Monument list for Canongate Kirk Church burial ground

Canongate Kirk's Church burial ground, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland

Monument list

no.family surnamefull namebirth
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name
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226WalkerThomas Walker1737871824id: 10819162973225111th April 1824
Alexander Walker1773791852 6th December 1852
John Walker1803361839 13th March 1839
Mary Walker1869 14th October 1869
Janet Scott17461001846 28th March 1846
Elizabeth Scott1734901824 19th September 1824

227WatsonJames Watson1789801869id: 10931163024223121st July 1869
Frances Watson1870 August 1870
Henry George Watson
Robert Digby Watson 15th October

228WatsonJames Watsonid: 10930163023251130th May
Elizabeth Watson1836 26th January 1836
Jane Watson1840 22nd December 1840
Alexander Keith Watson1817 July 1817
David Williamson Watson1817 July 1817
William Henry Watson1802 17th April 1802
Elizabeth Clark1812 January 1812

229WhartonJames Wharton1801491850id: 1090742162840285123rd December 1850
Betsy Wharton1835261861 11th August 1861
Grace Deans Cameron1849281877 10th February 1877
Isabella Cochrane187311874 died 26th October 1874 aged 17mth
Ann Wharton1876 died 5th May 1876 aged 6mth
John Cochrane187131874 20th November 1874
Ann Wharton
James Wharton1845201865 25th October 1865
John Wharton18
James Cameron1830251855 27th July 1855
Grace Deans1799841883 16th December 1883

230WhiterThomas Whiter1763421805id: 1076316295511719th November 1805

231WilkinsWilliam Wilkins1819id: 1090749162842118129th June 1819

232WilliamsHugh William Williams1773561829id: 109071630141831Landscape painter familiarly known as Grecian Williams owing to the peculiar characteristics of his work due no doubt to the influence of his long tour in Greece and Italy Born 1773 on board ship Worked principally in water colour Examples of his work may be seen in the National Gallery Christopher North in the Noctes Ambrosianae makes the shepherd say of Williams:- As for the man himself I like to work on him for he has gotten a gran bald phrenological head The face is at once good natured and intelligent and o' a the painters I ken his manners seem to me to be the maist the manners o a gentleman and a man of the world
Robina Millar1788861874 16th July 1874

233WillisonDavid Willison1713851798id: 10980163042394113th April 1798
Emilia Willison Scheniman1781741855 13th January 1855
Ferdinand Scheniman1767761843 7th February 1843
Hope Scheniman1804541858 28th November 1858
George Willison

234WilsonA Wilson35id: 10907921628663781
T Arnot19
P Comerford38
W Crane20
H Sexton37

235WilsonFrances Wilson1824551879id: 1090748162841136130th November 1879
James Sinton

236WilsonJane Wilson1884id: 10846162988191110th December 1884
Thomas Kennedy
Bailie Murray
Jane Gordon1754511805 14th February 1805
Mary Gordon1747581805 15th October 1805
Robert Murray1729631792 10th March 1792
no.family surnamefull namebirth
year
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237WoodMaria Woodid: 10908561628941311
Thomas Wood1812 6th September 1812

238YI Y1751id: 107261629411531

239YoungAlexander Young1757851842id: 109871630477551December 1842
Georgina Young1802111813 7th October 1813
Henrietta Young1797421839 20th April 1839
William Young
Agnes Orr1722871809 15th June 1809
Charles Chepmell
Joseph Fayrer
Harriet Gore1830451875 28th April 1875
Alexander Dobrée Young Herries1892241916 23rd July 1916
Alexander Young Herries1827911918 28th March 1918
Bethia Marion Herries1867251892 26th March 1892
William Dobrée Herries
William Dobrée Young Herries1866851951 17th July 1951
William Young Herries1794781872 12th February 1872
Saumarez
Amelia Saumarez1800381838 7th December 1838
Thomas Shortt
Sophia Bell1770771847 November 1847

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