information on the inscription, the first child s birth (John) would have been in 1851, the last child (Samuel) in 1867, so this couple s family were born over at least a 15 year period. This information provides enough detail to make internet searches both faster and more economical particularly as the Marshall Family would appear on both the 1851 and 1861 Scottish Census Returns. This stone shows the common practice of repeated use of two particular forenames i.e. John and James. 2 Erected by William Marshall In memory of his children JOHN died in 1853 aged 2 years JOHN died in 1855 aged 2 years JAMES died 20 th August 1857 aged 2 years JAMES died 8 th July 1871 aged 21 months And his son SAMUEL MARSHALL Died 3 rd August 1888 aged 21 years And his son WILLIAM MARSHALL Died 19 th September 1898 aged 38 years Also his daughter MARION MARSHALL Wife of Alexander Rankin Died 25 th March 1901 aged 36 years The above WILLIAM MARSHALL Died 9 th June 1901 aged 74 years Also his wife JANET ROBERTSON Died 8 th December 1910 aged 84 years
Plean Churchyard Index Where possible and legible, Maiden Names and Married Names have been listed as separate entries, e.g. Smith, Jane (nee Jones) - Married Name being Smith, Maiden Name or nee, Jones Jones, Jane (Smith) - Maiden Name being Jones, Married Name, Smith Appearing throughout each Index are the letters (DN). This refers to a Newspaper Death Notice which indicates a person is interred in a specific location. If the text appearing in the Index is in bold italics, no matching stone has been found. 3 Date of Age at Name Death Death 1 AITKEN, Harriet (nee Ritchie?) 10.03.1963 92 2 ALLAN, Thomas 1861 75 3 ARCHIBALD,? 1879 75 4 ARTHUR, John 1873 73 5 BAULD, James 1865 81? 6 BIRNIE, David 30.06.1914 70 7 BLACKIE, John 1864 72 8 BOAG, Robert 1864 81 9 BOWIE, William 1852 81 10 BRODIE, John 1872 96? 11 BURNS, Christina 13.10.1880 59 12 BURRELL, George 1851 85 13 CAIRNS, Cathrine (nee McGregor) 23.03.1863 53 14 CAIRNS, Mary (Maltman) 20.04.1892 49 15 CAIRNS, Thomas H. 06.01.1883 8d 16 CAIRNS, William 23.12.1872 72 17 CANT, David 1875 77 18 CHERRY, James 1876 62 19 CLYDE, Robert 1877 78 20 CONGLETON, Alexander 1874 70 21 COOK, Archibald 1878 83? 22 DAWSON, George 1876 66 23 FINDLAY, John 1864 77 24 FOGGO, John 1814 70 25 FORSYTH, Jean 14.08.1881 83 26 FORSYTH, John 13.01.1864 92 27 FOTHERINGHAM, Elizabeth 11.11.1906 85 28 FOTHERINGHAM, Isabella 04.08.1927 75 29 FOTHERINGHAM, John 22.01.1904 30 FOWLER, Joseph 13.07.1874 38 31 FRECKLETON, Lee (DN) 03.02.1901 70 32 GILCHRIST, Agnes (nee Kirkwood) 11.04.1882 77 33 GILCHRIST, William 18.02.1874 71 34 GILLESPIE, John 21.07.1892 49 35 GILLESPIE, William 17.07.1886 47 36 GLASS, Agnes (nee McKay) 26.12.1904 76 37 GLASS, Jessie 05.02.1878 14 38 GLASS, Neil (DN) 07.04.1907 77 39 GLASS, Neil 26.02.1907 40 40 GRAHAM, Charles 1876 77 41 GRAINGER, Mary Reid (nee Ritchie) 1899
42 GREEN, John 1875 89 43 HALKETT, Maggie 1876 10m 44 HALKETT, Margaret (nee Stobo) 03.08.1877 30 45 HAMILTON, James 1848 78 46 HAMILTON, John 1862 79 47 HAMILTON, John 1875 65 48 HOGG, Charles 20.09.1886 60 49 HOGG, Charles 14.07.1888 9 50 HOGG, Charles 07.01.1912 59 51 HOGG, Christina (nee White) 07.10.1913 79? 52 HOGG, James 1821 30 53 HOGG, James 05.03.1902 87 54 HOGG, Jane (nee Jack) 16.07.1872 79 55 HOGG, William 14.10.1859 40 56 HOPE, Alison (nee Watson) 29.01.1870 61 57 HOPE, John 18.11.1881 71 58 HUTCHISON, John 1848 80 59 HUTTON, Alison (nee Little) 14.09.1890 79 60 HUTTON, David 07.07.1879 76 61 HUTTON, Eben 19.12.1909 69 62 HUTTON, Helen (Weir) 06.07.1904 55 63 HUTTON, Janet (nee MacGregor) 16.03.1889 45 64 INDER, William 1864 88 65 INGRAM, Peter 21.06.1839 67 66 JACK, Jane (Hogg) 16.07.1872 79 67 JAMIESON, William 11.12.1841 76 68 JOHNSTON, James 1875 73 69 JOHNSTON? Jane(t) 70 JOHNSTON, John 71 JOHNSTON?, John 16.??.???? 72 JOHNSTON?, John Pa...? 05.01.???? 73 JOHNSTON?, Mina B. H. 19.02.???? 32 74 JOHNSTON?, Violet 75 KIDD, Duncan 1848 83 76 KIDD, Jane (Fotheringham) 28.04.1864 59 77 KIRKWOOD, Agnes (Gilchrist) 11.04.1882 77 78 LAIRD, Annie (nee Phillp) 20.04.1886 44 79 LAIRD, Mitchell 26.01.1896 82 80 LITTLE, Alison (Hutton) 14.09.1890 79 81 LOCKHART, Thomas 1861 89 82 MACKAY, Andrew 1861 82 83 MALTMAN, Mary 09.10.1902 32 84 MALTMAN, Mary (nee Cairns) 20.04.1892 49 85 MALTMAN, William 20.05.1914 69 86 MEIKLEJOHN, William 1864 79 87 MERCER, Christina (nee Burns) 13.10.1880 59 88 MERCER, John 29.06.1871 52 89 MITCHELL, John 14.05.1841 74 90 MORTON, Thomas 1862 79 91 MUNRO, Neil 1873 93 92 MURDOCH, William 18.09.1862 54 93 MacGREGOR, Janet (Hutton) 16.03.1889 45 94 McCULLOCH, Agnes (nee Wyllie) 14.05.1897 30 95 McCULLOCH, Robert 04.11.1905 41 96 McGREGOR, Cathrine (Cairns) 23.03.1863 53 97 McKAY, Agnes 26.12.1904 76 98 McLAREN, Hugh 1852 75 99 McLEAN, Andrew 1850 84 100 McNAB, Robert 1849 69 4
101 McNEILL,? 102 NELSON, James 1877 84 103 NICOL, Thomas 1873 90 104 PENDER, James 1876 88 105 PHILLP, Annie (Laird) 20.04.1886 44 106 RAE, James 1849 97 107 REID, Jane 1868 21 108 REID, Mary (Ritchie) 05.02.1886 56 109 RITCHIE, Elizabeth Smith (Yeats) 1897 110 RITCHIE, Harriet (Aitken) 10.03.1963 92 111 RITCHIE, Janet Hardie (Binnie) 1885 112 RITCHIE, John Reid 1899 113 RITCHIE, Mary Reid 1899 114 RITCHIE, Mary (nee Reid) 05.02.1886 56 115 RITCHIE, William 18.06.1909 87 116 RITCHIE, William 1859 117 RITCHIE, William 1886 118 ROSS, Alexander 1865 72 119 RUSSELL, John 1851 89 120 SHERWOOD, Ann (Simpson) 28.08.1874 121 SIMPSON, Ann (nee Sherwood) 28.08.1874 122 SIMPSON, John 19.04.1874 71 123 SMELLIE, Michael 124 SMITH, Barnard 1862 86 125 STOBO, Margaret (Halkett) 03.08.1877 30 126 STRANG, William 1852 83 127 TAYLOR, William 1876 80 128 THOMSON, Andrew 1861 78 129 TURNBULL, Janet 03.1919 130 TURNBULL, Margaret 06.1894 131 TURNBULL, Robert 09?.06.1873 57 132 UNKNOWN 133 UNKNOWN 1842 134 UNKNOWN 135 UNKNOWN 136 UNKNOWN 137 UNKNOWN, William 1853 69 138 WANDS, James 02.02.1884 73 139 WANDS, Jane (nee Kidd) 28.04.1864 59 140 WATSON, Alison (Hope) 29.01.1870 61 141 WEIR, Helen (nee Hutton) 06.07.1904 55 142 WHITE, Christina (Hogg) 07.10.1913 79? 143 WYLLIE, Agnes (McCulloch) 14.05.1897 30 144 YEATS, Elizabeth Smith (nee Ritchie) 1897 5
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How to order Photographs & Monumental Inscriptions Please contact info@memento-mori.co.uk with your request Photographs (or set of photographs) will be sent by e-mail on receipt of payment through Prices Price per photograph (*or set of photographs) 5.50 GBP each (by e-mail) *Depending on the legibility/amount of detail on each stone. In some cases a single photograph will show the entire stone and the inscription will be readable whilst in others, due to either the size of the stone/amount of information/multiple sections or panels/illegibility etc., a set of photographs have been required. Accompanying each photo or set of photos will be a transcription of the full Memorial Inscription. In some instances, a copy of the lair or grave layout plan may be available, indicating the position of the grave, also, if possible, verification of the section and lair/plot number. Please Note: No guarantee can be given as to the accuracy of information transcribed from Monumental Inscriptions. http://memento-mori-scotland.blogspot.co.uk/ 8